Courtland Sutton — Week 3: Seven Targets, Another Interception
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Monday, Sep 28
Sutton caught 3 of 7 targets for 46 yards and three first downs, both team highs, including a 27-yarder early in a tied fourth quarter. Two snaps later a throw intended for him was intercepted by Josh Wallace and returned 26 yards, setting up the field goal that put the Rams ahead 19–16, the third straight game a throw to him was intercepted, in a 30–26 win over the Rams.
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16 all, 13 oh seven left in the fourth quarter, second and 14 at the Los Angeles 48. Bo Nix threw short left for Courtland Sutton, and Josh Wallace intercepted it at the Los Angeles 37 and returned it 26 yards to the Denver 37. −5.3 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position — and −16.1 points of win probability, the chance of winning the game after the play against before it, Denver's costliest play of the night by both measures. The Rams kicked a 48-yard field goal from the drive. Two snaps earlier Sutton had caught a 27-yarder down the left side from the Denver 29, out of bounds at the Los Angeles 44, with a pass-interference flag on Wallace declined.
The line: seven targets, three catches, 46 yards, three first downs, −1.6 expected points on the targets, 83 air yards. The catches: 10 on second and 10 from the Denver 35 in the first quarter; nine on third and nine at the Los Angeles 20 in the third, with a face-mask penalty on Quentin Lake adding six more to put Denver at the five, on the drive that produced its first touchdown; and the 27. The misses: 27 yards in the air down the left side from the Los Angeles 29 in the first quarter, on the drive that ended in a missed field goal; first and goal at the eight in the third, one snap before Nate Adkins's touchdown; the interception; and second and goal at the five with a minute five left, on the winning drive. Two targets before halftime, five after. One third-down target, caught and converted.
Seven targets tied Jaylen Waddle and RJ Harvey for the team lead. 46 yards led the Broncos, two more than Pat Bryant's 44, and three first downs were the most of any Denver receiver.
Back in June the preview leaned toward Sutton: a thousand-yard season on a hundred 24 targets with a clean touchdown rate, and the target split with Waddle as the whole question. Week One the split went his way, five targets to three, for 11 yards, and the first throw to him was intercepted. Week Two it went the other way, 10 to four, with another interception on a throw to him in the end zone. Sunday it was even at seven, and Sutton had the better day, 46 yards to 10 — and a third interception on a throw his way in three games. Three games: 16 targets, eight catches, 82 yards. The split is closer than Week Two made it look; the yardage is still well short of what a hundred-24-target season produces. Denver is at the 49ers on Sunday the fourth.
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