Detroit Lions at Denver Broncos, 2021-12-12

Dec 12, 2021 · 2021 WK 14 · Empower Field at Mile High · outdoors

01/How each side played it

Play log
2020–2025 only

Detroit Lions

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Pass	41	54.7%	198	4.83	1
Run	21	28.0%	118	5.62	0
Kickoff	6	8.0%	0	0.00	0
No play (penalty)	3	4.0%	0	0.00	0
Punt	2	2.7%	0	0.00	0
Field goal	1	1.3%	0	0.00	0
Extra point	1	1.3%	0	0.00	0

Denver Broncos

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Run	39	48.8%	184	4.72	3
Pass	26	32.5%	174	6.69	2
Extra point	5	6.3%	0	0.00	0
No play (penalty)	3	3.8%	0	0.00	0
Kickoff	3	3.8%	0	0.00	0
Punt	3	3.8%	0	0.00	0
Field goal	1	1.3%	0	0.00	0

02/Box score

59 lines
Both sides

DETROIT LIONS 10

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Jared Goff	QB	24/39	215	5.5	1	1	2

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C
Craig Reynolds	RB	11	83	7.55
Godwin Igwebuike	RB	8	25	3.13
Jared Goff	QB	2	10	5.00

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R	TD
Amon-Ra St. Brown	WR	12	8	73	9.1	0
Shane Zylstra	TE	6	2	18	9.0	0
Josh Reynolds	WR	5	3	52	17.3	0
Kalif Raymond	WR	5	4	31	7.8	1
Brock Wright	TE	5	3	20	6.7	0
Craig Reynolds	RB	2	2	16	8.0	0
KhaDarel Hodge	WR	1	0	0	—	0
Tom Kennedy	WR	1	1	7	7.0	0
Taylor Decker	T	1	1	-2	-2.0	0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	SACK	TFL	PD
Josh Woods	ILB	10	7	0.0	1	0
Will Harris	FS	9	2	0.0	0	1
Dean Marlowe	SS	7	2	0.0	0	0
Jessie Lemonier	DE	6	2	0.0	0	0
C.J. Moore	FS	6	2	0.0	0	0
Michael Brockers	DE	5	1	0.0	0	0
Jalen Elliott	SS	5	3	0.0	0	0
Alim McNeill	DT	4	1	1.0	1	0
Anthony Pittman	OLB	4	3	0.0	0	0
Derrick Barnes	ILB	4	1	0.0	0	0
Levi Onwuzurike	DE	3	1	0.0	0	0
Brock Wright	TE	2	1	0.0	0	0
Charles Harris	DE	2	0	0.0	0	0
John Penisini	NT	2	0	0.0	0	0
Nickell Robey	CB	2	1	0.0	0	0
KhaDarel Hodge	WR	1	1	0.0	0	0
Amani Oruwariye	CB	1	1	0.0	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Riley Patterson	K	4

Kicking points are complete; field-goal makes and attempts are present on 1,054 of 450,176 rows and are not shown.

DENVER BRONCOS 38

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Teddy Bridgewater	QB	18/25	179	7.2	2	0	1

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C	TD
Melvin Gordon	RB	24	111	4.63	2
Javonte Williams	RB	15	73	4.87	1

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R	TD
Jerry Jeudy	WR	6	5	47	9.4	0
Tim Patrick	WR	5	2	21	10.5	0
Albert Okwuegbunam	TE	5	5	41	8.2	1
Noah Fant	TE	4	4	51	12.8	0
Javonte Williams	RB	2	1	10	10.0	1
Courtland Sutton	WR	2	1	9	9.0	0
Diontae Spencer	WR	1	0	0	—	0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	SACK	TFL	INT	PD
Jonas Griffith	ILB	5	2	0.0	0	0	0
Jonathon Cooper	OLB	5	5	0.0	0	0	0
Justin Simmons	FS	5	4	0.0	0	1	1
Patrick Surtain	CB	5	4	0.0	0	0	0
Stephen Weatherly	OLB	4	1	0.0	1	0	0
Ronald Darby	CB	4	4	0.0	0	0	1
Dre'Mont Jones	DE	3	3	2.0	3	0	1
Mike Purcell	NT	3	1	0.0	0	0	0
Baron Browning	OLB	3	1	0.0	1	0	0
Bradley Chubb	OLB	3	2	0.0	0	0	0
Caden Sterns	SS	3	2	0.0	0	0	0
Kareem Jackson	SS	3	1	0.0	0	0	1
Kyle Fuller	CB	3	2	0.0	0	0	0
Kenny Young	ILB	2	0	0.0	0	0	0
Shelby Harris	DT	1	0	0.0	0	0	1
Justin Strnad	ILB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Mike Ford	CB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Brandon McManus	K	8

Kicking points are complete; field-goal makes and attempts are present on 1,054 of 450,176 rows and are not shown.

A player appears under a heading only if he recorded something there, so these tables are shorter than the roster that dressed. A dash is an absent figure rather than a recorded zero. Sacks carry a half, which is why that column shows a decimal, and the sack column in the passing table is times the passer was sacked, not sacks he made. There is no scoring summary or drive chart here: the play log carries no field position, no down and no distance, so a drive cannot be reconstructed and one is not guessed at. Where the play-type panel is missing, this fixture predates the play log, which begins in 2020. Where a box score is missing entirely, no per-player line was published for it. No play (penalty) is a snap wiped out by an accepted penalty: the down did not count. Measured across the whole 2020-2025 play log, all 27,755 such rows league-wide, 27,747 gained no yardage and none scored, so a no-play row carries a share of the snaps but no yards, and it drags the yards-per-play column down.