What we learned in NFL Week 3: Answering big questions and sizing up every single matchup

Week 3 of the 2025 NFL season kicked disconnected Thursday nighttime with the Bills fending disconnected the Dolphins to enactment undefeated. In the aboriginal model Sunday, the Browns stunned the Packers with a game-winning tract extremity by kicker Andre Szmyt arsenic clip expired. The Panthers wholly unopen retired the Falcons, portion the Steelers made a cardinal fourth-down halt successful the last 2 minutes to decision the Patriots.

Our NFL Nation reporters reacted to each the action, answering lingering questions coming retired of each crippled and detailing everything other you request to cognize for each team. Let's get to it.

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Cleveland 13, Green Bay 10

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Browns

Did the Browns find a look to triumph games? For 3 quarters, the Browns' discourtesy looked lifeless arsenic its defence did each it could to support Cleveland successful the game. Then, the squad started playing the complementary shot it has preached. The discourtesy recovered a tally game, information Grant Delpit made a clutch interception and peculiar teams capitalized with a blocked footwear and Andre Szmyt's walk-off tract goal. It wasn't pretty, but it's the mode the Browns mightiness person to play to win.

Stat to know: Rookie moving backmost Quinshon Judkins' 38-yard tally successful the 4th fourth gives him 2 of the Browns' longest plays of the play -- helium had a 31-yard tally successful the 4th fourth of last week's loss to Baltimore. He finished with 94 yards and a TD connected 18 carries. It was Judkins' 2nd vocation crippled aft a two-month layoff arsenic helium went unsigned amid a ineligible matter. -- Daniel Oyefusi

Next game: astatine Lions (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)

Packers

How acrophobic should the Packers beryllium astir their violative struggles? The Browns' defence is nary joke; Cleveland came successful with the No. 1 wide defense. But not scoring a touchdown until 3:23 near successful the 3rd 4th and past turning the shot implicit precocious successful the 4th fourth connected a unspeakable interception by Jordan Love, who hadn't thrown a prime for the archetypal 11 quarters of the season, has to beryllium considered troubling. Even connected the thrust that enactment them successful presumption to effort a go-ahead tract extremity -- which was blocked -- with 27 seconds left, their champion play was a 20-yard walk interference penalty. Plus, the Packers mislaid 2 starting violative linem...