NFL Week 8 · chalk talk

Nobody's perfect now. Detroit takes down the 6⁠–⁠0 Vikings.

Minnesota's unbeaten season ended in Detroit, Denver stopped Kansas City four times inside the 10 to take the AFC West, and Tampa Bay beat Atlanta without completing a single pass. Chicago visits Seattle tonight.

Monday, November 2, 2026 · results through Sunday Night Football

The two games that moved the board

One ended the league's last perfect record. The other flipped the top of the AFC West in the final 35 seconds.

Early window · Ford Field
DET 19 · MIN 15

Minnesota went ahead 15⁠–⁠12 in the fourth quarter on a T.J. Hockenson touchdown and a Jordan Addison two-point catch. Detroit answered with a drive that ended with Jared Goff finding Jameson Williams at the back of the end zone from the 7.

  • Jahmyr Gibbs: 23 carries, 153 yards, and a 30-yard touchdown run. It was his 10th score of the season, his fourth straight year in double digits.
  • The Vikings blitzed Goff on a career-high 83% of his dropbacks, but Detroit ran for 230 yards and held Minnesota to 266 total yards and 3 of 10 on third down.
  • Kyler Murray: 17 of 29, 210 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INT. Lions 5⁠–⁠2, Vikings 6⁠–⁠1. No NFL team is unbeaten.
Late window · Denver
DEN 28 · KC 24

Denver trailed 24⁠–⁠13 entering the fourth and scored 15 straight. Jonah Coleman's 51-yard catch-and-run and 5-yard touchdown put the Broncos up with 1:56 left. Then Kansas City reached first-and-goal at the 4 with 35 seconds to go.

  • The stand: Patrick Surtain II stopped Kenneth Walker III at the 1, a pass fell incomplete, and JL Skinner stuffed Walker again.
  • On fourth down, an apparent Mahomes touchdown to Rashee Rice was wiped out by a false start on right tackle Jaylon Moore. From the 6, with four seconds left, Malcolm Roach sacked Mahomes.
  • Bo Nix: 20 of 32, 222 yards, 2 TDs. Mahomes: 30 of 41, 321 yards, 3 TDs. Broncos 6⁠–⁠2, Chiefs 5⁠–⁠2.

The whole slate

Winners circled. Times Central. Byes: Texans, Saints, Giants, 49ers.

Numbers worth chalking up

0 of 3

Tampa Bay's passing

The Bucs won without a completion, the first NFL team to do it since the 1974 Bills. They had minus-2 net passing yards after a sack, and set a franchise rushing record.

462

Burrow's passing yards

38 of 48 with five touchdown passes and the overtime touchdown run. It was his third straight game with four or more TD passes.

8 sacks

Pittsburgh on Watson

A season high against Cleveland, as the Steelers won their 23rd straight regular-season home game over the Browns, tying the NFL record for one opponent.

4 for 4

Minshew off the bench

Four touchdown drives on his first four possessions: 17 of 23, 188 yards, three TDs. Tyler Allgeier added 147 rushing yards as Arizona's only healthy back.

95 yds

Laube's return

Dylan Laube's kickoff return touchdown for Las Vegas was the first kickoff return score anywhere in the league this season.

0⁠–⁠7

The Chargers

The league's only winless team, off to its worst start since 2000. Herbert has thrown an interception in all seven games.

The magnet board

Flip the switch and watch the magnets slide. Arrows show each team's change in place within its division. Gray magnets were on a bye; Chicago and Seattle play tonight.

Ordered by win percentage (a tie counts as half a win). Teams level on percentage keep a fixed board order; these are not official tiebreakers. "Before" records include last Monday's Dallas win over Philadelphia; "after" records are from CBS Sports' Week 8 scoreboard.

Still to play

Sources

  1. NFL.com: Week 8, what we learned from Sunday's games
  2. ESPN: Week 8 Sunday takeaways and questions
  3. ESPN: Week 8 highlights
  4. CBS Sports: Week 8 scoreboard and records
  5. Detroit Lions: Lions vs. Vikings recap
  6. ProFootballTalk: Broncos' goal-line stand holds off Chiefs
  7. CBS Sports: the false start that erased a Chiefs touchdown
  8. Bengals.com: Bengals 43, Titans 36 notes
  9. CBS Sports: Bengals-Titans final is a first in NFL history
  10. ProFootballTalk: Minshew rallies Cardinals in overtime
  11. Yahoo Sports: Bucs win without completing a pass
  12. ESPN: Steelers 27, Browns 6 recap
  13. ProFootballTalk: Ravens lose Jackson, fall to Bills
  14. ESPN: Raiders 38, Jets 33 recap
  15. ESPN: Patriots 24, Dolphins 19 recap
  16. ESPN: Rams 24, Chargers 9 recap
  17. Philadelphia Eagles: Commanders 27, Eagles 10
  18. The Sports Encounter: Week 8 results roundup
  19. AP via ABC11: Packers 27, Panthers 19
  20. Seahawks.com: how to watch Seahawks vs. Bears