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Packers Sack Young Six Times, Hold Off Panthers

Jordan Love throws three touchdown passes and Green Bay survives three turnovers and a late Carolina rally to move to 5⁠–⁠3.

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Jordan Love threw three touchdown passes and the Green Bay Packers sacked Bryce Young six times in a 27–19 win over the Carolina Panthers, despite three turnovers of their own.

Love went 30 of 41 for 288 yards with touchdown passes to Tucker Kraft, Matthew Golden and Josh Jacobs, and one interception. Jacobs ran 21 times for 39 yards and scored twice, on a 1-yard run and a 4-yard catch.

Christian Watson caught eight passes for 113 yards. He was taken to a hospital after being hurt on a 53-yard catch, returned to the game and said he broke a rib.

Carolina cut a 27–10 deficit to 27–19 on Young's 26-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Coker with 5:37 left, and the 2-point try failed. Young went 23 of 41 for 209 yards. The Packers are 5–3, and the Panthers are 3–4.

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Jordan Love threw three touchdown passes and the Green Bay Packers sacked Bryce Young six times in a 27⁠–⁠19 win over the Carolina Panthers, despite three turnovers of their own.

Love went 30 of 41 for 288 yards with touchdown passes to Tucker Kraft, Matthew Golden and Josh Jacobs, and one interception.

Jacobs ran 21 times for 39 yards and scored twice, on a 1-yard run and a 4-yard catch.

Christian Watson caught eight passes for 113 yards, including a 53-yarder on which he was hurt and taken to a hospital. He returned to the game and said afterward that he had broken a rib.

Green Bay led 27⁠–⁠10 in the third quarter. Carolina cut it to 27⁠–⁠19 on Young's 26-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Coker with 5:37 left, and the 2-point try failed.

Young went 23 of 41 for 209 yards.

"Late in the game, it wasn't good enough," Love said. "We weren't able to finish the way we wanted. That's something we've got to improve on, clean up as an offense and be better there."

"Love the fight in the group," Panthers coach Dave Canales said. "Didn't expect anything less."

The Packers are 5⁠–⁠3 and have not allowed any of their last five opponents more than 20 points. The Panthers are 3⁠–⁠4.

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