Overview
- Jonathan Taylor scored three rushing touchdowns and Daniel Jones passed for 288 yards with two touchdowns in the Week 7 victory in Los Angeles.
- Indianapolis is the AFC’s lone one-loss team and couples league-best scoring at 33.1 points per game with clear defensive gains and a plus-9 turnover margin.
- Taylor leads the NFL with 697 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns through seven games, joining Jim Brown, Priest Holmes and Derrick Henry with three separate three-TD rushing games this early in a season.
- Jones’ career revival includes a 71% completion rate, 1,790 passing yards and 10 touchdowns with three interceptions, and he brushed off skeptics postgame with, “Sounds like y’all didn’t know much.”
- Chargers fallout intensified after the loss, with safety Derwin James ripping the defense’s effort as “trash” and fans questioning the unit despite Jim Harbaugh praising the group’s fight.