Tee Higgins made a smart goal-line relocate to score a goal and force overtime and Evan McPherson made a 29-yard basket to seal a 27-24 success Saturday for Cincinnati over the Minnesota Vikings, keeping the Bengals playoff hopes alive without their star quarterback. Higgins captured a 21-yard pass from Jake Browning with under a minute staying in the video game and managed an acrobatic relocate to extend the ball over the objective line and connect the video game at 24. In overtime, a four-yard run from Joe Mixon made it a simple chip shot for McPherson with 3:11 staying. The Bengals (8-6) had actually taken control of at their 41-yard line after stopping the Vikings (7-7) on fourth-and-short. Browning was 29 for 42 for 324 lawns with 2 goals and an interception. He finished passes to 12 various receivers. Mullens, the 4th quarterback to begin a video game this season for the Vikings, passed for 303 backyards with 2 TDs and 2 interceptions. Backup running back Ty Chandler had a career-high 132 hurrying backyards and a goal for Minnesota. Pittsburgh Steelers 13-30 Indianapolis ColtsGardner Minshew tossed 3 goal passes and the Indianapolis Colts hurried for 170 backyards, enhancing their playoff potential customers with a 30-13 win over the drooping Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday. Minshew was 18 of 28 for 215 lawns and matched his profession high for TD passes while leading a Colts offense lacking its normal enhance of playmakers. Leading receiver Michael Pittman Jr left the video game with a concussion, leading rush Zack Moss left with a best arm injury, and previous 2021 hurrying champ Jonathan Taylor (ideal thumb) didn’t play. The Colts (8-6) have actually won 5 of 6 and momentarily moved a half-game ahead of 3 groups for the AFC’s seventh and last playoff area. The Steelers (7-7) dropped their 3rd straight and fell under last location in the rugged AFC North, putting coach Mike Tomlin’s run of 16 straight seasons at.500 or much better in jeopardy. Indianapolis Colts quarterback Gardner Minshew was 18 of 28 for 215 backyards and matched a profession high with 3 TD hands down Saturday. Photo: Darron Cummings/APPittsburgh took an early 13-0 lead behind backup quarterback Mitch Trubisky, however by late in the 4th quarter, the Colts had actually scored 30 successive points and third-stringer Mason Rudolph was slinging passes for the Steelers. Trey Sermon ran 17 times for 88 backyards to lead the Colts after logging just 11 runs this season. Pittman completed with 4 receptions for 78 lawns, offering him 99 catches and the 2nd 1,000-yard season of his profession. Trubisky went 16 of 23 for 169 lawns with one TD pass and 2 interceptions in another awful offending effort for Pittsburgh, which just had 74 lawns hurrying and ended up with 216 overall lawns. Denver Broncos 17-42 Detroit LionsJared Goff matched a profession high with 5 goal passes, 3 to novice tight end Sam LaPorta, and the Detroit Lions routed the Denver Broncos 42-17 on Saturday night. The NFC North-leading Lions (10-4) might clinch an area in the postseason for the very first time given that the 2016 season if other outcomes go their method this weekend. The easiest situation would be a loss or tie by Seattle to Philadelphia on Monday night. avoid previous newsletter promotionafter newsletter promo The Broncos’ hopes of making the playoffs for the very first time because the 2015 season took a hit. Denver (7-7) had actually won 6 of its previous 7 video games to pull within a video game of AFC West-leading Kansas City. Goff and the Lions got better from some bad getaways– losing 2 of 3 video games– with a dominant 2nd quarter. The veteran quarterback, who turned the ball over 8 times in the previous 4 video games, tossed goal passes in the duration to LaPorta, novice running back Jahmyr Gibbs and Amon-Ra St Brown to offer Detroit a 21-0 halftime lead. Denver, on the other hand, were 1 of 6 on 3rd down and had simply 75 backyards in the very first half. Russell Wilson lofted a three-yard goal pass to Lil’Jordan Humphrey midway through the 3rd quarter. The Lions reacted with an eight-play, 75-yard drive that Goff topped with another goal pass to LaPorta. The Broncos had a goal on 4th down negated late in the 3rd when offending lineman Quinn Meinerz was flagged for being offside. Broncos coach Sean Payton continued to shriek at Wilson on the sideline and Denver chose a basket to cut its deficit to 28-10. Wilson, who lost a fumble on his very first ownership, completed 18 of 32 for 223 lawns with a goal pass and a hurrying TD. He was eliminated by backup Jarrett Stidham on an useless last series. Goff was 24 of 34 for 278 lawns, tossing 5 goal passes for the very first time because 2018 when he bet the Rams, and didn’t have a turnover. He signed up with Houston’s CJ Stroud as the only QBs to toss for 5 TDs in a video game this season. The Broncos had actually quit simply 4 goal passes over the previous 6 video games.
NFL roundup: Bengals edge Vikings to improve playoff hopes; Colts and Lions roll
