A.J. Brown scored his second touchdown of the season, his first since Sept. 21 against the Rams when he had his only 100-yard game of the season.
The Eagles receiver caught a 37-yard pass from Jalen Hurts, giving his team an early 7-0 lead. He beat safety Joshua Metellus for an easy touchdown.
The Eagles drove 75 yards in 12 plays, going for it on fourth down at their own 45. Hurts scored on a tush push that gained the needed yard.
Hurts went 3-for-3 for 39 yards and the touchdown.
Saquon Barkley ran for 25 yards on five carries.
Defensive tackle Jalen Carter said he’d be ready to go for the Eagles in Week 7 and that has turned out to be the case.
Carter was listed as questionable to play due to the heel injury that kept him from playing against the Giants in Week 6, but he is active for Sunday’s game in Minnesota. Carter will be trying to help the Eagles avoid a three-game losing streak.
Right tackle Brian O’Neill will be one of the blockers trying to keep Carter from making a mess of things on Sunday. He is active after being listed as questionable with a knee injury.
Raiders at Chiefs
Raiders: RB Zamir White, TE Brock Bowers, WR Jakobi Meyers, G Caleb Rogers, DT J.J. Pegues, DT Tonka Hemingway
Chiefs: CB Kristian Fulton, TE Jared Wiley, RB Elijah Mitchell, T Josh Simmons, DE Malik Herring
Dolphins at Browns
Dolphins: QB Zach Wilson, DB Elijah Campbell, LB Matthew Judon, WR Cedrick Wilson Jr., CB Storm Duck, WR Tahj Washington, DT Zeek Biggers
Browns: CB Jarrick Bernard-Converse, RB Raheim Sanders, DT Mike Hall Jr., T Jack Conklin, TE David Njoku
Patriots at Titans
Patriots: S Jaylinn Hawkins, CB Charles Woods, LB Anfernee Jennings, DT Eric Gregory, OL Caedan Wallace, QB Tommy DeVito
Titans: WR Calvin Ridley, CB Samuel Womack, LB Arden Key, OL Blake Hance, T Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson, WR Bryce Oliver, DL C.J. Ravenell
Saints at Bears
Saints: OL Torricelli Simpkins III, OL Xavier Truss, S Ugo Amadi, CB Rejzohn Wright, CB Isaac Yiadom, DT Jonah Williams
Bears: DT Grady Jarrett, K Cairo Santos, LB Ruben Hyppolite II, G Luke Newman, LB Noah Sewell, WR Jahdae Walker, QB Case Keenum
Eagles at Vikings
Eagles: QB Sam Howell, CB Mac McWilliams, RB A.J. Dillon, OL Drew Kendall, TE Grant Calcaterra
Vikings: LB Andrew Van Ginkel, LB Kobe King, LB Chaz Chambliss, DT Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, QB J.J. McCarthy
Panthers at Jets
Panthers: WR Hunter Renfrow, RB DeeJay Dallas, G Damien Lewis, TE James Mitchell, DT Cam Jackson, DT Jaden Crumedy
Jets: WR Garrett Wilson, CB Michael Carter II, CB Qwan’tez Stiggers, LB Cam Jones, OL Esa Pole, TE Jelani Woods, DL Tyler Baron
Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson can make a little history on Sunday.
Jefferson will be playing his 83rd regular-season game against the Eagles. He has 7,881 career receiving yards.
With 119, he’ll be the fastest player to get to 8,000 receiving yards, per NBC Sports research.
Julio Jones got there in 85 games. Which gives Jefferson two games to set a new record.
In the past two games, Jefferson has had 123 yards (against the Browns) and 126 yards (against the Steelers). And his production has spiked with Carson Wentz replacing the injured J.J. McCarthy (ankle) at quarterback. In two games with McCarthy as the starter, Jefferson had a total of 125 receiving yards.
That fact alone could have the Vikings ride with Wentz until they are certain that McCarthy is ready to run the offense as well as Wentz has been doing it.
Far more importantly than any record, the Vikings are trying to get to 4-2 against the currently 4-2 Eagles.
UPDATE 12:27 p.m. ET: The record, as it turns out, was 83 games. It was set by Hall of Famer Lance Alworth. With 40 yards on Thursday night at the Chargers, Jefferson will be the second fastest to get there, at 84 games.
The Vikings activated linebacker Blake Cashman and outside linebacker Tyler Batty from injured reserve on Saturday, the team announced.
The Vikings had two open roster spots, so they had no corresponding moves.
Cashman injured his hamstring in the season opener after making three tackles. He returned to practice earlier this week.
Cashman is in his second season with Minnesota after recording 112 total tackles with 4.5 sacks in 2024.
Eric Wilson filled Cashman’s role for the past four games.
Batty joined the Vikings as an undrafted rookie out of BYU. A knee injury during the preseason landed him on injured reserve at the start of the season.
They lost two games only five days apart. Following the Thursday night upset against the Giants, the Eagles had extra time to get ready for their Week 7 visit to Minnesota.
The overriding question is whether the Philly offense will perform any better than it has, as the team tries to avoid losing three in a row.
Through six weeks, the Eagles are averaging 275.4 yards. That’s 30th in the league, ahead of only the Bengals and the Titans. (Cincinnati’s 470 yards on Thursday night bumped the Bengals’ average from 268.7 to 297.5, dropping Philly to No. 31 in per-game average.)
It’s also the lowest offensive output for a defending Super Bowl champion since 1987, when the Giants started 1-5 during a season that included three games with replacement players.
So what do the Eagles need to do?
“I think it’s just — we’ve got to win games,” running back Saquon Barkley said Friday, via Zach Berman of TheAthletic.com. That echoes advice given by Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy before the Thursday night loss to the Giants.
“Some games, we’re a run-first team,” Barkley said. “Some games might be airing it out. Just got to get back to the conversation of, what is winning football supposed to be like? That’s the Eagles [having] more points than the other team in the end. I feel like we’ve lost sight of that. The city’s lost sight of that. We got to get back to that. We have a lot of things to fix, but I felt better being 4-0 rather than when we lost two in a row.”
The offense hasn’t looked great in any of the games. There have been spurts, like the second half against the Rams, the first half against the Buccaneers, and the first half and opening drive of the third quarter against the Broncos. Overall, it’s been far from ideal.
Barkley, who had 2,283 total yards in 2024 (142.7 yards per game), has yet to generate more than 100 yards from scrimmage in any game this season.
Likewise, quarterback Jalen Hurts has gone 22 straight starts (including playoffs) without throwing for 300 or more passing yards in a game.
It’s the third straight year in which the Eagles have encountered adversity. In 2023, it broke the wrong way. In 2024, it broke the right way. The next chance for the offense to break out of its current funk comes in little more than 24 hours.
