\n Packers hold off Lions 31-24, improve to 8-3-1<\/p>\n
Detroit converted a third-and-3 with a 7-yard pass to Williams to the Green Bay 28. Evan Williams<\/a> darted in to stop Gibbs for no gain on a third-and-3 carry.<\/p>\n The Lions went for it on fourth down and turned the ball over on downs at the Packers’ 22 after Williams dropped a crosser. Green Bay punted the ball back to Detroit after Love couldn’t connect with Watson on a third-and-4 pass.<\/p>\n The Lions took over at their 20 after Daniel Whelan’s 72-yard punt bounced twice inside the five and into the end zone for the touchback.<\/p>\n A 18-yard crosser to TeSlaa picked up the initial first down for the Lions. Parsons sacked Goff on the next play for a loss of eight. On third-and-15, Keisean Nixon<\/a> was called for illegal contact for the automatic first down.<\/p>\n Williams gained 44 yards on a crosser to the Green Bay 16. A 6-yard pass to Gibbs on third-and-4 set up first-and-goal at the Packers’ 4.<\/p>\n After Colby Wooden<\/a> deflected a pass at the line of scrimmage, Parsons sacked Goff for a loss of nine yards on third-and-goal from the Green Bay 4. Devonte Wyatt<\/a> was injured on the play and carted to the locker room.<\/p>\n Jake Bates made a 31-yard field goal to pull the Lions within one score, 31-24, with 2:59 remaining.<\/p>\n Starting at their own 35 after the touchback, Jacobs carried the ball twice to force Detroit to burn its first two timeouts while gaining five yards. On third-and-5, Love hit Watson for eight yards on an out for the first down.<\/p>\n The Lions used their third timeout with 2:38 left after a 3-yard Jacobs run. The clock ran down to the two-minute warning on Jacobs’ 4-yard carry to the Detroit 45.<\/p>\n Love and Watson couldn’t connect on third-and-3, but Green Bay went for it on fourth down after a timeout and Wicks came down with a 16-yard completion. The Packers kneeled out the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers hold off Lions 31-24, improve to 8-3-1 Detroit converted a third-and-3 with a 7-yard pass to Williams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[162206,11977,51652,92921,13041,99],"class_list":["post-317498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-green-bay-packers-at-detroit-lions-2025-reg-13","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-in-game-updates","tag-news-national-feature","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}