Chicago Bears<\/a>, who lost their quarterback to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\nIn the fourth quarter, Williams\u2019s injury cast a pall over the Soldier Field crowd on a gloomy, wet day along the lakefront. The Bears (1-1) trailed by three points but had first-and-goal from the Vikings\u2019 six-yard line with less than eight minutes to go. Williams kept the ball \u200cand sprinted to his left with ample green space in front of him.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, Williams stumbled and fell to his knees on a \u200bnon-contact play. He rolled over a few times in pain until the Bears\u2019 medical staff attended to him. He appeared to fight emotions as he was carted from the sideline \u2060to the locker room. The Bears said Williams suffered a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean you could kind of see in real time. I\u2019m actually happy it\u2019s nothing with the knee,\u201d Bears coach Ben Johnson said. \u201cThat was my first inclination. But yeah, a hamstring can be pretty damaging as well. We\u2019ll see how bad it is tomorrow and we\u2019ll go from there. It\u2019s quickly you\u2019ve got to turn the page.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wentz completed 11 of 20 passes in \u2060his 100th career start \u2060as Minnesota (2-0) won \u200bdespite failing to score a touchdown. Justin Jefferson had three catches for 55 yards.<\/p>\n
New Orleans Saints 24\u201317 Baltimore Ravens<\/p>\n
Tyler Shough scored on a fourth-down sneak with 1:28 remaining, and the New Orleans Saints (1-1) rallied to victory over the Baltimore Ravens (1-1). New Orleans had first down from the two before a penalty and a costly incomplete pass. On fourth-and-goal, the Saints decided against a short field goal, and Shough was ruled to have scored on a sneak. The play was upheld after a review. The Ravens, who didn\u2019t have a first down on either of their previous two drives, made it to the New Orleans 37, but Lamar Jackson\u2019s deep pass was intercepted by Julian Blackmon with 13 seconds left.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Jaguars 13\u201320 Denver Broncos<\/p>\n
The Denver Broncos snapped the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 nine-game regular-season winning streak. Jaylen Waddle and Jonah Coleman led a big second-half comeback for the Broncos. Waddle had eight catches for 138 yards, and Coleman scored a three-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter. The Broncos trailed 13-3 but responded with a field goal and a touchdown pass from Bo Nix to Nate Adkins before Coleman\u2019s tiebreaking TD. The Jaguars had built a 13-3 lead with a touchdown run and two field goals. The Broncos tightened their defense and secured the win. Both teams are 1-1 after two games.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati Bengals 20\u20136 Houston Texans<\/p>\n
Joe Burrow threw two touchdown passes to Ja\u2019Marr Chase and the Cincinnati Bengals are off to their second straight 2-0 start after notching \u2060a road victory over the Houston Texans. Burrow completed 20 of 31 passes for 207 yards and Chase had seven receptions for \u206075 yards while posting \u2060his 14th career \u200bouting of two or more touchdown catches. Chase had just two catches for 12 yards in Week 1. CJ Stroud was 30-of-55 passing \u2060for 353 yards for the Texans (0-2), who lost at home for the second straight week. Dalton Schultz \u200bestablished career bests of 12 catches for 140 yards \u200cfor Houston, who lost \u200cdespite registering five sacks.<\/p>\n
Miami Dolphins 13\u201335 San Francisco 49ers<\/p>\n
Christian McCaffrey became the fourth-fastest player in the Super Bowl era with 100 career touchdowns, Brock Purdy played a near-perfect game and the San Francisco 49ers (2-0) overwhelmed the Miami Dolphins (0-2). The 49ers showed no signs of fatigue after beating the Los Angeles Rams in their opener in Australia and have started the season with back-to-back wins of at least 20 points for the first time in franchise history. They scored touchdowns on their first five drives of the game. Miami were dominated after spending the week by practicing in nearby Napa after losing their opener in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Steelers 3\u201320 New England Patriots<\/p>\n
TreVeyon Henderson ran for a 39-yard touchdown in his season debut, Eli Ponder added a 19-yard fumble recovery for a score and the New England Patriots\u2019 defense smothered Aaron Rodgers on the way to victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers (1-1). With the victory, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel avoided just the second 0-2 start of his eight-year coaching career. Romeo Doubs had a 63-yard catch in the third quarter to set up Andy Borregales\u2019 second field goal of the game. Drake Maye finished 14 of 22 for 208 yards and an interception. Rodgers struggled to deal with the Patriots\u2019 defensive pressure. The 42-year-old fumbled twice, including the one that led to Ponder\u2019s score.<\/p>\n
Green Bay Packers 20\u201317 New York Jets (OT)<\/p>\n
The Green Bay Packers (1-1) overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to snap a six-game losing streak with an overtime win against the New York Jets (1-1). Trey Smack kicked a 26-yard field goal to secure the victory. Jordan Love threw two touchdown passes for the Packers, despite the team committing 14 penalties. The Jets, who also struggled with penalties, couldn\u2019t hold their lead. Geno Smith was sacked twice in overtime, forcing the Jets to punt. Love then led a drive that set up Smack\u2019s game-winning kick.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Eagles 24\u201320 Tennessee Titans<\/p>\n
Jalen Hurts threw a three-yard touchdown pass to Darius Cooper with nine seconds left, and the Philadelphia Eagles (2-0) beat the Tennessee Titans (0-2). The Eagles appeared ready to dominate Tennessee on a hot and steamy Sunday. They opened the game by stringing together three straight drives of at least 11 plays. The Titans sacked Hurts three times and picked him off twice, turning those into 10 points. The second interception set up Joey Slye\u2019s 33-yard field goal with 1:56 left, putting Tennessee up 20-17 before Hurts, who finished with 264 yards passing and two TDs, helped his team to victory.<\/p>\n
Cleveland Browns 23\u201319 Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/p>\n
Deshaun Watson earned at least a few more starts for the Cleveland Browns (1-1). Watson threw two touchdown passes, including a go-ahead 17-yard toss to Blake Whiteheart in the fourth quarter, leading the Browns to a comeback victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-2) in a game that was delayed two hours, 12 minutes because of lightning. The Buccaneers were driving and had a second-and-4 at the Cleveland 28 when the game was suspended at the two-minute warning. When the game finally resumed, heavy rain started falling again, and the Bucs could not pull off the win.<\/p>\n
Carolina Panthers 34\u20133 Atlanta Falcons<\/p>\n
Bryce Young threw for 287 yards and three touchdowns, including two to Darren Waller, Carolina\u2019s Devin Lloyd returned one of his two interceptions for a touchdown and the Panthers (1-1) crushed the short-handed Atlanta Falcons (0-2). The Panthers took their fourth straight win in the NFC South rivalry. Young completed 23 of 36 passes as he improved to 5-1 against the Falcons. He set a franchise record with 448 yards passing in a 30-27 overtime win to cap last season\u2019s sweep. With Cooper Rush at quarterback, the Falcons had more offensive woes. Rookie Jack Strand replaced Rush late in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings 9\u20133 Chicago Bears Carson Wentz passed for 143 yards, Aaron Jones Sr. rushed for 105 yards,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-899435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899435","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=899435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}