Detroit Lions at Dallas Cowboys, 2023-12-30

Dec 30, 2023 · 2023 WK 17 · AT&T Stadium · closed

01/How each side played it

Play log
2020–2025 only

Detroit Lions

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Pass	34	40.5%	295	8.68	1
Run	31	36.9%	125	4.03	1
Kickoff	5	6.0%	0	0.00	0
No play (penalty)	4	4.8%	0	0.00	0
Punt	4	4.8%	0	0.00	0
QB spike	3	3.6%	0	0.00	0
Field goal	2	2.4%	0	0.00	0
Extra point	1	1.2%	0	0.00	0

Dallas Cowboys

Play	N	Share	YDS	YPP	TD
Pass	41	50.6%	323	7.88	2
Run	20	24.7%	61	3.05	0
No play (penalty)	6	7.4%	0	0.00	0
Kickoff	5	6.2%	0	0.00	0
Punt	4	4.9%	0	0.00	0
Extra point	2	2.5%	0	0.00	0
Field goal	2	2.5%	0	0.00	0
QB kneel	1	1.2%	0	0.00	0

02/Box score

59 lines
Both sides

DETROIT LIONS 19

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Jared Goff	QB	19/34	271	8.0	1	2	1
Jalen Reeves-Maybin	OLB	1/1	31	31.0	0	0	0

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C	TD
Jahmyr Gibbs	RB	15	43	2.87	0
David Montgomery	RB	14	65	4.64	1
Amon-Ra St. Brown	WR	1	11	11.00	0
Jameson Williams	WR	1	6	6.00	0

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R	TD
Sam LaPorta	TE	12	7	84	12.0	0
Amon-Ra St. Brown	WR	8	6	90	15.0	1
Jahmyr Gibbs	RB	3	1	0	0.0	0
Jameson Williams	WR	3	2	69	34.5	0
Josh Reynolds	WR	2	1	13	13.0	0
David Montgomery	RB	1	0	0	—	0
Kalif Raymond	WR	1	1	11	11.0	0
James Mitchell	TE	1	1	4	4.0	0
Khalil Dorsey	CB	1	1	31	31.0	0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	SACK	TFL	INT	PD
Cameron Sutton	CB	10	10	0.0	1	0	0
Alex Anzalone	ILB	7	4	0.0	0	0	0
Derrick Barnes	ILB	5	3	0.0	1	0	0
Kerby Joseph	FS	5	5	0.0	0	0	1
Aidan Hutchinson	DE	4	4	3.0	3	0	0
Jack Campbell	ILB	4	1	0.0	0	0	0
Brian Branch	SS	4	3	0.0	0	0	2
Kindle Vildor	CB	4	3	0.0	1	0	0
Ifeatu Melifonwu	CB	2	2	0.0	0	1	1
David Montgomery	RB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Sam LaPorta	TE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Benito Jones	DT	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
John Cominsky	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Josh Paschal	DE	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
Tyson Alualu	NT	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
Jalen Reeves-Maybin	OLB	1	1	0.0	0	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Mike Badgley	K	7

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

DALLAS COWBOYS 20

PASSING

Player	POS	C/ATT	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK
Dak Prescott	QB	26/38	345	9.1	2	1	3

RUSHING

Player	POS	CAR	YDS	Y/C
Tony Pollard	RB	16	49	3.06
Dak Prescott	QB	2	5	2.50
Deuce Vaughn	RB	2	2	1.00
CeeDee Lamb	WR	1	5	5.00

RECEIVING

Player	POS	TGT	REC	YDS	Y/R	TD
CeeDee Lamb	WR	17	13	227	17.5	1
Brandin Cooks	WR	8	5	60	12.0	1
Jake Ferguson	TE	6	4	33	8.3	0
Tony Pollard	RB	3	1	0	0.0	0
Deuce Vaughn	RB	1	1	10	10.0	0
Jalen Tolbert	WR	1	1	9	9.0	0
Peyton Hendershot	TE	1	1	6	6.0	0

DEFENSE

Player	POS	TKL	SOLO	SACK	TFL	INT	PD
Donovan Wilson	SS	9	4	0.0	0	1	1
Jayron Kearse	FS	8	5	0.0	0	0	1
Markquese Bell	FS	8	6	0.0	1	0	0
Jourdan Lewis	CB	6	3	0.0	0	1	2
Demarcus Lawrence	DE	5	3	0.0	2	0	1
Micah Parsons	DE	4	3	0.0	1	0	0
Dorance Armstrong	DE	3	3	1.0	1	0	0
Daron Bland	CB	3	3	0.0	0	0	0
Osa Odighizuwa	DT	2	0	0.0	0	0	0
Damone Clark	ILB	2	1	0.0	0	0	0
CeeDee Lamb	WR	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Jalen Tolbert	WR	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Carl Davis	NT	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
Chauncey Golston	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Neville Gallimore	NT	1	0	0.0	0	0	0
Sam Williams	DE	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Dante Fowler	OLB	1	1	0.0	1	0	0
Juanyeh Thomas	FS	1	1	0.0	0	0	0
Stephon Gilmore	CB	1	0	0.0	0	0	0

KICKING

Player	POS	PTS
Brandon Aubrey	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.