Rookie Jayden Daniels threw two touchdowns and ran for a score in a very efficient manner, and the Washington Commanders stunned Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals 38-33 on Monday night.
Daniels finished 21-of-23 for 254 yards, and the No. 2 overall in the draft setting the NFL rookie record for completion percentage at 91.3%.
The Commanders (2-1) have scored everywhere without taking a knee at the end of each half and have not punted or turned the ball over in their last two games.
Neither Washington nor Cincinnati missed or turned it over, the first time that has happened during the Super Bowl.
Burrow threw for 324 yards and three scores, but the Bengals (0-3) couldn’t keep up. Cincinnati has gotten off to a rough start since dropping its first 11 games en route to a 2-14 finish in 2019.
Daniels’ first touchdown pass was a 1-yard toss to Trent Scott to start the second half, the second straight game in which the Bengals surrendered a TD to a lineman. And Daniels stayed in the pocket, hit a hit and connected with Terry McLaurin from 27 yards out with 2:10 left for the game-tying score.
Terry McLaurin’s toe-tapping touchdown put the game in Commander. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
In the first half, Washington got rushing touchdowns from Brian Robinson Jr., Austin Ekeler and Daniels.
McLaurin had four 100-yard receptions.
It is reported by the Associated Press.
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