Aaron Rodgers directs a last-minute drive as Green Bay tops Dallas, 35-31.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Aaron Rodgers threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams with 11 seconds remaining, lifting Green Bay over the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 Sunday in another thriller nine months after the Packers’ divisional playoff win on the same field.
Rodgers capped a 75-yard drive in just 1:02.
Adams, active 10 days after leaving the field on a stretcher following a helmet-to-helmet hit that resulted in a suspension for Chicago linebacker Danny Trevathan, had seven catches for 66 yards and two touchdowns.
Dak Prescott had given the Cowboys the lead with an 11-yard run with 1:13 remaining, capping a 17-play drive that lasted almost nine minutes. Dallas (2-3) has already matched its loss total from last season.
Green Bay (4-1) rallied from 15 points down in the first half. There were five lead changes in the fourth quarter, including the Packers going ahead 28-24 on Damarius Randall’s 21-yard interception return for a TD.
Jacksonville beat the Steelers for the first time in a decade by relying heavily on the NFL’s top-ranked pass defense. Rookie Leonard Fournette ran for 181 yards and two touchdowns for the Jaguars, who are over.500 after five games for the first time since 2010 and have already matched their victory total from 2016.
Wentz tossed three scoring passes in the first quarter – 59 yards to Torrey Smith, 11 yards to Zach Ertz and 15 yards to Trey Burton. He connected with Nelson Agholor for a 72-yard TD in the third quarter that left six-time Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson shouting on the sideline.
The Cardinals (2-3) were held to 279 yards.
The jeers started in the first quarter of the Dolphins’ home debut, and soon the crowd was chanting for backup quarterback Matt Moore. But Coach Adam Gase stuck with Cutler, who capped a 58-yard drive with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Jarvis Landry for the tiebreaking score.
Newton was 26 of 33 for a season-high 335 yards.
Vinatieri made four field goals to move into second on the NFL’s career list, one ahead of Gary Anderson (538).
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