Ben Roethlisberger set club records with 522 yards passing and six touchdowns as the Pittsburgh Steelers raced by the Indianapolis Colts 51-34 on Sunday.
Roethlisberger’s yardage total was the fourth highest in NFL history. He became the first player to go more than 500 yards passing twice as the Steelers (5-3) won consecutive games for the first time this season.
Antonio Brown caught 10 passes for 133 yards and two scores. Heath Miller caught seven passes for 112 yards and the clinching TD with 5:14 remaining.
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Cincinnati’s Andy Dalton made up for his two second-half turnovers by scoring on a 1-yard sneak with 57 seconds left to rally the Bengals past the Baltimore Ravens 27-24 to tighten the AFC North race.
The Bengals wasted an 11-point lead as Dalton’s fumble and interception helped the Ravens pull ahead 24-20 with 3:59 left.
In London, Matt Prater kicked a 48-yard field goal on the last play of the game to lift the Detroit Lions to a 22-21 win over the Atlanta Falcons after trailing by 21 points.
Prater capped a second straight late winning drive for the Lions, who also rallied to beat the Saints last week.
It was the first field goal the Lions made from 40-49 yards all season.
The Arizona Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-20 after Carson Palmer lofted a 75-yard touchdown pass to rookie John Brown with 1:21 to play.
The Cardinals had a goal-line stand that forced the Eagles to settle for a 20-yard field goal that put Philadelphia up 20-17 with 1:56 left.
Then on third-and-5, Palmer — who also had an 80-yard TD pass to Larry Fitzgerald — heaved the ball deep, where the speedy Brown gathered it in and crossed the goal line just as he was being tackled.
Russell Wilson threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Luke Willson with 47 seconds left, to lift the Seattle Seahawks over the Carolina Panthers 13-9, while Drew Brees completed 27 of 32 passes for 311 yards and three touchdowns in the New Orleans Saints’ 44-23 win over the Green Bay Packers.
In other games, Tom Brady threw five scoring passes as the New England Patriots crammed three touchdowns into the last two minutes of the first half in a 51-23 win over the Chicago Bears, the Minnesota Vikings earned a 19-13 overtime win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Kansas City Chiefs downed the St Louis Rams 34-7 and the Miami Dolphins defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-13.
Kyle Orton threw four touchdown passes as the Buffalo Bills forced six turnovers, three each by Geno Smith and Michael Vick, in a 43-23 win over the New York Jets, the Cleveland Browns beat the Oakland Raiders 23-13 and the Houston Texans were 30-16 winners over the Tennessee Titans.
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