{"id":22996,"date":"2025-09-22T04:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22996"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:06:59","slug":"nfl-week-3-grades-results-browns-get-high-mark-by-shocking-packers-bengals-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=22996","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 grades, results: Browns get high mark by shocking Packers, Bengals fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>                <span class=\"MediaShortcode-credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Week 3 grades!<\/p>\n<p>The third week of the NFL season has turned into one of the wildest weeks of the year. During Sunday&#8217;s action, there were NINE non-offensive touchdowns scored. If you&#8217;re wondering how that happened, here&#8217;s the breakdown:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four pick sixes<\/li>\n<li>Two blocked field goals returned for a touchdown<\/li>\n<li>Two punt return touchdowns<\/li>\n<li>One fumble return TD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This marks the first time in NFL history where there has been at least two blocked field goals returned for a touchdown, at least two punt return touchdowns and at least two pick sixes all on the same day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of those blocked field goals came in Cleveland, where the Browns pulled off the most stunning win of the day with a 13-10 upset win over the Green Bay Packers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what kind of grade are we going to give the Browns? Glad you asked. Let&#8217;s get to the Week 3 grades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Cleveland 13-10 over Green Bay<\/h2>\n<h2>Kansas City 22-9 over N.Y. Giants<\/h2>\n<h2>Seattle 44-13 over New Orleans<\/h2>\n<h2>San Francisco 16-15 over Arizona<\/h2>\n<h2>Chicago 31-14 over Dallas<\/h2>\n<h2>L.A. Chargers 23-20 over Denver<\/h2>\n<h2>Indianapolis 41-20 over Tennessee<\/h2>\n<h2>Minnesota 48-10 over Cincinnati<\/h2>\n<h2>Pittsburgh 21-14 New England<\/h2>\n<h2>Philadelphia 33-26 over L.A. Rams<\/h2>\n<h2>Tampa Bay 29-27 over N.Y. Jets<\/h2>\n<h2>Washington 41-24 over Las Vegas<\/h2>\n<h2>Carolina 30-0 over Atlanta\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Jacksonville 17-10 over Houston<\/h2>\n<h2>Buffalo 31-21 over Miami (Thursday)<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Welcome to the Week 3 grades! The third week of the NFL season has turned into one of the wildest weeks of the year. During Sunday&#8217;s action, there were NINE non-offensive touchdowns scored. If you&#8217;re wondering how that happened, here&#8217;s the breakdown:\u00a0 Four pick sixes Two blocked field goals returned for a touchdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7272,7845,350,6379,949,876,4084,6751,778,6694,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-22996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-fail","11":"tag-grades","12":"tag-high","13":"tag-mark","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers","16":"tag-results","17":"tag-shocking","18":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}