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Bucs Fall To Rams 37-32
Rookies Ezekiel Elliott, Dak Prescott Take The Lead For Cowboys
DAK PRESCOTT
Youth is taking over the Dallas Cowboys.
Rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott, the fourth pick in the draft, had the first 100-yard game of his career, finishing with 140 yards on 30 carries, and rookie quarterback Dak Prescott, who was picked 131 spots after Elliott, had the first touchdown pass of his career.
As a result, the Cowboys cruised to a 31-17 victory against the Chicago Bears.
Nobody assumed Prescott, as a fourth-round pick, would put together the type of run he has had through three games. He has not thrown an interception in 99 pass attempts. His first touch- down pass was a 17-yarder to Dez Bryant with 9 minutes, 2 seconds to play to give the Cowboys a 31-10 lead.
Louisville's Lamar Jackson Scores 7 TDs In Rout; Plays No.3 Clemson Saturday
LAMAR JACKSON
Another Saturday meant an- other game with eye-popping numbers for Louisville quarter- back Lamar Jackson.
Jackson did throw a pick in the first half, but his status as the Heisman front-runner is un- changed heading into next week's showdown with ACC foe and fellow undefeated team, Clemson. The sophomore sig- nal-caller accounted for seven touchdowns in leading the Car- dinals to a 59-28 win over Mar- shall to improve to 4-0. He passed for 417 yards (5 TDs) and another 62 as a rusher (2 TDs).
Jackson has 1,301 passing yards (13 TDs) and 510 rushing yards (12 TDs) this season, and he's played in only 11 quarters.
His 25 touchdowns are more than any FBS player has had through four games since at least 2000, per ESPN, and he's on pace to score 75 TDs in the regular season.
This Saturday at 8 p.m., Jackson and Louisville will play powerhouse Clemson. Clemson will be his toughest test yet, but he's already proven him- self against a respected defense, as he torched Florida State a week ago.
Seahawks' Russell Wilson On Knee: 'I'll Be Good To Go'
It seems the NFC South is suffering and struggling for wins this year as last year’s Super Bowl runnerup lost an- other game, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost against a Los Angeles Rams team thought to be offensively challenged.
The Bucs hosted the Rams at Raymond James Stadium, and just when the fans thought the team had turned the corner, they came up on the losing end of 37-32 contest.
The Rams had plenty of help with Ethan West- brook of the Rams returning a fumble 77 yards for a score, and Tavon Austin scoring a 43-yard pass in the fourth quarter. At that point, the game was held up due to lightning for 69 minutes.
Buccaneer quarterback Jameis Winston passed for 405 yards and three touchdowns. He also threw one interception that set up one of two touchdowns by Rams running back Todd Gurley.
The Bucs came out of the gate swinging, with line- backer Kwon Alexander returning an interception 38 yards for a score.
A disappointed and dejected Jameis Winston leaves the field after Sunday’s loss to the Rams.
In the end, it was the Rams defense that held off Winston’s rally in the final seconds of the game.
Buccaneer kicker, Roberto Aguayo, their sec- ond-round draft pick, looked nothing like the can’t miss man he was at Florida State after missing an extra point and a field goal that could have made the difference in the game.
The Bucs (1-2) join the Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints with two loses, and right now, the NFC South leader is the Atlanta Falcons with a 1-1 record.
It’s not going to get any easier for the Bucs this Sun- day as they play host at Ray- mond James to the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos. Kickoff will be at 4 p. m.
Seattle Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wil- son suffered a left knee sprain in the third quarter of the team's 37-18 win over the San Francisco 49ers, and he will have an MRI to deter- mine the severity of the in- jury.
"I don't think it's as severe as it looked, thank God," Wil- son said. "I have to do some tests and check all that stuff out, but walking fine and all that, moving it well. We've got good mobility.
"I'll be good to go."
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Wilson was "most likely" going to be fine.
"He has no intention of thinking anything other than that he is playing," Carroll said. "He sprained his knee a little bit. He was lucky. He was in a bad situation. He knows it too. He lucked out that it wasn't worse. We'll see how he does."
In the third quarter, Wil- son scrambled and tried to stiff-arm 49ers linebacker Eli Harold, but Harold
RUSSELL WILSON
brought him down, and Wil- son's left leg bent awkwardly as he went to the ground.
Wilson missed one snap before coming back in to fin- ish the drive.
"I don't know if I did it on my own," Wilson said. "I told them. They didn't hear me, but I said, 'Guys I'm going back out. See you there.' I don't know if they heard me. I don't know. But I went back out there. So I don't know if you could say I did it on my own or not."
Doctors ran him through a number of tests on the side- line. On the next offensive possession, with the Sea- hawks up 27-3, backup quar- terback Trevone Boykin replaced Wilson.
Cam Newton, Panthers End Trying Week With Collapse Against Vikings
Terrelle Pryor Gets Snaps At QB, WR And Safety For Browns
The Carolina Panthers' 22-10 loss Sunday to the Minnesota Vikings was filled with the kinds of mistakes, penalties and overall poor play that aren't characteristic of a team with hopes of re- turning to the Super Bowl.
It certainly wasn't an ef- fort that brought hope to a city that has been in turmoil since Tuesday's shooting death of a black man by a black police officer.
"This game was not to save lives or change the world,'' tight end Greg Olsen said after seeing Car- olina's NFL-best 14-game home winning streak come to an end. "We wanted our city to feel good today. That’s obvious. Maybe more so than a typical Sunday.''
This isn't to suggest an unusual and intense week filled with protests -- which turned violent on Wednesday night -- only a few blocks from Bank of America Sta- dium are an excuse for Car- olina's play.
The Panthers actually started fast, jumping to a 10- 0 lead with 5:20 left in the first quarter on a 3-yard touchdown run by quarter- back Cam Newton.
But then the wheels fell off. Newton, who arrived for pregame warm-ups wearing
CAM NEWTON
a black T-shirt with a quote from Martin Luther King on the back -- "Injustice any- where is a threat to justice everywhere" -- was sacked in the end zone for a safety.
Then he suffered an ankle injury that forced him to leave for one play. At that point, the NFL MVP had completed all six of his pass attempts. He completed only 15 of his next 29, with three interceptions.
"[We were] running the football extremely well, keep- ing them off balance, and then all of a sudden, you know, after the safety it was good riddance,'' Newton said.
It wasn't just Newton and the offense that col- lapsed. The Vikings returned a punt 54 yards for a touch- down to cut the lead to 10-8 at halftime despite being out- gained 205 yards to 34.
Terrelle Pryor did just about everything for the- Cleveland Browns on Sun- day.
Pryor started the game at receiver and caught eight passes for 144 yards.
He lined up 14 times at quarterback in the shotgun, ran four times for 21 yards and a touchdown and threw five times, completing three.
He also spent a play in the secondary, playing deep safety in case the Miami Dol- phins tried a Hail Mary at the end of the first half.
Pryor finished the Browns' 30-24 overtime loss to the Dolphins with 200 total yards and one running touchdown. Coach Hue Jackson said he'd never seen a player do as much in one game as Pryor did.
"But that's what I expect him to do," Jackson said. "I've been knowing him for a while, and I know what he's capable of doing. He's capa- ble of doing a lot."
With Robert Griffin,
TERRELLE PRYOR
III and Josh McCown both
out with left shoulder in- juries, the Browns started rookie third-round pick Cody Kessler at quarter- back. Jackson decided to mix in some Pryor from the shotgun, letting him run the read-option and taking ad- vantage of his running skills. The idea that came out of ne- cessity might become a Browns regularity.
Pryor played quarter- back at Ohio State and in the NFL for three different teams without great success. A year ago, he decided to move to re- ceiver. One year later, he looks like he's been playing the position his entire life.
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