TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Take a bow, Kyle Pitts Sr.<\/p>\n
The Atlanta Falcons tight end caught 11 of his 12 targets for 166 yards and three touchdowns in Thursday’s win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
“That’s great,” Pitts said. “Love scoring, love contributing to this offense and this team. I’m glad I could help enough to get a win.”<\/p>\n
Pitts did more than enough.<\/p>\n
Not only were all his marks career highs, Pitts’ 166 receiving yards were the most by any tight end in a single game this season. His three receiving touchdowns tied for most in the same regard.<\/p>\n
Even more so, Pitts is only the second player in NFL history to have at least 10 receptions for 150 yards and three touchdowns in a Thursday game.<\/p>\n
“Kyle continues to be a great talent when it comes to his ability to separate and run,” Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins said. “Obviously, he’s a big frame, and Zac (Robinson, offensive coordinator) did a great job designing, especially on a short week, ways to get Kyle opportunities.”<\/p>\n
Pitts’ first touchdown came in the second quarter. It was an 8-yard reception. Then, before halftime, he scored on a 17-yard reception. His third and final touchdown happened in the fourth quarter. It was a 7-yard reception that actually had to be reviewed. Officials needed to confirm Pitts was in-bounds for it to be a complete pass. He was.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, it appeared as though Pitts landed on his rear-end before bouncing outside of the end zone.<\/p>\n
“I definitely thought I got the second foot down,” Pitts said. “I didn’t know it was my (butt) cheek, but that helped a lot. The tight end gods. It’s like last year. I kind of got away with one last year. But the tight ends gods. Just Lord, he let me get that third one in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Take a bow, Kyle Pitts Sr. The Atlanta Falcons tight end caught 11 of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43015,15945,115,135,137,136,13104],"class_list":{"0":"post-80991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons-at-tampa-bay-buccaneers-2025-reg-15","9":"tag-kyle-pitts","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-terrin-waack"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}