Daniel Jones — Week 2: Forty-Eight Yards in Overtime
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Monday, Sep 21
Jones completed 22 of 31 throws for 210 yards, one touchdown and one interception with no sacks, and his 31 pass plays were worth plus 5.9 expected points after minus 15.2 in Week 1. His 48-yard completion to Laquon Treadwell in overtime, first ruled a catch and lost fumble and reversed on replay, set up the tying field goal; a first-quarter interception at his own 16 became a Chiefs touchdown two snaps later, in a 33–30 overtime loss to the Chiefs.
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30 to 27, Chiefs, five-oh-four left in overtime, first and 10 at the Indianapolis 35, the first Colts snap after Kansas City's field goal. Daniel Jones threw deep middle to Laquon Treadwell, 44 yards in the air. On the field it was ruled a 50-yard catch and a fumble recovered by L'Jarius Sneed of the Chiefs. Replay reversed it: Treadwell down at the Kansas City 17, 48 yards, Colts ball. +3.3 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position — and 22.4 points of win probability, the chance of winning the game after the play against before it, the largest swing on any Colts pass or run all night. What followed was Jonathan Taylor for −1, Taylor for −2, a Jones scramble of five on third and 13, a delay of game on fourth down, and Spencer Shrader's 38-yard field goal to tie it at 30. Indianapolis did not get the ball again.
The line: 22 completions on 31 throws, 210 yards, one touchdown, one interception, no sacks, and +5.9 expected points on 31 pass plays. 10 of 16 for 78 yards before halftime; 12 of 15 for a hundred 32 after it, overtime included. The touchdown was one yard to Tyler Warren on second and goal with eight 28 left in the first quarter, the first points of the game. The interception came on the next Colts drive: second and six at the Indianapolis 14 with five 25 left in the first, up seven to three, short left for Keenan Allen, picked off by Kristian Fulton at the 16. −4.7 expected points and −15.5 points of win probability, and two snaps later Travis Kelce scored. The five throws to Allen produced one catch for five yards and −7.6 expected points. On third down Jones threw nine times, completed six and converted four, all four to Josh Downs. Two more deep throws to Treadwell drew defensive pass interference on Fulton, 26 yards and 23; both go down as no play and sit outside the line. Three runs for 10 yards, two of them scrambles; the third was a keeper for three on fourth and one at the Kansas City 25 with nine-oh-seven left in the fourth, down 27 to 20, worth +1.8, on the drive that tied the game.
Where the ball went: Downs nine targets, Warren seven, Allen five, Taylor four, Treadwell three, one each to Alec Pierce and Andrew Ogletree, and one throw with no intended receiver. Four throws the play-by-play labels deep, two complete: 20 to Downs and the 48.
Back in June the preview's read on Jones was an eighteenth-place finish among quarterbacks in a 13-game season that ended with a torn Achilles, with availability — about 66 percent over five seasons — the input that kept failing. Week 1 he took every Colts pass play and the throwing failed instead: −15.2 expected points and an interception worth 16 points of win probability. Sunday night he again took every one, was not sacked, and came out at +5.9 on the road in a game that went 70 minutes. The carry-over from Week 1 is the first-quarter interception that turned into a touchdown; that has now happened in both games. Two games, one of each kind, settle little. Indianapolis is home to the Texans on Sunday the 20-seventh.
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