Campbell: 'No looking back' after Gibbs' breakout

DETROIT -- Lions moving backmost Jahmyr Gibbs had been itching for a breakout crippled successful 2025 and yet got it, utilizing the Monday Night Football signifier to showcase a two-touchdown show against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Gibbs exploded for a career-best 218 scrimmage yards, the astir by a Lions subordinate successful a crippled since Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson had 329 yards successful 2013, per ESPN Research.

Detroit won 24-9 to amended to 5-2 arsenic it enters the bye week.

Gibbs ran for 136 yards portion adding 82 receiving yards.

"This was my archetypal 200-yard output, truthful yeah, it's kinda special," Gibbs said, smiling.

Gibbs besides drew information from competing successful beforehand of Lions large Barry Sanders, his boyhood idol, arsenic helium broke escaped up the mediate for the longest tally of his NFL vocation with a 78-yard touchdown astatine 6:01 successful the 2nd quarter.

"It was conscionable black. All I saw was achromatic jerseys," Gibbs said of moving down Lions violative linemen Penei Sewell and Tate Ratledge connected the agelong touchdown play. "I was like, 'Oh, s---' and I conscionable ran straight."

Gibbs' apical velocity connected the play was 22.2 mph, the fastest rushing touchdown by an violative shot bearer this season, per NFL Next Gen Stats.

He is the lone subordinate implicit the past 3 seasons to scope 22 mph connected a rushing touchdown, and helium has done it doubly now, including a 70-yard touchdown past play successful Week 8 versus the Tennessee Titans.

"Those truly agelong ones are amusive to watch, and I consciousness similar I got the champion spot successful the location conscionable to similar spot him deed the spread and past conscionable similar instrumentality off," said Lions backmost Jared Goff, who went 20-for-29 for 241 passing yards with a touchdown and an interception versus Tampa Bay.

"I don't cognize however galore safeties successful the league could drawback him. So arsenic soon arsenic helium gets there, it's over. He's gone," Goff said. "It felt similar past year, the Titans run, the 70-yard run, it was precise akin wherever it's conscionable similar him connected the information and past it's over. But it's beauteous cool. He's dang fast, and it's amusive to watch."

Lions manager Dan Campbell was arsenic impressed with the violative linemen's quality to unfastened holes for Gibbs, arsenic good arsenic the coagulated blocking by receivers. He had anticipated a large interruption happening astatine immoderate constituent for his prima moving backmost and sees much item plays up for Gibbs.

"You felt similar this was coming. You felt similar this has been building, and arsenic helium gets successful amended signifier and starts getting his feet nether him, starts getting the consciousness of it, starts breaking immoderate tackles," Campbell said. "Every week he's gotten person and closer, and contiguous was a nighttime wherever helium busted 1 of these retired of determination and determination volition beryllium nary looking back. I deliberation he's conscionable going to proceed to bash this."

Gibbs punched successful his 2nd rushing touchdown of the nighttime with a goal-line rotation determination from 5 yards retired to enactment Detroit up 21-9 astatine 4:10 successful the 3rd quarter.

He became the 2nd subordinate with 200 scrimmage yards and 2 scrimmage touchdowns connected Monday Night Football implicit the past 15 seasons, on with Tyreek Hill (Week 11 successful 2018).

However, Gibbs remained nonchalant aft the victory, crediting his violative enactment for...