Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions
Written on: September 21, 2021
Title : Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions
link : Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions
Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions
By Eric Goska
 |
| Lions fans invaded Lambeau Field's parking lot ahead of the game between Green Bay and Detroit. |
Does Aaron Jones have a future in real estate?
The Packers’ dynamic running back found the end zone four times in Green Bay’s 35-17 victory over Detroit. He repeatedly closed the sale in one or the other of the two most sought-after plots of land at Lambeau Field.
Used sparingly (7 touches) in the opener against the Saints, Jones’ workload (23 touches) increased against the Lions. He rushed for 67 yards on 17 carries and caught six passes for another 48.
But it was his four scores that mattered most. The Green and Gold went 4-for-4 in the red zone thanks to Jones who capped drives with three touchdown receptions and one on the ground.
In grabbing four, Jones became only the second player (Sterling Sharpe, 1994) in Packers history to score a touchdown in all four quarters of a single game.
Jones’ tied other records as well. He, Johnny Blood and Andy Uram are the only backs in team annals to have caught three TD passes in one game. He, Paul Hornung (2), Jim Taylor (3) and Sharpe (2) are the only Packers to have scored four TDs more than once.
(Jones rushed for four touchdowns in Dallas in 2019.)
Moreover, he has amassed his haul at a lightning-quick pace. Only Taylor (51) and Ahman Green (47) had as many or more TDs in their first 56 regular-season games as Packers.
Jones was the Green and Gold’s not-so-secret weapon inside the Detroit 20-yard line. The Packers ran 13 plays there and gained 52 yards. Jones accounted for 48 on 10 touches and registered all six of the team’s first downs in the red zone.
Monday night was the second time Jones has scored multiple touchdowns on pass receptions in a game. He had two in a 31-24 win in Kansas City in 2019.
Historically, the Packers have done well when one of their backs catches two or more TD passes. Starting with Marty Norton in 1925, the Green and Gold have gone 22-2 (.917) when a running back reaches the end zone at least twice through the air.
The team is 5-0 at Lambeau Field.
In piling up four scores, Jones – who had 19 in 2019 and 11 last season – becomes the odds-on favorite to lead the team in touchdowns this season. Were he to finish with 10 or more, he would join Don Hutson (1941-45), Taylor (1960-64), Sharpe (1992-94) and Davante Adams (2016-18) as the only men to have scored at least 10 TDs in three or more seasons consecutively.
Packers players who scored the greatest number of TDs in their first 56 regular-season games.
51 Jim Taylor 1958-1961
47 Ahman Green 2000-2003
47 Aaron Jones 2017-2021
39 Don Hutson 1935-1940
37 Paul Hornung 1957-1961
36 Bill Howton 1952-1956
32 Randall Cobb 2011-2015
That's the article Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions
You are now reading the article Jones Owns End Zone as Packers Beat Lions with link address https://zone-update.blogspot.com/2021/09/jones-owns-end-zone-as-packers-beat.html
