Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots, 2021-12-26

Dec 26, 2021 · 2021 WK 16 · Gillette Stadium · outdoors

01/How each side played it

Play log
2020–2025 only

Buffalo Bills

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Pass	48	53.9%	314	6.54	3
Run	26	29.2%	115	4.42	1
Kickoff	4	4.5%	0	0.00	0
No play (penalty)	4	4.5%	0	0.00	0
Extra point	3	3.4%	0	0.00	0
Field goal	2	2.2%	0	0.00	0
QB kneel	2	2.2%	-1	-0.50	0

New England Patriots

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Pass	33	42.9%	139	4.21	0
Run	27	35.1%	149	5.52	3
Kickoff	7	9.1%	0	0.00	0
No play (penalty)	4	5.2%	0	0.00	0
Punt	3	3.9%	0	0.00	0
Extra point	3	3.9%	0	0.00	0

02/Box score

61 lines
Both sides

BUFFALO BILLS 33

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Josh Allen	QB	30/47	314	6.7	3	0	0

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C	TD
Josh Allen	QB	12	64	5.33	0
Devin Singletary	RB	12	39	3.25	1
Zack Moss	RB	3	12	4.00	0
Isaiah McKenzie	WR	1	-1	-1.00	0

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R	TD
Stefon Diggs	WR	13	7	85	12.1	1
Isaiah McKenzie	WR	12	11	125	11.4	1
Devin Singletary	RB	6	5	39	7.8	0
Emmanuel Sanders	WR	4	2	20	10.0	0
Jake Kumerow	WR	3	1	13	13.0	0
Dawson Knox	TE	3	2	11	5.5	1
Reggie Gilliam	FB	1	1	8	8.0	0
Zack Moss	RB	1	1	13	13.0	0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	SACK	TFL	INT	PD
Tremaine Edmunds	ILB	7	6	0.0	0	0	0
Micah Hyde	FS	6	3	0.0	0	2	2
Harrison Phillips	NT	5	4	0.0	0	0	0
Ed Oliver	DT	4	3	1.0	1	0	0
Matt Milano	OLB	4	2	0.0	0	0	0
A.J. Klein	OLB	3	3	0.0	0	0	1
Dane Jackson	CB	3	3	0.0	0	0	0
Jordan Poyer	SS	3	1	0.0	1	0	0
Taron Johnson	CB	3	1	0.0	0	0	1
Efe Obada	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Jerry Hughes	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Mario Addison	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Carlos Basham	OLB	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
Tyler Matakevich	MLB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Cam Lewis	FS	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Levi Wallace	CB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Siran Neal	CB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Tyler Bass	K	9

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

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 21

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Mac Jones	QB	14/32	145	4.5	0	2	1

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C	TD
Damien Harris	RB	18	103	5.72	3
Mac Jones	QB	6	33	5.50	0
Brandon Bolden	RB	2	4	2.00	0
Gunner Olszewski	WR	1	9	9.00	0

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R
Jakobi Meyers	WR	8	6	59	9.8
Hunter Henry	TE	6	1	9	9.0
N'Keal Harry	TE	6	2	15	7.5
Brandon Bolden	RB	5	2	20	10.0
Kendrick Bourne	WR	4	2	33	16.5
Damien Harris	RB	1	0	0	—
Jakob Johnson	FB	1	1	9	9.0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	TFL	PD
Myles Bryant	CB	9	8	0	0
Kyle Van Noy	OLB	7	4	0	0
Dont'a Hightower	OLB	6	3	0	0
Ja'Whaun Bentley	ILB	6	2	0	0
Devin McCourty	FS	6	2	0	1
Jalen Mills	CB	6	6	0	0
Adrian Phillips	FS	4	0	0	1
Kyle Dugger	FS	4	4	1	0
Davon Godchaux	NT	3	0	0	0
Matt Judon	OLB	3	1	0	1
J.C. Jackson	CB	3	2	0	1
Jakobi Meyers	WR	2	2	0	0
Daniel Ekuale	DT	2	2	0	0
Lawrence Guy	DT	2	1	0	0
Jamie Collins	OLB	2	0	0	0
Brandon Bolden	RB	1	1	0	0
Chase Winovich	DE	1	1	0	0
Christian Barmore	DT	1	0	0	0
Brandon King	OLB	1	1	0	0
Jahlani Tavai	ILB	1	1	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Nick Folk	K	3

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.