bengals 34, panthers 24

Joe Burrow threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns, Chase Brown ran for 80 yards and two scores and Cincinnati held on to beat Carolina on Sunday for their first win of the season.

Ja’Marr Chase had three catches for 85 yards, including a 63-yard catch-and-run touchdown as the Bengals avoided a potentially disastrous fourth straight loss to open the season. Of the 155 teams to start 0-4 since the merger, only the 1992 Chargers made the playoffs.

Andy Dalton threw for 220 yards with two touchdowns and one interception against his former team, but couldn’t quite match the magic he displayed in his first start a week ago when he led the Panthers to a 36-22 win over the Las Vegas Raiders.

commanders 42, cardinals 14

Jayden Daniels threw for 233 yards and a touchdown and ran for a score in his desert return, and Washington extended its winning streak to three with a victory over Arizona.

Daniels — the No. 2 overall pick last spring — became the fourth quarterback in the Super Bowl era to run for four touchdowns in his first four career games, joining Cam Newton, Robert Griffin III and Anthony Richardson.

Daniels also completed 26 of 30 passes and has an absurd 82% completion percentage in his short career. He hit Terry McLaurin for a 10-yard touchdown strike midway through the fourth quarter, and found Zach Ertz in the back of the end zone on the 2-point conversion, for an insurmountable 35-14 lead.

buccaneers 33, eagles 16

Baker Mayfield threw for 347 yards and two touchdowns, while Mike Evans became the Buccaneers’ career scoring leader during Tampa Bay’s victory over Philadelphia.

Mayfield, who completed 30 of 47 passes without an interception, also ran for a TD in helping the Bucs dominate the rematch of a lopsided NFC wild-card game they won against the Eagles last January.

Rebounding from a poor performance in a loss to the Broncos the previous week, Mayfield and the offense scored a touchdown on its opening possession for the first time in 21 games.

falcons 26, saints 24

Younghoe Koo kicked a 58-yard field goal with two seconds remaining and Atlanta rallied for a win over New Orleans without scoring an offensive touchdown.

Koo kicked four field goals in all, also connecting from 53, 44 and 42 yards to give the Falcons a desperately needed home victory.

They had lost their first two home games and seemed on the verge of falling to 0-3 in Atlanta when Alvin Kamara scored on a 1-yard run with a minute remaining to push the Saints to a 24-23 lead.

texans 24, jaguars 20

C.J. Stroud threw for 345 yards and two touchdowns, capped by a 1-yard pass to Dare Ogunbowale with 18 seconds left, to give Houston a win over Jacksonville.

Houston forced a three-and-out to get the ball back with less than three minutes to go.

Stroud then led a nine-play, 69-yard drive to give the Texans their first points of the second half and survive a scare by the winless Jaguars.

49ers 30, patriots 13

Brock Purdy threw a touchdown pass, Fred Warner returned an interception for a score and San Francisco snapped a two-game skid by beating New England.

After losing on the road at Minnesota and against the Los Angeles Rams the past two weeks, the Niners found their footing quickly back at home.

bears 24, rams 18

Caleb Williams led four scoring drives, D’Andre Swift had 165 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown, and Chicago held off Los Angeles.

Jaquan Brisker intercepted Matthew Stafford with about a minute remaining after the Bears punted on the previous play, helping Chicago end a two-game skid.