{"id":863315,"date":"2026-09-28T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863315\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:16:13","slug":"nfl-week-3-grades-patriots-stumble-to-an-f-commanders-earn-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863315\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 grades: Patriots stumble to an ‘F,’ Commanders earn ‘A’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus, two teams earn ‘A+’ grades after superb offensive performances, and another ‘F’ makes its way into the discussion<\/p>\n

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20 min read<\/p>\n

The third week of the NFL<\/a> season has turned into upset Sunday around the NFL. There have been 15 games played so far in Week 3, and the underdog has won seven of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Steelers<\/a> (+3.5) recovered a Joe Burrow<\/a> fumble to seal a 30-27 win over the Bengals<\/a>The Browns<\/a> (+2.5) are TIED FOR FIRST PLACE in their division after beating the Panthers<\/a> 21-18The Colts<\/a> (+1.5) used a 53-yard field goal in the final seconds to beat the Texans<\/a> 19-17The Commanders<\/a> (+8.5) pulled off the SHOCKER of the day by stunning the Seahawks<\/a> 33-31.\u00a0The Raiders (+4.5) managed to stay undefeated with a wild 35-27 win over the SaintsThe Broncos (+2.5) came back from a 16-0 halftime deficit to stun the Rams 30-26 on Sunday night\u00a0And let’s not forget about the Falcons<\/a> (+4.5), who destroyed the Packers<\/a> 35-14 on Thursday night<\/p>\n

So how did each of those teams grade out? Let’s find out by looking at all the grades from Week 3, starting with an underdog Cowboys team that looked like it could pull off an upset before suffering a total collapse in the final seven seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ravens (2-1) 34-31 over Cowboys (1-2) in RioBroncos (2-1) 30-26 over Rams (1-2)Vikings (3-0) 23-16 over Buccaneers (0-3)49ers (3-0) 36-30 over Cardinals (1-2)Raiders (3-0) 35-27 over Saints (1-2)Bills (3-0) 24-16 over Chargers (0-3)Jaguars (2-1) 35-6 over Patriots (1-2)Steelers (2-1) 30-27 over Bengals (2-1)Commanders (1-2) 33-31 over Seahawks (2-1)Colts (1-2) 19-17 over Texans (0-3)Chiefs (3-0) 24-10 over Dolphins (0-3)Giants (2-1) 12-7 over Titans (0-3)Browns (2-1) 21-18 over Panthers (1-2)Lions (2-1) 31-24 over Jets (1-2)Falcons (1-2) 35-14 over Packers (1-2), Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plus, two teams earn ‘A+’ grades after superb offensive performances, and another ‘F’ makes its way into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7144,15973,1327,15353,15354,1807,6256,95719,14389,118575,3687,31571,1822,1799,60209,7820,47384,4057,1810,63177,57760,1826,5701,14387,1804,4058,3686,1811,68063,27558,15944,15358,20022,1808,1813,1817,64187,14388,364333,1236,52107,31111,68052,6337,57500,46791,68033,1322,31117,14383,1917,1815,977,5702,349,61657,1821,1321,15357,8852,117071,99,8853,1805,3851],"class_list":["post-863315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-alec-pierce","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-bijan-robinson","tag-bryce-young","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-cam-skattebo","tag-cam-ward","tag-cameron-dicker","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chuck-clark","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-cooper-rush","tag-denver-broncos","tag-derrick-harmon","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-detroit-lions","tag-dominic-zvada","tag-drake-london","tag-drake-maye","tag-garrett-wilson","tag-geno-smith","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jadarian-price","tag-jahmyr-gibbs","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-jayden-daniels","tag-jaylen-warren","tag-joe-burrow","tag-jordan-love","tag-josh-allen","tag-josh-downs","tag-justin-herbert","tag-kain-medrano","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-keshawn-williams","tag-keenan-allen","tag-kenyon-sadiq","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-malik-willis","tag-marcus-mariota","tag-mason-graham","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-michael-penix-jr","tag-myles-garrett","tag-najee-harris","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nico-collins","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sam-darnold","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-spencer-shrader","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-trevor-lawrence","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863315","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=863315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}