GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Jordan Love threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns, and the Green Bay Packers defeated the Washington Commanders 27-18 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Tight end Tucker Kraft caught six passes for a career-high 124 yards to help the Packers go 2-0 for the first time since 2020. Love and Kraft\u00a0connected for an 8-yard touchdown\u00a0with 8:57 left to thwart the Commanders\u2019 comeback attempt.<\/p>\n
Love went 19 of 31 to lead a Packers offence that was playing without injured linemen Zach Tom and Aaron Banks. Love’s other touchdown pass was a 5-yarder to Romeo Doubs in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
Washington (1-1) gained just 11 yards in the first quarter and didn\u2019t reach the end zone until scoring a pair of touchdowns in the final period. This could be a costly defeat for the Commanders, as running back Austin Ekeler\u00a0injured his right Achilles tendon\u00a0in the fourth quarter and defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr. was carted off the field with a quadriceps injury in the second period.<\/p>\n
Jayden Daniels was 24 of 42 for 200 yards with touchdown passes of 20 yards to Zach Ertz and 10 yards to Deebo Samuel.<\/p>\n
The Packers have won their last seven home matchups with Washington, which hasn’t beaten the Packers on the road since a 20-17 victory at Milwaukee County Stadium in 1988. Washington\u2019s last win at Lambeau Field was a 16-7 decision in 1986.<\/p>\n
Green Bay built a 14-3 halftime lead by putting together two touchdown drives of 90-plus yards.<\/p>\n
Doubs’ touchdown capped a seven-play, 96-yard drive that included a 57-yard completion to Kraft, plus a 14-yard scramble by Love on third-and-9 from Washington\u2019s 19.<\/p>\n
Josh Jacobs made it 14-0 with a 2-yard touchdown run to finish a 10-play, 92-yard march that featured a 37-yard completion to Malik Heath, who did an outstanding job of keeping both feet inbounds while making a catch at Washington\u2019s sideline. Jacobs finished with 84 yards on 23 carries.<\/p>\n
Washington gained 23 yards on its first three series before getting on the board with a 51-yard field goal from Matt Gay, who later missed kicks of 58 and 52 yards.<\/p>\n
After Brandon McManus\u2019 22-yard field goal made it 17-3 in the third quarter, Washington cut the margin to 17-10 on Ertz’s touchdown catch with 13:45 remaining. But the Packers reached the end zone on their next series, and McManus added a 56-yard field goal later in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Samuel’s touchdown closed the scoring with 2:53 left.<\/p>\n
Commanders: TE John Bates and WR Noah Brown left with groin injuries. CB Jonathan Jones hurt his hamstring.<\/p>\n
Packers: OT Zach Tom (quadriceps) and OG Aaron Banks (ankle\/groin) didn’t play. WR Jayden Reed injured his shoulder in the first quarter while making a 33-yard touchdown catch that was nullified by a penalty.<\/p>\n
The Packers honoured wide receiver and 2025 Hall of Fame inductee Sterling Sharpe in a halftime ceremony. Sharpe played for the Packers from 1988-94.<\/p>\n
Commanders: Host Las Vegas on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n
Packers: Visit Cleveland on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Jordan Love threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns, and the Green Bay Packers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-137777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}