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Lions respond from pick-six with 61-yard Jameson Williams run

Highlight: Lions respond from pick-six with 61-yard Jameson Williams run

Saturday’s NFC Divisional is turning into Saturday Night’s Main Event with all the exciting action. The latest highlight comes via Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams, taking a reverse from running back Jahmyr Gibbs and going 61 yards for the touchdown. And this was with Teddy Bridgewater in at quarterback after Jared Goff briefly exited the game after taking a hit from Commanders linebacker Frankie Luvu on Washington’s pick-six (a hit that likely should have drawn a penalty).

The Lions badly needed to take back from momentum after the pick-six put them in a 10-point hole. The touchdown now has them down 24-21.

Williams now has 80 total yards (61 rushing, 19 receiving) and a touchdown. The Lions now have 150 rushing yards as a team — Gibbs has 85 yards and a touchdown.

WATCH: Commanders safety Quan Martin with a pick-six vs. Lions

Quan Martin with his first career pick-six vs. Lions.

Terry McLaurin outraced the Detroit Lions on a 58-yard touchdown to give the Washington Commanders a 17-14 lead midway through the second quarter in Saturday’s NFC divisional round matchup.

How would Washington’s defense respond after McLaurin’s touchdown?

Detroit quarterback Jared Goff targeted tight end Sam LaPorta but was too high with the throw, and Commanders safety Quan Martin came away with an easy interception. Martin wasn’t done, though, returning it 40 yards for the touchdown to give Washington a 24-14 lead.

Check it out.

It was Martin’s first career interception returned for a touchdown.

On the play, Washington linebacker Frankie Luvu destroyed Goff on a block near the end zone, knocking him out for the series. It didn’t matter, as the Lions scored anyway when wide receiver Jameson Williams scored on a reverse.

Goff looks OK to re-enter the game.

WATCH: Terry McLaurin outruns Lions on 58-yard touchdown

Terry McLaurin outran the Lions on this 58-yard touchdown.

Do you think Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin heard all that nonsense before the season that he wasn’t a true No. 1 wideout?

McLaurin caught a franchise record 13 touchdowns in the regular season and followed that up with a touchdown in his first playoff win last week over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

How would the six-year veteran respond in Saturday’s NFC divisional round matchup against the Detroit Lions?

Midway through the second quarter, with Washington trailing 14-10, McLaurin took a short Jayden Daniels pass and outraced the Lions secondary to the end zone for a 58-yard touchdown.

Check it out.

McLaurin’s touchdown put the Commanders ahead 17-14. He has three receptions for 75 yards and a touchdown in the first half.

Devaughn Vele’s touchdown catch was brilliant (watch this amazing view)

Devaughn Vele’s touchdown catch against the Chiefs is a highlight of the Broncos’ season and perhaps the best catch of the NFL season.

Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix set a new franchise record on Sunday by completing 17 consecutive passes to begin a game.

His 17th completion came on what was perhaps an ill-advised throw to tight end Adam Trautman in the end zone. The pass was tipped up into the air by two Kansas City Chiefs defenders and then caught by rookie wide receiver Devaughn Vele just before hitting the ground.

Vele did a brilliant job keeping his feet in bounds and securing the catch before it hit the ground. Funny enough, the receiver actually ran the wrong route before ending up with a touchdown catch.

“The trap was working in the back, and I didn’t quite go far enough for him to catch it, but it was tipped,” Nix said after an eventual 38-0 win. “I think it just goes to show you that even though Vele ran the wrong route, he didn’t give up on the play and showed great effort.

“In my opinion, it’s the effort that matters, and it’s the effort that counts. They say all the time for young guys, especially, it doesn’t matter if you mess up, just do it 100 percent of your effort. That’s what Vele was doing. It actually was perfect. I’m glad he did exactly what he did, and he got a touchdown.”

This image does an amazing job capturing how unlikely the catch was:

Here is a zoomed-in angle of the amazing catch:

Vele, a seventh-round pick in the 2024 NFL draft, ended his rookie (regular) season with 41 receptions for 475 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games. The late-round pick appears to have a bright future in Denver.

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WATCH: Highlights from Broncos’ blowout win over Chiefs

The Broncos dominated the Chiefs on Sunday. Here are the highlights from the shutout win.

The Denver Broncos dominated a Kansas City Chiefs backup squad on Sunday in a 38-0 victory at home. The win marked Denver’s 21st shutout in franchise history and second-ever shutout against Kansas City (21-0 in 1984). The blowout marked the first time in the Andy Reid era that the Chiefs did not score any points (with backups or starters).

Check out the game highlights below, courtesy of the NFL’s official YouTube page:

Up next for the Broncos is a road game against the Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. Denver will face Buffalo on Sunday.

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WATCH: Broncos WR Devaughn Vele scores crazy TD on tip drill play

Tip drill! Broncos WR Devaughn Vele scores a TD to give Denver a 21-0 lead over the Chiefs!

Denver Broncos rookie wide receiver Devaughn Vele scored on a crazy tip drill play against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday afternoon.

Here’s video of the play, courtesy of the team’s official Twitter/X page:

Here are more angles of the impressive catch:

Following the score, Denver leads Kansas City 21-0 in the second quarter.

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WATCH: Saints bag critical second-half INT vs. Bucs

Second-year safety Jordan Howden came up with a critical interception during Sunday’s contest between the Saints and the Buccaneers:


The New Orleans Saints have a huge opportunity for an upset against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road Sunday — and they have surprisingly held the momentum all game long.

The highly favored Bucs did start to gain some momentum in the second half, but the Saints responded with an interception off of quarterback Baker Mayfield by second-year safety Jordan Howden, which ended a drive that could have been promising for the Buccaneers.

The ball was tipped by Saints defensive end Carl Granderson, who got a hand up at the line of scrimmage. The Saints led the Bucs, 19-13 at the bottom of the third quarter.

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Jameson Williams, Amon-Ra St. Brown hook (and ladder) up for touchdown

Lions highlight reel: Jameson Williams, Amon-Ra St. Brown hook (and ladder) up for touchdown vs the 49ers

Ben Johnson did it again. The Lions offensive coordinator dove into his bag of tricks to dial up another highlight-reel play for the Lions.

In a season where it feels like it’s been full of them, the Lions come up with another hook-and-ladder play that leads to a touchdown. This time, it was Amon-Ra St. Brown getting the initial reception before pitching the ball to Jameson Williams

The result was a 42-yard touchdown on 3rd and 12 to pull the Lions within one after Jake Bates’ extra point made the score 14-13 (at the time).

It’s Williams’ 7th receiving touchdown of the season and his second touchdown of the game after his 3-yard rushing touchdown.

 

WATCH: Saints use a trick play for their first points of Week 17

From Kendre Miller to Spencer Rattler to Foster Moreau. The Saints got tricky to score their first touchdown against the Raiders:


The New Orleans Saints got on the board early against Las Vegas, and they got creative in the process.

Klint Kubiak doesn’t dig into the trick bag often, but they have done it twice in the last three weeks. Both times they went into that section of the playbook the result was a touchdown.

In the first play of the second quarter, Spencer Rattler tossed the ball to Kendre Miller and gave the look of a generic run play. As Las Vegas sold out for the run, Miller threw the ball backwards to Rattler who found Foster Moreau in the end zone.

This is a role reversal of the last time New Orleans tried trickery. Rattler passed the ball to Cedrick Wilson who then threw the ball to Alvin Kamara for a touchdown score against the Washington Commanders.

Ironically, both of those plays resulted in the first points of the game for the Saints.

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Bo Nix’s pass to Marvin Mims was longest in the NFL (watch this amazing view)

Bo Nix’s touchdown pass to Marvin Mims traveled 67 air yards, making it the longest completion in the NFL this season.

In the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos rookie quarterback launched a deep touchdown pass to wide receiver Marvin Mims to tie the game at 17-17.

From the line of scrimmage to the end zone marked 51 yards, but Nix was deep in the pocket and threw the ball deep into the end zone. His pass traveled 67 “air yards,” marking the longest completion of the 2024 season, according to NFL Next Gen Stats.

It also marked the second-longest “air yards” throw since the NFL starting tracking advanced stats in 2016, only trailing P.J. Walker’s throw to D.J. Moore in 2022 that traveled 67.6 yards.

“[It] was set up off a play action, and he just ran through the defense,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said after the game. “It was a great throw and a great catch.”

Here is the broadcast angle of the play:

And here is a behind-the-end zone view from the NFL’s social media team:

And the All-22 angles:

The catch marked Mims’ second touchdown catch longer than 50 yards this season after he previously hauled in a 93-yard catch and run against the Cleveland Browns in Week 13.

Nix now has 3,454 passing yards and 25 touchdown passes on the year, making him just the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least 3,000 yards and 25 touchdowns as a rookie. Nix also rushed for four scores this year and caught a touchdown, giving him 30 total TDs in 2024.

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