Panthers win shootout, on Rico Dowdle’s second straight large day

CHARLOTTE — The Panthers received themselves in a shootout with the league’s No. 1-ranked offense on Sunday.

The Panthers took a 30-27 win over the Cowboys Sunday at Bank of America Stadium, capitalizing on one other large day from operating again Rico Dowdle, this time in opposition to his former staff.

Dowdle completed the day with 183 dashing yards and 239 from scrimmage to go together with his landing.

After final week’s 206 dashing, 234 from scrimmage day in opposition to the Dolphins, it made it the most efficient two-game stretch for a Panthers participant in franchise historical past.

It surpassed the 416 yards by Christian McCaffery in video games in opposition to the Texans and Jaguars in 2019. He’s additionally the primary participant within the NFL to top200 scrimmage yards in back-to-back weeks since Dalvin Cook in 2020.

But for any of that to matter, it required a fourth-down conversion from Bryce Young to Hunter Renfrow, Renfrow’s solely catch of the day.

That allowed them to expire the clock, and arrange Ryan Fitzgerald’s 33-yard game-winning area aim.

It marked the primary time since 2022 the Panthers have received three straight residence video games, and evened their document at 3-3, as they head to New York to play the winless Jets this week.