{"id":393693,"date":"2025-09-24T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/393693\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:42:13","slug":"jordan-davis-made-eagles-history-by-earning-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/393693\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Davis made Eagles history by earning NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/philadelphia-eagles-dt-jordan-davis-160737730.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Davis was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davis was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/nfl-world-reacts-jordan-davis-202056517.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:he returned a blocked field goal 61 yards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he returned a blocked field goal 61 yards<\/a> for a touchdown as time expired to give the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eagles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eagles<\/a> a 33-26 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rams<\/a> in Week 3. Davis made history with the incredible feat, becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eagles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eagles<\/a> defensive tackle to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>Per Next Gen Stats, he is the heaviest player (336 pounds) in NFL history to return a blocked kick 50-or-more yards for a touchdown and reached a top speed of 18.59 mph on the return, the fastest speed by a player over 330 pounds since at least 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Davis becomes the second former University of Georgia defensive lineman to win Special Teams Player of the Week, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour (two-time winner).<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Eagles Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2025\/09\/24\/jordan-davis-eagles-history-nfc-special-teams-player-of-the-week\/86328833007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jordan Davis named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jordan Davis named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Davis was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after he returned a blocked field goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[68230,25,7,479,6,6436,242,109,2476,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-393693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-blocked-field-goal","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jordan-davis","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-history","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","17":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115260276375310380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}