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Watch: The Best Plays from Aaron Jones’ Big Night

Watch highlights of Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones' big game against the Buffalo Bills and read what he had to say afterward.

Bill Huber

Watch: The Best Plays from Aaron Jones’ Big Night
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers lost to the Buffalo Bills 27-17 on Sunday night, but Aaron Jones did his part to keep them competitive against one of the best teams in the NFL.

Jones carried 20 times for 143 yards (7.2 average) and added four receptions for 14 yards. By our obviously unofficial live tracking, we charted Jones for forcing 14 missed tackles. His big night didn’t come against a Charmin-soft defense. Rather, Buffalo entered Week 8 ranked No. 1 in rushing yards allowed per game and per carry.

“The guys up front and the whole blocking unit did a great job,” Jones said. “I knew at some point we were going to have to run the ball, and I think we established that pretty early and leaned on it. I feel like we did a great job in the run game. We just got to keep going, keep digging.”

The previous two games, losses to the Giants and Commanders, Jones had 17 carries for 42 yards.

“Definitely did feel like we took a step this week,” Jones said. “I think we looked a lot better. Moving the ball a lot better, time of possession, first downs, yardage, all of that. From that standpoint, yes but there’s still some conversions we’ve got to pick up.”

One of those moments came on the second play of the fourth quarter. Trailing 27-10 and facing a fourth-and-1 from the Bills’ 26, the Packers needed a touchdown. Instead, defensive end Von Miller plowed right tackle Yosh Nijman right into Jones, resulting in a loss of 1 and key turnover on downs.

It was about the only time all night that Jones was stopped.

However, the loss put an end into two dominating trends. The Packers had been 8-0 when Jones gets at least 18 carries and were 16-1 when Jones reaches 90 rushing yards.

“We got all the talent in this locker room that we need,” Jones said. “We’ve just go to put it together now.”

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Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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