L.A. RAMS FIRST TO WRAP UP A TITLE

The Los Angeles Rams are NFC West champions.

Tinseltown’s favoured sons improved to 11-1 on Sunday and became the first team this season to clinch its division with a 3016 win at Detroit.

The Rams have won back-to-back NFC West titles for the first time since 1978-79, under head coach Ray Malavasi.

NINE STRAIGHT

Houston won its ninth consecutive game, 29-13 over Cleveland. Second-year QB Deshaun Watson completed 22 of 31 for 224 yards and a TD, without an interception. His first-year counterpart, Baker Mayfield, threw three picks.

CARTED OFF

Two elite players were carted to the locker room early in their Sunday games: Cinci WR A.J. Green (with a foot injury) and Denver CB Chris Harris Jr. (broken fibula).

MAHOMES MAGNIFICENT

Having no Kareem Hunt didn’t slow down the Kansas City Chiefs offence much. In a 40-33 win at Oakland, QB Patrick Mahomes extended his league lead in touchdown passes to 41, with four more, thus joining Peyton Manning and Tom

Brady as the only QBs in NFL history with at least 40 TD throws through 12 games.

EXTRA POINTS

Tom Brady finally passed 1,000 yards rushing in his 19-year career … Indy lost at Jacksonville 6-0 but felt it deserved a final play, well within QB Andrew Luck’s throwing range of the Jags end zone, when TE Erik

Swoope seemed to take a completion out of bounds at the 29. But officials ruled Swoope was pushed backward just before the sideline and did not stop the clock with seconds left. — John Kryk