Rodgers catches Titans by surprise with TD pass to rookie Watson

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  • Rob DemovskyESPN Staff Writer

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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Five days ago, Christian Watson had zero touchdown catches. Five quarters of shot later, helium had 4 of them.

He followed up his three-touchdown crippled past Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys with different TD successful the archetypal 4th of the Green Bay Packers' Thursday nighttime crippled against the Tennessee Titans.

The past Packers' rookie receiver with astatine slightest 4 touchdown catches successful a play was James Lofton, who had six successful 1978.

And portion this is each caller to the rookie second-round pick, it came connected a play that's aged chapeau for Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers caught the Titans with 12 men connected the tract and floated the shot to Watson connected the near broadside of the extremity portion for a contested drawback implicit cornerback Kristian Fulton.

It was the 17th vocation touchdown walk of Rodgers' vocation connected escaped plays -- either antiaircraft offsides oregon excessively galore men connected the field. It was Rodgers' archetypal specified touchdown of the play and archetypal since past Christmas against the Cleveland Browns. No 1 other has much than 5 specified touchdowns since 2008.

The Titans blocked the other constituent to instrumentality a 7-6 into the 2nd quarter.

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