{"id":363144,"date":"2025-12-23T05:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:03:07","slug":"brock-purdy-throws-career-high-five-td-passes-leads-san-francisco-49ers-to-win-over-indianapolis-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363144\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Purdy throws career-high five TD passes, leads San Francisco 49ers to win over Indianapolis Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Brock Purdy<\/a> threw a career-high five touchdown passes and Dee Winters<\/a> returned an interception of Philip Rivers\u2019 final pass 74 yards for a score to lead the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> to a 48-27 victory over the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Purdy was 25 of 34 for 295 yards with one interception. Christian McCaffrey<\/a> rushed 21 times for 117 yards and caught six passes for 29 yards and two scores. George Kittle<\/a> had seven receptions for 115 yards and one TD.<\/p>\n

The 49ers (11-4) won their fifth straight to stay in the chase for the NFC\u2019s top seed, one day after clinching a playoff spot by virtue of Detroit\u2019s loss to Pittsburgh. San Francisco also snapped a five-game losing streak in the series, beating Indy for the first time since Jim Mora\u2019s infamous \u201cplayoffs\u201d rant in November 2001.<\/p>\n

But 44-year-old Rivers sure didn\u2019t make it easy on San Francisco in his second game back after a five-year layoff. He was 23 of 35 for 277 yards, two TDs and the one interception. The Colts (8-7) have lost five straight overall and six of their last seven as their playoff hopes continue to fade.<\/p>\n

Their loss clinched playoff spots for Buffalo, Jacksonville and the Chargers.<\/p>\n

Rivers opened the scoring with a 20-yard TD pass to Alec Pierce<\/a>, who had four receptions for 86 yards and two scores. Purdy countered with a 22-yard scoring pass to Demarcus Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the Colts fumbled away the ensuing kickoff, Purdy hooked up with McCaffrey for a 2-yard TD pass to make it 14-7 late in the first quarter. Rivers tied the score early in the second by neatly fitting a 16-yard throw to Pierce in a tight window. Purdy broke the tie with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Kittle.<\/p>\n

Indy and San Francisco then traded late field goals and Eddie Pineiro\u2019s 64-yard attempt hit the crossbar as time expired.<\/p>\n

The track meet continued in the second half as Purdy capped the first possession with a 15-yard TD pass to Jauan Jennings<\/a>, making it 31-17.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Taylor<\/a>\u2019s 1-yard TD run early in the fourth quarter cut Indy\u2019s deficit to 34-27, but the 49ers sealed it with a 9-yard touchdown pass to McCaffrey with 7:37 to play and Winters\u2019 interception return with 3:26 to play.<\/p>\n

Injury report<\/p>\n

49ers: Kittle injured his ankle while making a cut during the third quarter, and linebacker Tatum Bethune<\/a> injured his right ankle late in the third quarter. <\/p>\n

Colts: Indy opened the game without either of its starting offensive tackles \u2014 Braden Smith<\/a> (concussion) and Bernhard Raimann<\/a> (elbow) \u2014 then lost center Tanor Bortolini<\/a> with a concussion on the third offensive play of the game. Then they lost starting RG Dalton Tucker<\/a> with shoulder injury in the second half. The Colts also lost DE JT Tuimoloau<\/a> with an oblique injury in the first half. <\/p>\n

Stat sheet<\/p>\n

49ers: Purdy has seven TD passes in the last two games, the most over a two-game stretch by a 49ers quarterback since 2001. … San Francisco has scored in 22 consecutive quarters, its longest streak since 1995.. … For the second straight week, Thomas Morstead<\/a> did not punt.<\/p>\n

Colts: Taylor\u2019s TD early in the fourth gave him 17 rushing scores this season, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Lenny Moore for the second-highest single season total in franchise history. … Indy lost its first game of the season while topping the 20-point mark.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

49ers: Host Chicago on Saturday night in a possible playoff preview.<\/p>\n

Colts: Close out the home schedule Sunday against AFC South leading Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/p>\n

Michael Marot, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Brock Purdy threw a career-high five touchdown passes and Dee Winters returned an interception of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-363144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363144","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=363144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}