Ryan Tannehill threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns to outduel Aaron Rodgers as the Tennessee Titans beat the Green Bay Packers 27-17 on Thursday evening.
Tannehill seemed a lot sharper in his second sport again after lacking two video games with an injured ankle. He went 22 of 27 and had one interception as the Titans (7-3) received for the seventh time in eight video games. Green Bay (4-7) have misplaced six of seven.
Rodgers went 24 of 39 for 227 yards with two landing passes to rookie Christian Watson, a 14-yarder to shut the primary quarter and an eight-yarder within the third quarter. That adopted Watson’s three-touchdown efficiency in a 31-28 time beyond regulation victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Watson grew to become the primary Packers rookie since Max McGee in 1954 to have a number of landing catches in consecutive video games.
The Packers restricted Tennessee’s Derrick Henry to 87 yards and a landing on 28 carries – a 3.1-yard common – however the Titans nonetheless posted season highs in factors and yards (408) due to a powerful passing sport. Henry even received into the act by throwing a three-yard bounce cross to Austin Hooper for a landing. Treylon Burks, the Titans’ rookie first-round choose, had one of the best sport of his younger profession with seven catches for 111 yards.
Tennessee led 7-6 on the finish of the primary quarter and then dominated the second, working 27 performs to the Packers’ six and outgaining Green Bay 91 yards to 17.
Tennessee began the quarter with a drive that lasted over 10 minutes however didn’t end in any factors as a result of Quay Walker stuffed Henry for a two-yard loss on fourth-and-one. Tennessee had the ball for 18 performs, the Titans’ longest scoreless drive since not less than 2000.
But the Titans pressured a punt, received the ball again on Green Bay’s 41 and prolonged their result in 14-6 on Henry’s four-yard landing run with 32 seconds left within the half. That was the primary of three straight landing drives for the Titans.
Henry’s dashing TD was his tenth of the season, the fifth straight season he’s reached that mark. The solely different gamers to have not less than 10 landing runs in 5 straight seasons are LaDainian Tomlinson, Adrian Peterson, Shaun Alexander and Michael Turner.
Watson’s second landing of the evening helped Green Bay slim Tennessee’s benefit to 20-17 late within the third quarter, however the Packers’ offense did nothing the remainder of the sport.
The Titans prolonged the lead and scored their first fourth-quarter landing of the season when Hooper opened the interval together with his 16-yard catch from Tannehill. The play was initially dominated an incompletion however was overturned on replay.
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