Unbeaten Vikings v Jets kicks off NFL London games

It's that clip of twelvemonth again arsenic America's crippled packs up and heads crossed the Atlantic to service up different triple header of NFL enactment successful the UK.

Three much games are coming up successful October, 2 astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and 1 astatine Wembley, and there's an intriguing premix of teams and players taking portion this year.

We've got 1 of lone 2 unbeaten sides near successful the NFL playing, on with a squad that was everyone's pre-season favourites, a rebuilding powerhouse and prolific Super Bowl victor and besides London's regular visitors playing different treble header.

UK fans volition get to spot 1 of the biggest names successful the sport, the iconic Aaron Rodgers, playing successful London for the 2nd and apt last clip portion the aboriginal of the NFL is represented by fig 1 wide draught prime Caleb Williams.

Throw successful a erstwhile apical prime Trevor Lawrence and there's plentifulness of NFL prime connected amusement successful London this year.

The Minnesota Vikings, 1 of lone 2 unbeaten sides near successful the league, volition footwear america disconnected against 1 of the sports' iconic quarterbacks and four-time MVP Rodgers and his New York Jets.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are playing back-to-back games successful London again, firstly arsenic the designated distant broadside against the rebuilding Chicago Bears and their caller prima QB Williams.

After the 2 games astatine Tottenham, the Jags volition past resume their hosting duties for the sojourn of the New England Patriots - who are besides successful a immense rebuilding phase.

All games kick-off astatine 14:30 BST.

Both Rodgers and the Jets volition get successful London banged-up and licking their wounds aft an disfigured 10-9 location decision to the Denver Broncos connected Sunday dropped them to 2-2 for the season.

Robert Saleh's broadside person a large defence but are conscionable mean offensively truthful far, and they truly request to get that clicking arsenic the unit starts to mount.

Now acceptable aft his Achilles surgery, Rodgers was meant to pb this squad connected a large Super Bowl propulsion successful what could beryllium his last season. The unit volition proceed to physique until they fig that out.

On the flip side, things could hardly beryllium amended for the 4-0 Minnesota Vikings, the lone different unbeaten squad successful the NFL alongside defending champions the Kansas City Chiefs.

Head manager Kevin O'Connell mislaid his caller QB JJ McCarthy successful pre-season to wounded but Sam Darnold has had a singular renaissance aft antecedently being 1 of the worst quarterbacks statistically during his erstwhile six seasons.

Darnold was drafted 3rd wide by the Jets, but ne'er truly fixed immoderate enactment and with present the league's champion receiver Justin Jefferson to propulsion to, an elite moving backmost successful Aaron Jones and a coagulated defence - though lone 4 games successful helium is an aboriginal and precise astonishing MVP candidate.

Darnold leads the league with 11 touchdown passes and would similar thing amended than to instrumentality 1 connected his erstwhile broadside - and upstage headline-maker Rodgers successful the process.

Jets supporters and wide NFL fans alike pwill privation a glimpse of 40-year-old Rodgers successful action, arsenic 1 of the league's greats is successful the twilight of his singular career.

Rodgers is listed arsenic questionable connected the Jets wounded study but each indications are that helium volition play successful London for a 2nd time, pursuing the Green Bay Packers' nonaccomplishment to the New York Giants successful 2022.

He has shown glimpses of his aged self, particularly erstwhile throwing to Garrett Wilson, but helium has looked his years astatine times erstwhile being chased by elite, young NFL defenders. Rodgers volition nary uncertainty privation to enactment connected a amusement successful London though.

It's hard to enactment into words conscionable however bully Jefferson is and not conscionable for the numbers helium produces but immoderate of the item reel catches helium makes that cipher other can.

And helium gets the champion retired of each drawback arsenic well. As an illustration helium has the aforesaid fig of catches this play arsenic Wilson (20) but alternatively of 191 yards and 1 touchdown for the Jets man, Jefferson has turned them into 358 yards and a league-leading 4 TDs.

We get to spot 2 fig 1 wide draught prime QBs battling it retired successful London arsenic Caleb Williams rolls into municipality with the Chicago Bears to look Trevor Lawrence's Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Bears built a beardown offence astir Williams but it has not rather taken disconnected arsenic yet. There person been glimpses but they volition privation to spot much arsenic the play progresses.

Being the lone squad near yet to triumph successful the NFL was not precisely successful the publication erstwhile the Jaguars handed retired a bumper caller woody to Lawrence successful the summer, and losing 9 of their past 10 games, stretching backmost to past season, leaves caput manager Doug Pederson firmly connected the blistery seat.

It is not conscionable the defeats but the performances which person been a worry, throwing distant leads against Miami and Houston and being blown retired connected nationalist TV successful Buffalo.

Pederson volition anticipation a instrumentality to London tin spark a recovery, arsenic the Jags won some games successful the UK past play to commencement a five-game winning run.

Lawrence needs to measurement up, rookie Brian Thomas and chap receiver Christian Kirk are unsafe but Travis Etienne is simply a subordinate who tin beryllium a quality shaper - arsenic helium showed successful London past year.

The moving backmost had 2 decent games, but peculiarly astatine Tottenham wherever helium recorded 184 full yards and 2 TDs against the Buffalo Bills. He volition nary uncertainty beryllium gladsome to get connected that tract again.

The Bears person seasoned Keenan Allen and DJ Moore arsenic 2 top-draw receivers, on with rookie Rome Odunze, but let's look it -everyone wants to spot however Williams performs.

He's a larger than beingness quality disconnected the tract and decidedly has playmaking abilities connected it, and adjacent his large flaw of holding the shot excessively agelong makes for breathtaking viewing.

For the Jags' 'home' crippled astatine Wembley Stadium, they volition big six-time Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots who are connected perchance the biggest rebuild the league has ever seen.

With Bill Belichick pursuing Tom Brady retired of the door, young caput manager Jerod Mayo is the antheral charged with putting the one-time dynasty backmost together, but it volition beryllium a long, pugnacious process.

The erstwhile linebacker Mayo has blessed memories of London, arsenic helium was connected the Patriots teams that had 2 emphatic victories connected their erstwhile visits - albeit with Brady and Belichick inactive astatine the helm.

The Pats person to tally the ball, a lot, meaning Rhamondre Stevenson volition get plentifulness of enactment but Mayo is trying to physique from defence up.

Big antiaircraft extremity Keion White volition beryllium 1 to watch, not lone for fans but besides Trevor Lawrence arsenic White has been causing problems for opposing quarterbacks each season.

And with New England's violative troubles past 2022 archetypal wide draught prime Travon Walker could measurement up and person a large crippled astatine Wembley - wherever helium had a backmost sack past year.

We volition person unrecorded substance commentary connected each 3 NFL London games connected the BBC Sport app and website from astir 14:00 BST connected each crippled day.

After the crippled volition beryllium the accustomed lucifer report, absorption and highlights.

All 3 games volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected Sky Sports and ITV.

Tickets spell similar blistery cakes for the London games arsenic the appetite for the NFL shows nary signs of slowing down, and for the 2nd twelvemonth moving fans from the UK volition outnumber those from overseas.

According to information from summons marketplace viagogo, 53% of tickets income person gone to UK fans crossed the 3 games taking spot successful London - but determination is inactive a wide worldwide entreaty with tickets being sold to NFL fans from 41 antithetic countries.

But determination are large differences successful the idiosyncratic matches which marque absorbing reading, with the opening crippled betwixt the Jets and Vikings being made up of 47% UK fans and 53% from elsewhere.

The Bears person attracted the astir fans coming implicit from the United States for the 2nd crippled against the Jags, portion the 3rd crippled involving the Patriots astatine Wembley is the large 1 for UK fans with 69% of tickets connected the viagogo level going to home fans successful the UK.

It looks similar a cleanable tempest betwixt regular fans of 'London's team' the Jaguars who play annually astatine Wembley, but besides the attraction of six-time Super Bowl champions New England.

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are gone but the immense enactment those glory decades attracted inactive makes the Pats 1 of the astir fashionable teams crossed the Atlantic.