{"id":375478,"date":"2025-12-28T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375478\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:33:10","slug":"crawshaw-broncos-and-taylor-bears-clinch-division-in-week-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375478\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawshaw, Broncos and Taylor, Bears clinch division in week 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a quiet Saturday for Australian punters Jeremy Crawshaw and Tory Taylor, but it ended up being a day to celebrate, as both their respective teams &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> &#8211; clinched their divisions.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/los-angeles-chargers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> losing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> on Saturday, the Broncos clinched the AFC West division, after their Christmas Day victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> keeping their season alive with a win in Green Bay, the Chicago Bears clinched the NFC North division over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos and Bears have been two of the surprise teams in the NFL this season, led by some fantastic quarterback play by Bo Nix and Caleb Williams respectively.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\/news\/daniel-faalele-baltimore-ravens-keep-playoff-hopes-alive-win-green-bay\/a3cb41ff710c9c44714b5b8a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Faalele, Baltimore Ravens keep playoff hopes alive with win in Green Bay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But both teams have had to lean heavily on their Aussie punters at times as well.<\/p>\n<p>For Denver, Jeremy Crawshaw has been one of the best punters in the entire league, totalling 3,286 yards from punts this season, good enough for second in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who has not needed to be called upon as much Crawshaw &#8211; having 16 fewer punts total &#8211; has still been important at times this season, and been effective when called upon, averaging 47.5 yards per punt this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a quiet Saturday for Australian punters Jeremy Crawshaw and Tory Taylor, but it ended up being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-375478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}