Browns stun Pack with big block, then 55-yard FG

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      Rob Demovsky is an NFL newsman astatine ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN successful 2013. Demovsky is simply a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year arsenic selected by the NSSA.
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      Daniel Oyefusi covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. Prior to ESPN, helium covered the Miami Dolphins for the Miami Herald, arsenic good arsenic the Baltimore Ravens for The Baltimore Sun.

Sep 21, 2025, 06:59 PM ET

CLEVELAND -- There are upsets and past determination are come-from-behind upsets.

The Cleveland Browns did some Sunday against the Green Bay Packers, overcoming a 10-point shortage successful the last 4 minutes acknowledgment to a blocked tract extremity and a 55-yard walk-off tract extremity of their ain successful a melodramatic 13-10 win.

The antecedently winless Browns bushed the antecedently unbeaten Packers for the biggest upset of the NFL play to date, according to ESPN BET. The Packers were 7.5-point favorites and earlier Sunday, nary underdog of 4 points oregon much had won successful Weeks 1 and 2.

"Sometimes, conscionable similar today, you s--- the bed," Packers antiaircraft extremity Micah Parsons said. "That's conscionable the world of it. It happens to the champion teams. Even the champion Super Bowl champs marque mistakes, and they wage for it early.

"You spell backmost to the past of the champions and who've they've played and games they should've won. It's conscionable that competitive. It's that hard to win. It's hard arsenic hellhole to triumph shot games. When you triumph shot games, it's a celebration. But erstwhile you suffer it sucks."

Parsons, successful part, blamed himself for 2 offsides penalties -- the 2nd of which occurred connected the archetypal play of the Browns' game-winning thrust -- calling those infractions "unacceptable" and adding: "I afloat apologize for my actions."

But there's overmuch much than that other 5 yards Parsons gave the Browns that went into the ending. The 2 biggest players successful that regard: Browns antiaircraft tackle Shelby Harris, who swatted distant a 43-yard tract extremity effort by Brandon McManus that would've fixed the Packers a 13-10 pb with little than 25 seconds to play; and Browns kicker Andre Szmyt, who nailed the 55-yard crippled victor arsenic clip expired.

And past earlier those determination was the interception that Jordan Love threw with 3:08 remaining and the Packers up 10-3. Love said helium ne'er saw information Grant Delpit successful the level and threw it close to him.

It wasn't similar the Packers weren't alert of Harris' penchant for blocking kicks. He was 1 of six Browns players lined up to the near of agelong snapper Matt Orzech.

"He's a truly elite tract extremity rusher," Orzech said. "So you've got to look retired for him, cognize wherever helium is and cognize they're going to effort to get him escaped if they can."

McManus said helium thought helium deed the footwear precocious capable and good capable to marque it.

"They're a bully unreserved team," McManus said. "We knew that coming in, and they got their manus connected the ball."

After Harris blocked the tract extremity with his close hand, cornerback Greg Newsome pounced connected the ricocheted ball.

"You got to look, evidently wherever they're kicking the ball," Harris said arsenic helium recalled the play. "Is the shot going to beryllium tailing to the left, is it going to beryllium ...

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