Jordan Davis seals thrilling win for Eagles with walk-off blocked field goal vs. Rams

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PHILADELPHIA — Jordan Davis clutched the ball in his outstretched right hand as he reached the end zone and had no choice but to freeze and meet the mob of Eagles sprinting his way.

“If I tried to run away,” Davis said, “I was going to get moshed.”

Davis got swept up in the celebration after the 336-pounder capped off Philadelphia’s block party with an improbable special-teams touchdown that kept the Super Bowl champs unbeaten.

Davis blocked a field-goal attempt by the Rams’ Joshua Karty on the final play of the game and returned it 61 yards to the end zone — the Eagles’ second blocked kick of the fourth quarter — to give Philly an exhilarating 33-26 win over Los Angeles on Sunday.

“I don’t know what mph I hit but I’m pretty sure it was something crazy,” Davis said.

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Try 18.59 mph, the fastest by a player over 330 pounds since at least 2017, per Next Gen Stats.

The Rams (2-1) led 26-21 midway through the fourth when Jalen Carter blocked Karty’s 36-yard try, and Jalen Hurts then led the Eagles (3-0) on a 17-play, 91-yard drive for the go-ahead score. That left 1:48 on the clock for Matthew Stafford, who led the Rams into position for Karty’s 44-yard attempt with 3 seconds left.

Davis instead wedged his way through, knocked the ball down, scooped it and rumbled to the end zone as fans at the Linc erupted in celebration of the Eagles’ 12th straight home victory — and the biggest comeback win at the stadium that opened in 2003.

“A lot of people look at field goal blocking as just another play,” Davis said. “Just another down, put your hands up, get off the field, check a box. The way we talked about it on the sideline, we knew especially off his last kick, we knew his angle, we knew his launch point. We just hit the gap, put our hands up at the right time and I saw the ball on the ground at the right time.”

The Eagles blocked multiple field goals for the first time since Sept. 21, 1975 against the New York Giants. They also became the fourth NFL team since 2001 to block two field goals in a game and return one for a touchdown.

Davis’ TD wasn’t strictly necessary. Given the situation — the Eagles had the lead with no time left — coach Nick Sirianni said the proper play would have been to just fall on the ball. Sirianni, though, conceded Davis “would probably get the play of the game.”

The Eagles are 19-1 over their last 20 games (including playoffs), the best 20-game stretch in franchise history. It was the biggest home comeback for the Eagles they rallied from 20 points down to beat Dallas in 1988 at Veterans Stadium.

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