Colts run up the score on Bills, Bears lose in last seconds

Taylor scores 5 TDS; Colts beat Bills 41-15

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Jonathan Taylor set a franchise record by scoring five times, and took over the NFL lead in both yards rushing and touchdowns, in the Indianapolis Colts’ 41-15 rout of the unraveling Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Taylor scored three times in the first half, including a 23-yard catch, en route to becoming the NFL’S first player with five TDS in in one game since New Orleans’ Alvin Kamara had six TDS rushing in a 52-33 win over Minnesota last Christmas Day.

The Bills (6-4) ceded their lead atop the AFC East, falling a half-game behind New England, which Buffalo will play twice over the next five weeks.

Taylor finished with a season-high 185 yards rushing and four touchdowns and has 1,122 yards this season after beginning the day tied for the league lead with the injured Derrick Henry of Tennessee. Taylor has 14 touchdowns this season, moving ahead of Arizona’s James Conner, who began the day with 12.

Taylor topped 100 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for the eighth consecutive game, matching the NFL’S longest run set by former Colts running back Lydell Mitchell, spanning the 1975-76 seasons, and Ladainian Tomlinson in 2006.

The Colts (6-5) continued their roll by improving to 5-1 in their past six games. The Bills have dropped three of five.

The Colts had four takeaways and took advantage by scoring after two of them to build a 24-7 lead in the first half of a rematch of last season’s wild-card playoff game that Buffalo won 27-24.

The bottom fell out for Buffalo in the second quarter after Michael Badgley capped a 15-play, 58-yard drive with a 36-yard field goal to put the Colts up 17-7 with 2:12 left in the second quarter. Mckenzie fielded the ensuing kickoff and lost the ball untouched while stumbling to the turf at Buffalo’s 13.

T.J. Carrie scooped up the fumble and returned it to Buffalo’s 2. Taylor scored on the next play by diving over a pile.

The Colts extended their run of games with a takeaway to 12, With Bills backup Mitchell Trubisky also throwing an interception, Indianapolis improved its turnover differential to plus-15 and took over the NFL lead from Buffalo, which failed to force a takeaway and had its differential drop to plus-10. Bills K Tyler Bass missed two field-goal attempts. He hit the right upright from 57 yards to close the first half and was wide left on a 49-yard attempt.

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