Packers lead Colts 10-0 after first quarter
The Colts received the opening coin toss and deferred. Josh Jacobs did a lot of the heavy lifting on the Packers’ first sequence, speeding for 49 yards on three carries. His 34-yard run got here on first-and-20 and moved Inexperienced Bay into Indianapolis territory.
Malik Willis, beginning rather than Jordan Love, accomplished a go to the flat to Jayden Reed however it went for no achieve on third-and-7. The Packers settled for a Brayden Narveson 46-yard subject aim to take a 3-0 lead with 10 minutes, 30 seconds remaining.
Inexperienced Bay earned a three-and-out on its first defensive stand, with Isaiah McDuffie inflicting an incompletion on a third-and-7 checkdown to Jonathan Taylor within the flat.
The Packers began the sport with Reed lining up within the backfield with Jacobs, resulting in a 22-yard carry to open the following drive. Three straight Jacobs runs gained 12 yards and moved the offense to the Colts’ 48-yard line.
Emanuel Wilson powered ahead for 4 yards on third-and-2 earlier than receiver Bo Melton broke a 16-yard run off a reverse to Indianapolis 20.
Jacobs practically scored a 20-yard landing on the following play, however it was referred to as again attributable to a holding penalty on left deal with Rasheed Walker. Willis picked up 12 yards on a designed scramble to arrange third-and-4 from the Colts’ 14.
Willis threw his first profession landing go on the following play, hitting Dontayvion Wicks within the flat with the second-year receiver extending it to the tip zone for the rating.
Narveson’s additional level was partially blocked however nonetheless handed via the uprights to place the Packers up 10-0 with 3:18 left within the first quarter. The 11-play, 82-yard scoring drive lasted 6:21.
Indianapolis went hurry-up, choosing up 30 fast yards on two performs, however Richardson airmailed a deep ball to Alec Pierce, which Packers security Xavier McKinney intercepted and returned 18 yards to the Inexperienced Bay 31.
Inexperienced Bay moved to 150 speeding yards within the first quarter on a 15-yard run by Reed. Jacobs then moved the chains once more with two carries for 13 yards to the Indianapolis 41.
In accordance with Elias, the Packers’ 164 speeding yards within the first quarter had been essentially the most by a Inexperienced Bay workforce, in any quarter, since speeding for 166 yards within the third quarter of a sport in opposition to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sept. 29, 1985.