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National Football League results | Sunday

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Packers 25, Bengals 22, OT

CINCINNATI — Mason Crosby hit a 49-yard field goal in overtime after missing three straight attempts, lifting the Green Bay Packers to a wild win over the Cincinnati Bengals.

The typically reliable Crosby missed potential winners with 2:12 and then 3 seconds left in regulation, and missed another attempt in overtime before finally winning it. Heading into the game he was 44 of 46 on field-goal attempts since the start of the 2019 season.

Crosby, who missed an extra-point earlier in the game and also made three field goals, came in having converted all six field-goal attempts and 11 PATs this year.

The Bengals’ Evan McPherson also missed kicks that could have won the game, with 26 seconds left in regulation and again in overtime.

The Bengals (3-2) tied the score late in the fourth period. Ja’Marr Chase made a nice catch on third-and-6 from the Packers 36 for 19 yards, and two plays later Joe Mixon bounced right for an 8-yard touchdown run. Joe Burrow hit Tee Higgins in the back of the end zone for the 2-point conversion with 3:27 left.

Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes to move into fifth place on the all-time list, finishing 27 of 39 for 344 yards and an intercepti­on. Davante Adams had 11 catches for a career-high 206 yards as the Packers (4-1) won their fourth straight since losing the opener to New Orleans.

Burrow was 25 for 38 for 260 yards and took a beating from the Green Bay defense. He threw scoring passes to Samaje Perine and Ja’Marr Chase.

Buccaneers 45, Dolphins 17

TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady threw for 411 yards and five touchdowns, Antonio Brown became the fastest NFL player to 900 receptions, and Tampa Bay rolled past Miami.

Brady threw for more 400 yards with five TDs in the same game for the first time in his 22-year career.

Brown scored on receptions of 62 and 4 yards, joining Julio Jones, Jerry Rice, Torry Holt and Andre Johnson as the only players in league history with 12,000 career receiving yards in fewer than 150 games. The 33-yearold receiver extended the NFL’s longest active streak with at least one catch to 141 consecutiv­e games and also became the fastest to 900 career receptions on his first catch of the day.

Brown reached the milestone in 143 career games. Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison was the previous fastest at 149.

Cardinals 17, 49ers 10

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Arizona improved to 5-0 for the first time since 1974, using a stellar defensive performanc­e to beat San Francisco.

DeAndre Hopkins hauled in a difficult 9-yard touchdown catch with 5:13 remaining, hanging onto the ball despite tight defense from San Francisco’s Josh Norman. That gave the Cardinals a 17-7 lead, enough of a cushion to close out the win.

Kyler Murray completed 22 of 31 passes for 239 yards. Hopkins caught six passes for 87 yards.

Niners rookie quarterbac­k Trey Lance had an up-and-down first start, making some impressive plays with his arm and feet. But the San Francisco offense converted 1 of 5 chances on fourth down.

Lance finished 15 of 29 passing for 192 yards and one intercepti­on. He also led the team with 89 yards rushing.

Saints 33, Washington 22

LANDOVER, Md. — Jameis Winston connected on a Hail Mary for one of his four touchdown passes to help New Orleans beat Washington, a bounce-back victory that came at a cost with two more injuries.

Winston took every snap at quarterbac­k for the first time this season, a necessity after Taysom Hill suffered a concussion while trying to catch a pass in the second quarter.

Winston completed a 72-yard touchdown pass to Deonte Harris, who departed with a hamstring injury. He also connected with Marquez Callaway on the 49-yard Hail Mary TD on the final play of the first half, found Callaway wide open from 12 yards out and sent Washington fans to the exits with a pass to Alvin Kamara that turned into a 19-yard score.

Bears 20, Raiders 9

LAS VEGAS — Justin Fields threw his first career touchdown pass, and Chicago’s defense largely shut down Las Vegas’ high-powered offense.

Damien Williams rushed for a touchdown in the Las Vegas debut for the Bears (3-2).

Derek Carr passed for 206 yards and Josh Jacobs rushed for a late touchdown in the second straight loss for the Raiders (3-2) — their first with fans in the stands at 2-year-old Allegiant Stadium.

Jesper Horsted caught the first TD pass by Fields, who went 12 of 20 for 111 yards in the touted Ohio State rookie’s third career start — his first since being named the Bears’ No. 1 quarterbac­k by coach Matt Nagy. The Bears’ 32nd-ranked offense managed just 252 yards, but Chicago’s defense allowed three points in the first 50 minutes.

Khalil Mack led the Bears’ defensive dominance of his former team with eight tackles and a sack of Carr, his good friend, on a 2-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter.

Cowboys 44, Giants 20

ARLINGTON, Texas — Dak Prescott threw for three touchdowns the day before the one-year anniversar­y of his severe ankle injury in the same stadium against the same opponent, and Dallas beat New York.

The already injury-plagued Giants lost running back Saquon Barkley to an apparent ankle sprain in the first quarter and quarterbac­k Daniel Jones to a concussion in the second quarter.

After a woozy Jones was taken off on a cart, New York (1-4) pulled even at 10-all on backup QB Mike Glennon’s first snap of the season, a fourth-down handoff to Devontae Booker from the 1.

Dallas (4-1) has won four games in a row since a loss to Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay in the opener.

Prescott had scoring tosses of 49 yards to CeeDee Lamb and 24 yards to Amari Cooper before star running back Ezekiel Elliott caught a pass in the flat and high-stepped into the end zone for a 4-yard score.

Jones was injured when he was tackled just shy of the goal line by rookie Cowboys linebacker Jabril Cox on a bootleg from the 1.

Steelers 27, Broncos 19

PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisbe­rger threw for 253 yards and two touchdowns, rookie Najee Harris ran for a career-best 122 yards and Pittsburgh beat Denver to snap a three-game losing streak.

Riding the kind of balance that’s been rare during a sluggish opening month, the Steelers handed the Broncos (3-2) a second straight loss.

Denver fell behind by 18 points in the third quarter before making it close behind quarterbac­k Teddy Bridgewate­r, who started after spending the week in the NFL’s concussion protocol. Bridgewate­r completed 24 of 38 passes for 288 yards and two fourthquar­ter touchdowns. The Broncos’ rally ended when Bridgewate­r was intercepte­d in the end zone on fourth down.

Vikings 19, Lions 17

MINNEAPOLI­S — Greg Joseph made a 54yard field goal as time expired, and Minnesota topped winless Detroit after Lions coach Dan Campbell successful­ly called for the go-ahead 2-point conversion try with 37 seconds left.

Joseph made four field goals, including a career-best 55-yarder, as the Vikings (2-3) casually played the field position game until the extra-safe strategy nearly cost them a musthave victory.

After Joseph’s 49-yard attempt with 3:17 remaining strangely fell short, the Lions (0-5) went the other way for Austin Seibert’s third field goal to pull within 16-9.

Eagles 21, Panthers 18

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jalen Hurts ran for two second-half touchdowns and Philadelph­ia rallied from a 12-point deficit to beat Carolina and snap a three-game losing streak.

After T.J. Edwards blocked a Carolina punt, Hurts scored on a 6-yard run with 2:38 left to give the Eagles their first lead of the game.

Carolina’s Sam Darnold was intercepte­d three times, twice by Darius Slay, and sacked three times as the Panthers’ offense struggled against an Eagles defense that allowed 83 points and 851 yards in its previous two games.

Darnold’s effort to bring Carolina (3-2) back in the final 2 1/2 minutes ended when he was picked off by Steven Nelson along the left sideline as he threw under pressure. The Eagles (2-3) ran out the clock from there to hand Carolina its first loss at home.

Titans 37, Jaguars 19

JACKSONVIL­LE, Fla. — Derrick Henry ran for 130 yards and three touchdowns, Kevin Byard returned a fumble for a score and Tennessee sent Jacksonvil­le to its 20th consecutiv­e loss.

Henry padded his NFL rushing lead as the Titans (3-2) rebounded from an overtime stunner at the New York Jets and avoided consecutiv­e losses to winless teams.

Jacksonvil­le (0-5) moved into sole position of the second-longest skid in NFL history, six shy of tying the record Tampa Bay set in 1977 over its first two seasons as an expansion team. The franchise’s latest debacle came eight days after coach Urban Meyer was captured on camera with a woman dancing near his lap at an Ohio bar, behavior team owner Shad Khan called “inexcusabl­e.”

The Jaguars fumbled on the third play of the game. Byard scooped it up and ran 30 yards for a score. Jacksonvil­le also missed an extra point; dropped what should have been an intercepti­on and could have been a pick-six; and missed a 53-yard field goal. Center Brandon Linder suffered what appeared to be a significan­t leg injury on an unsuccessf­ul fourth-and-goal play.

Patriots 25, Texans 22

HOUSTON — Rookie Mac Jones threw a touchdown pass to tie the game in the fourth quarter, and Nick Folk’s 21-yard field goal with 15 seconds left lifted New England over Houston.

New England (2-3) used a 15-play, 85-yard drive capped by Folk’s fourth field goal of the game to take the lead. The drive was kept alive when Maliek Collins was flagged for roughing the passer on third-and-18 early in the possession.

Jones threw for 231 yards with a touchdown and an intercepti­on as the Patriots ended a two-game skid. He connected with Hunter Henry on a 13-yard touchdown with about nine minutes remaining.

Texans rookie Davis Mills threw for a career-high 312 yards with three touchdowns to bounce back from last week’s terrible performanc­e at Buffalo, where he tied a franchise record with four intercepti­ons.

But he was unable to move the ball late as the Texans (1-4) lost their fourth straight after beating Jacksonvil­le in the opener.

Jets 27, Falcons 20

LONDON — Matt Ryan threw for 342 yards and two touchdowns, including the first score for rookie Kyle Pitts, and Atlanta closed out New York in the NFL’s return to London.

The Falcons (2-3) built a 20-3 halftime lead and eventually secured the victory despite allowing the Jets to stick around by losing two fumbles.

But Zach Wilson and the Jets (1-4) had trouble moving the ball. Coming off his best game of the season last week against Tennessee, Wilson finished 19 of 32 for 192 yards and no touchdowns with one intercepti­on.

Pitts, taken by Atlanta two spots after Wilson at No. 4 overall in the NFL draft in April, had his best game with nine receptions for 119 yards and his first NFL TD.

Bills 38, Chiefs 20

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Josh Allen threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score, sending the Buffalo Bills to a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC title game rematch delayed more than an hour by lightning.

Allen finished with 315 yards through the air, and Micah Hyde returned a rare intercepti­on of Patrick Mahomes 26 yards for another score, as the Bills (4-1) beat the turnover-prone Chiefs (2-3) for only the second time in their last seven meetings.

Mahomes finished with 272 yards passing and two touchdowns to go with two intercepti­ons and a lost fumble. He also wound up being the leading rusher for the Chiefs with 61 yards as they struggled to get going offensivel­y.

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