Brothers Amon-Ra and Equanimeous St. Brown have started the NFL– Season scored a touchdown for their teams and thus provided a novelty.
Never in the history of the USfootball-Profiliga have two German professionals on the same day in the National Football League dotted. In his first competitive game for the Chicago Bears scored the 25-year-old Equanimeous St. Brown touchdown to the interim 13:10 and the lead that took the Bears to an unexpected 19:10 against the highly traded San Francisco 49ers expand. He caught an 18-yards-Passport.
Equanimeous St. Brown: “I’m very satisfied”
“I’m very happy. It was a bit difficult because of the rain, but we won the game and I got a touchdown”said St. Brown: “That was very important. That way I can get momentum and benefit from it.”
His brother Amon-Ra St. Brown, who was three years younger, caught a short pass over four yards on his touchdown and was able to end the narrow 35:38 defeat of the Detroit Lions against the Philly Eagles but don’t prevent it. With a total of eight passes caught for 64 yards, St. Brown was the most successful receivers with the Lions and thus immediately confirmed the strong performances at the end of the past season.
Jakob Johnson conceded on his debut for the Las Vegas Raiders A defeat. Of the fullback from Stuttgart, from the New England Patriots come, lost with his new team 19:24 at the Los Angeles Chargers.
Prescott with injury and defeat at the start
For the Dallas Cowboys and football star Dak Prescott could not have gotten off to a worse start to the season. The quarterback suffered a fracture on the thumb of his throwing hand and will be missing for weeks after an operation – the opening game against them went to that Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost to superstar Tom Brady 3:19. “It’s very disappointing” said Prescott, “But injuries happen. I can’t be there for my team for a while, it hurts more than anything.” The Cowboys last had less than six points in their first game of the season in 1989, in a 28-0 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Brady made a successful start to his 23rd and perhaps final season. At 45 years is the seven times Super Bowl Champion Oldest quarterback to start in an NFL game. Brady, however, conceded two bags and threw one interception. “We have a lot to talk about,” said the veteran.
Things went better for Patrick Mahomes. The playmaker of the Kansas City Chiefs caused the 44:21 victory in the Arizona Cardinals for five touchdown passes. Aaron Rodgers, Most Valuable Player (MVP) last season, lost with the Green Bay Packers 7:23 at the Minnesota Vikings.