Highlights of Thursday's National Football League games
Reuters
Published Nov 24, 2017 02:21AM ET
Highlights of Thursday's National Football League games
(The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Thursday's National Football League games:
Los Angeles Chargers 28, Dallas 6
The Los Angeles defense gobbled up the Dallas Cowboys and Philip Rivers did the rest as the Chargers claimed a 28-6 victory at AT&T (NYSE:T) Stadium on Thursday.
Rivers passed for 434 yards and three second-half touchdowns, including a 27-yarder to Tyrell Williams that gave Los Angeles a 16-0 lead late in the third quarter.
Dallas broke a 10-quarter drought without a touchdown early in the fourth when running back Rod Smith powered two yards for a score. Smith's touchdown capped a nine-play, 81-yard march.
But Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott threw incomplete on the two-point conversion attempt and the Chargers maintained a 16-6 lead.
Dallas' offensive woes continued midway through the fourth quarter when Los Angeles cornerback Desmond King returned an interception 90 yards for a touchdown.
Wide receiver Keenan Allen burned the Dallas defense as he caught 11 passes for 172 yards and a touchdown to lead the Chargers (5-6).
Minnesota 30, Detroit 23
Case Keenum threw two touchdown passes to Kyle Rudolph and ran for another, and the Minnesota Vikings extended their winning streak to seven games with a 30-23 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day at Ford Field.
Keenum completed 21 of 30 passes for 282 yards. Latavius Murray gained 84 yards on 20 carries and scored a touchdown for Minnesota. Everson Griffen led the defense with two sacks.
Minnesota (9-2) opened up a three-game lead in the NFC North with five games remaining.
Matthew Stafford passed for 250 yards and two touchdowns and was intercepted once for Detroit (6-5), which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.
Stafford suffered an apparent right ankle injury while throwing a 43-yard scoring pass to Marvin Jones early in the fourth but didn't miss a snap. Jones caught six passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns.
Washington 20, New York Giants 10
Kirk Cousins fired a 14-yard, go-ahead touchdown pass to Josh Doctson with 3:31 left in the game, and the Washington Redskins defeated the New York Giants 20-10 at FedEx (NYSE:FDX) Field.
After a defensive holding penalty wiped out a third-down sack, Washington was given new life on the decisive drive at the New York 48.
Cousins soon hit Jamison Crowder for 17 yards to the 16-yard line, and two plays later, he found Doctson in the corner of the end zone.
Crowder finished with seven catches for a season-high 141 yards and a touchdown, and Washington running back Samaje Perine carried 24 times for 100 yards.
Nick Rose added a 33-yard field goal with 1:49 remaining.
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The win capped a banner Thanksgiving for the Redskins (5-6), as two of the teams ahead of them in the NFC wild-card race -- Detroit and Dallas -- lost.
Cousins was 19-of-31 for 242 yards with two touchdowns and a pick-six.
The Giants (2-9) netted 170 total yards and only 39 in the second half. Eli Manning was 13-of-27 for 113 yards and one interception.
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