Jordan Love makes up for head-scratching pick-six with 66-yard TD pass

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It wasn’t the Green Bay Packers‘ first touchdown so much as the play that set up the score that was the spectacular part.

Still, the 2-yard run with 6:45 left in the first quarter of Sunday’s game at the Los Angeles Rams was running back Josh Jacobs‘ first touchdown as a member of the Packers.

Bounces off the D and runs it in! @iAM_JoshJacobs gets the job done 😤

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The play before it, however, was the one for the highlights.

With three Rams running stride for stride with receiver Jayden Reed, quarterback Jordan Love dropped in a deep ball that Reed hauled in for a 53-yard gain down to the Rams’ 2-yard line.

Reed came into the game as the leading receiver on a Packers team that was without its other two starting receivers on Sunday because of Christian Watson‘s ankle injury and Romeo Doubs‘ suspension.

JORDAN LOVE. JAYDEN REED.

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Tight end Tucker Kraft topped Reed’s 53-yard catch and with a 66-yard catch-and-run touchdown early in the third quarter to give the Packers a 17-13 lead. Love hit a wide-open Kraft near midfield, and Kraft made his way down the left sideline to score.

Kraft’s 66-yard touchdown was the longest by any tight end this season, topping Brock Bower’s 57-yard touchdown catch earlier on Sunday.

KRAFT WILL NOT BE DENIED.

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