NFL week 13: San Francisco 49ers beat Miami Dolphins while Deshaun Watson wins on return from suspension

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The San Francisco 49ers won their large crippled against the Miami Dolphins but mislaid different starting backmost for the play aft Jimmy Garoppolo broke his foot.

Joe Burrow rallied the Cincinnati Bengals to triumph implicit the Kansas City Chiefs successful their play-off rematch, portion Aaron Rodgers led a Green Bay Packers comeback against the Chicago Bears.

Deshaun Watson was booed upon his instrumentality and the Philadelphia Eagles won again to inactive clasp the NFL's champion grounds astatine 11-1.

Several large names went down with injuries, portion determination was besides a uncommon tied crippled arsenic the New York Giants and Washington Commanders could not beryllium separated.

San Francisco near with 'Mr Irrelevant' aft losing 2nd QB to injury

Two of the hottest teams successful the league met successful San Francisco wherever the 49ers had to thin connected rookie Brock Purdy to steer them to a 33-17 triumph implicit the Dolphins to articulation Miami connected 8-4 for the season.

After losing starter Trey Lance earlier successful the season, the 49ers mislaid their 2nd backmost of the play arsenic Garoppolo, who led them to the Super Bowl 3 seasons ago, near the crippled with a breached foot.

With 1 of the champion teams successful the league and holding genuine Super Bowl chances, San Francisco presently person rookie Purdy arsenic their QB. He has the alternatively unfortunate statement arsenic this season's 'Mr Irrelevant' having being chosen with the 262nd and precise past prime of the 2022 NFL draft.

Purdy stepped up beauteous good with 2 touchdown passes but the Niners' defence was again the prima arsenic they bottled up Miami's antecedently flying discourtesy - sacking Tua Tagovailoa 3 times, intercepting him doubly and forcing a fumble.

Burrow digs Bengals retired of occupation again against Chiefs

After beating the Chiefs to a spot successful the past Super Bowl, the Cincinnati Bengals defeated them again arsenic Joe Burrow led a fourth-quarter comeback to borderline retired Patrick Mahomes' broadside 27-24.

It's present 4 wins connected the rotation for the Bengals, who person won their past 3 against the Chiefs and that could beryllium important with some teams acceptable to marque the play-offs again successful the AFC.

"We've inactive got 5 weeks left," said Burrow, who is playing his mode into the Most Valuable Player (MVP) conversation.

"Let's support this bid rolling. This squad knows what it takes to triumph these games. We've been there. It's December. It's clip to abstracted ourselves."

Watson booed upon instrumentality from suspension successful Houston

Controversial backmost Deshaun Watson yet made his belated Cleveland Browns debut aft completing an 11-game ban for violating the NFL's idiosyncratic behaviour argumentation - stemming from an probe into allegations of intersexual misconduct.

The Browns handed Watson a grounds afloat guaranteed declaration of $230m successful the summer, but helium was much than a small rusty arsenic helium made his archetypal NFL regular play quality successful precisely 700 days - aft sitting retired the 2020 play portion with the Houston Texans aft demanding a trade.

His archetypal crippled backmost came against the Texans successful Houston, wherever helium was booed connected astir each drawback successful a half-empty NRG Stadium arsenic the Browns bushed the league's worst squad 27-14.

Watson failed to pb a touchdown thrust though, arsenic Cleveland's defence scored 2 touchdowns and their peculiar teams scored connected a punt instrumentality - the archetypal clip successful 33 years the squad had scored 3 times successful 1 crippled without the discourtesy connected the field.

"They're expected to boo," said Watson, who agreed to settee 23 of the 24 civilian intersexual misconduct lawsuits against him successful the summer. "I'm a Cleveland Brown now, and we're connected the road, truthful they're expected to boo."

Eagles & Vikings triumph again - uncommon necktie betwixt NFC East rivals

There was speech of the Green Bay Packers sitting a struggling Aaron Rodgers, but a sojourn to the Chicago Bears was conscionable what helium needed arsenic helium led an 18-point blitz successful the 4th fourth to triumph it 28-19 - their eighth consecutive triumph implicit their rivals.

Justin Fields gave different awesome show for the Bears, with a sixth consecutive crippled with a touchdown run, but yet again it was not capable arsenic Chicago were officially eliminated from play-off contention portion the Packers cling connected to their slim hopes astatine 5-8.

At the apical of Green Bay's part beryllium the 10-2 Minnesota Vikings, who edged yet different adjacent crippled 27-22 against the New York Jets and are present conscionable a triumph distant from clinching their play-off spot with the NFC North title.

The Vikings are inactive the 2nd effect successful the NFC down the Philadelphia Eagles, who bushed the Tennessee Titans 35-10 led by different Jalen Hurts masterclass - with their ain MVP campaigner throwing for 380 yards and 3 TDs and besides moving different successful himself.

Hurts has shown aggregate ways to triumph games erstwhile steering the Eagles to their 4th 11-1 grounds - their 1949 squad won the NFL Championship portion the 1980 and 2004 Eagles some mislaid the Super Bowl.

The Washington Commanders and New York Giants had to settee for a 20-20 necktie aft some defences took complaint successful overtime - leaving some good successful the hunt for wildcard spots successful the play-offs.

Jackson wounded stroke for Baltimore

Baltimore Ravens manager John Harbaugh said backmost Lamar Jackson's genu wounded is not season-ending, but it volition inactive beryllium a interest contempt back-up Tyler Huntley scoring a precocious winning touchdown to borderline a 10-9 scrap against the Denver Broncos.

Huntley scored with conscionable 28 seconds near to support the Ravens apical of the AFC North but though he's a prime back-up successful the Jackson mould, Baltimore volition privation their erstwhile MVP backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.

The Seattle Seahawks were besides precocious 27-23 winners implicit the Los Angeles Rams acknowledgment to a career-best show from Geno Smith, who threw for 367 yards and 3 scores.

Elsewhere, the Pittsburgh Steelers bushed the Atlanta Falcons 19-16, the Detroit Lions smashed the Jacksonville Jaguars 40-14 and the Las Vegas Raiders defeated the Los Angeles Chargers 27-20.