Game recap

Dolphins @ Raiders

2026 Wk 1 · LV 27, MIA 13

A back who reaches 100 rushing yards and also scores twice as a receiver is carrying both halves of a game plan, and Jeanty did it on a day when no Raiders wide receiver had more than 27 receiving yards. Doing it twice inside his first 18 games puts him alongside Westbrook and McCaffrey, the two backs whose receiving usage defined their offenses. For Las Vegas the number that matters is six targets, six catches: the passing game's scoring ran through the back, not the perimeter.

FanIQ Research · September 14, 2026 · 7 facts, every one from the play-by-play

Jeanty ran for 102 yards and caught two touchdowns. Twelve such games since 1999, and two are his.

Rare

Running backs with 100+ rushing yards and 2+ receiving TDs in a regular-season game, 1999 to 2026

Season	Wk	Player	Team	Opp	Rush yds	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD
2002	9	Antowain Smith	NE	BUF	111	5	31	2
2007	10	Brian Westbrook	PHI	WAS	100	5	83	2
2008	13	Brian Westbrook	PHI	ARI	110	3	20	2
2017	1	Kareem Hunt	KC	NE	148	5	98	2
2017	5	Melvin Gordon	LAC	NYG	105	6	58	2
2017	16	Todd Gurley	LA	TEN	118	10	158	2
2023	3	De'Von Achane	MIA	DEN	203	4	30	2
2023	12	Kyren Williams	LA	ARI	143	6	61	2
2023	15	Christian McCaffrey	SF	ARI	115	5	72	2
2025	4	Ashton Jeanty	LV	CHI	138	2	17	2
2025	16	Christian McCaffrey	SF	IND	117	6	29	2
2026	1	Ashton Jeanty	LV	MIA	102	6	45	2

Jeanty in this game

Carries	Rush yds	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Scrimmage yds
23	102	6	6	45	2	147

Jeanty carried 23 times for 102 yards and caught all six of his targets for 45 yards, with both touchdowns coming on 13-yard throws from Kirk Cousins. The complete list of regular-season games since 1999 with 100 rushing yards and two receiving touchdowns by one back has 12 entries. Only three players appear twice: Brian Westbrook, Christian McCaffrey, and Jeanty, who did it in his 4th career game against Chicago in Week 4 of 2025 and again here in his 18th. The other Raiders entry on the list is also his.

Why it matters. A back who reaches 100 rushing yards and also scores twice as a receiver is carrying both halves of a game plan, and Jeanty did it on a day when no Raiders wide receiver had more than 27 receiving yards. Doing it twice inside his first 18 games puts him alongside Westbrook and McCaffrey, the two backs whose receiving usage defined their offenses. For Las Vegas the number that matters is six targets, six catches: the passing game's scoring ran through the back, not the perimeter.

Cousins' second touchdown pass was his 300th. He is the tenth passer to start in 2000 or later and reach it.

Milestone

Passers with 300+ regular-season TD passes whose first season was 2000 or later

Passer	First season	Last season	TD passes	Best season
Tom Brady	2000	2022	649	50
Drew Brees	2001	2020	571	46
Aaron Rodgers	2005	2026	528	48
Philip Rivers	2004	2025	425	34
Matthew Stafford	2009	2026	423	46
Ben Roethlisberger	2004	2021	418	34
Matt Ryan	2008	2022	381	38
Eli Manning	2004	2019	366	35
Russell Wilson	2012	2025	353	40
Kirk Cousins	2012	2026	301	35

Cousins' three touchdown passes in this game

Qtr	Clock	Throw	Career No.
1	1:38	15 yards to Jack Bech	299
2	1:12	13 yards to Ashton Jeanty	300
3	10:06	13 yards to Ashton Jeanty	301

Cousins' regular-season TD passes by team

Team	Seasons	TD passes
WAS	2012 to 2017	99
MIN	2018 to 2023	171
ATL	2024 to 2025	28
LV	2026	3

Cousins entered the game with 298 regular-season touchdown passes. The 15-yard throw to Jack Bech late in the first quarter made 299, the 13-yard throw to Jeanty with 1:12 left in the half made 300, and the second Jeanty score early in the third quarter made 301. Among passers whose careers began in 2000 or later, he is the tenth to reach 300. Russell Wilson, whose first season was also 2012, sits at 353 through 2025. Cousins threw 99 of his in Washington, 171 in Minnesota and 28 in Atlanta before the first three in Las Vegas.

Why it matters. Three hundred touchdown passes is a volume and longevity mark, and Cousins reached it on his fourth team at age 38, in his first game for Las Vegas. The list of passers to get there with a career that started this century is ten names long, and Cousins got there without a monster year: his best single season was 35 touchdown passes in 2020, and only Roethlisberger and Rivers, at 34, reached 300 with a lower peak. This is a mark built across fifteen seasons of volume. Two passers who entered the league in 2012, Wilson and Cousins, are now past 300.

Last in the NFL in 2025 at minus 0.215 EPA per play, the Raiders opened at plus 0.357 through halftime.

Comparison

Offensive EPA per play, 2025 regular season (pass and run plays)

Rank	Team	Plays	EPA/play
1	NE	1017	+0.159
2	LA	1056	+0.145
3	BUF	1065	+0.136
22	MIA	942	-0.017
28	MIN	943	-0.115
29	NYJ	1009	-0.127
30	TEN	995	-0.160
31	CLE	1028	-0.190
32	LV	942	-0.215

This game by half (pass and run plays)

Team	Half	Plays	EPA/play	Success rate	Yards
LV	1st	31	+0.357	54.8%	170
LV	2nd	33	-0.412	30.3%	126
MIA	1st	25	+0.044	44.0%	151
MIA	2nd	25	-0.515	24.0%	108

Las Vegas ran 942 pass and run plays in the 2025 regular season at minus 0.215 EPA per play, 32nd of 32 teams. The first 31 plays of this game came in at plus 0.357 with a 54.8% success rate and produced a 17-6 halftime lead; no offense sustained a number that high across all of 2025, where New England led at plus 0.159. The second half was a different unit: 33 plays at minus 0.412, one of them the Cousins interception. The full-game figure of minus 0.039 on 64 plays is level with the 26th-ranked 2025 season. Miami went from plus 0.044 to minus 0.515 across the same break.

Why it matters. EPA per play is the cleanest single read on whether an offense is moving the field, and a first half at plus 0.357 from a unit that spent 2025 at the bottom is the kind of swing that a new coaching staff gets credit for: the opening drive alone went 93 yards over 16 plays and 8 minutes 53 seconds. The second-half collapse is the caution. Some of it is a 27-13 lead and 13 fourth-quarter plays that gained 14 yards on purpose, but the two halves together are still one game, and the question for Las Vegas is which half is the real baseline.

Third down flipped: Las Vegas converted 6 of 12 and Miami 2 of 10, after both ranked bottom seven in 2025.

Split

Third downs in this game (pass and run plays)

Team	Tries	Conversions	Rate
LV	12	6	50.0%
MIA	10	2	20.0%

Third-down conversion rate, 2025 regular season

Rank	Team	Tries	Conversions	Rate
1	SF	209	106	50.7%
2	GB	206	100	48.5%
3	BUF	205	95	46.3%
26	MIA	192	68	35.4%
29	LV	213	73	34.3%
32	TEN	232	74	31.9%

Red zone snaps (pass and run plays inside the 20)

Team	Span	Snaps	TD	TD per snap
LV	This game	12	3	25.0%
MIA	This game	5	1	20.0%
LV	2025 season (30th of 32)	117	18	15.4%

Las Vegas converted 6 of 12 third downs, a 50.0% rate that sits next to what San Francisco led the league with across 2025 (50.7%). The Raiders' own 2025 rate was 34.3%, 29th of 32. Miami went 2 of 10 after finishing 26th at 35.4%, and Malik Willis was sacked five times. Inside the 20 the Raiders scored touchdowns on 3 of 12 snaps; across 2025 they scored on 18 of 117, 30th in the league.

Why it matters. Third-down rate and red-zone finishing are the two situational numbers that a new play caller can move fastest, because they depend on the call sheet more than on personnel. Las Vegas was bottom four in both a year ago and won this game on exactly those downs: all three touchdowns came from inside the 20. Miami's 2 of 10 is why its 259 yards produced 13 points. Twelve and ten tries are small samples, so this reads as a one-week signal, not a new baseline.

Both head coaches were working their first NFL game. That has happened five times since 2000.

Rare

Games where both head coaches made their NFL head-coaching debut, 2000 to 2026

Season	Wk	Game	Score	Home coach	Away coach
2000	1	NYJ @ GB	NYJ 20, GB 16	Mike Sherman	Al Groh
2014	1	WAS @ HOU	HOU 17, WAS 6	Bill O'Brien	Jay Gruden
2021	1	PHI @ ATL	PHI 32, ATL 6	Arthur Smith	Nick Sirianni
2021	1	JAX @ HOU	HOU 37, JAX 21	David Culley	Urban Meyer
2026	1	MIA @ LV	LV 27, MIA 13	Klint Kubiak	Jeff Hafley

Klint Kubiak's first game as an NFL head coach came against Jeff Hafley's first. Since 2000 only five games have paired two debuting head coaches, and all five fell in Week 1. The last time was 2021, when it happened twice on the same weekend: Nick Sirianni's Eagles at Arthur Smith's Falcons, and Urban Meyer's Jaguars at David Culley's Texans. The home debutant has won three of the five; the two road winners were Al Groh's Jets in 2000 and Sirianni's Eagles in 2021.

Why it matters. Two first-time head coaches on the same field removes the usual experience edge, so the result is a cleaner read on the two rosters and the two opening game plans than a typical Week 1. Kubiak's offense scored on its first drive and led for the final 58 minutes; Hafley's defense produced two interceptions but his offense converted 2 of 10 third downs. Four of the five pairings on this list, including this one, were decided by 11 or more points; only the 2000 game, a 4-point Jets win, was close.

The Raiders' first win over Miami since 2021, by their widest regular-season margin in the series since 2007.

Milestone

Dolphins vs Raiders, every meeting since 2014

Season	Wk	Game	Score	Winner	Margin
2014	4	MIA @ LV	MIA 38, LV 14	MIA	24
2017	9	LV @ MIA	LV 27, MIA 24	LV	3
2018	3	LV @ MIA	MIA 28, LV 20	MIA	8
2020	16	MIA @ LV	MIA 26, LV 25	MIA	1
2021	3	MIA @ LV	LV 31, MIA 28	LV	3
2023	11	LV @ MIA	MIA 20, LV 13	MIA	7
2024	11	LV @ MIA	MIA 34, LV 19	MIA	15
2026	1	MIA @ LV	LV 27, MIA 13	LV	14

Every Raiders win over Miami, 1999 to 2026

Season	Round	Score	Margin
2000	Divisional	LV 27, MIA 0	27
2007	Wk 4	LV 35, MIA 17	18
2017	Wk 9	LV 27, MIA 24	3
2021	Wk 3	LV 31, MIA 28	3
2026	Wk 1	LV 27, MIA 13	14

Miami leads the series 13 to 5 across 18 meetings since 1999 and had won the last two, 20-13 in 2023 and 34-19 in 2024. The Raiders' four earlier wins in that span were a 27-0 playoff game in the 2000 season, a 35-17 game in 2007, and two 3-point games in 2017 and 2021. This 14-point margin is the largest Las Vegas has managed against Miami in a regular-season game since 2007.

Why it matters. This is a series the Raiders have lost 13 times in 18 tries, and two of their previous four wins in it were decided by 3 points. A 14-point win in which Miami never led is out of character for the matchup; the Raiders had not beaten the Dolphins by more than 3 points in a regular-season game since 2007. For Miami, it ends a run of two straight wins in the series, both by a touchdown or more.

Miami's win probability peaked at 48% on its opening drive and never got back there.

Trend

Scoring plays, with Miami's win probability before each snap

Qtr	Clock	Play	Score after	MIA win prob before
1	1:38	Cousins 15-yd TD pass to Bech	LV 7, MIA 0	31.2%
2	10:26	Gay 47-yd FG	LV 10, MIA 0	19.3%
2	4:12	Patterson 41-yd FG	LV 10, MIA 3	20.3%
2	1:12	Cousins 13-yd TD pass to Jeanty	LV 17, MIA 3	14.2%
2	0:05	Patterson 37-yd FG	LV 17, MIA 6	12.6%
3	12:52	Willis 14-yd TD run	LV 17, MIA 13	21.6%
3	10:06	Cousins 13-yd TD pass to Jeanty	LV 24, MIA 13	17.6%
3	2:38	Gay 30-yd FG	LV 27, MIA 13	7.8%

The answer drive after Miami cut it to 17-13

Clock (Q3)	Down	Play	Yards
12:37	1st and 10 at 50	Jeanty up the middle	5
12:00	2nd and 5 at MIA 45	Cousins deep left to Tucker	21
11:21	1st and 10 at MIA 24	Jeanty right end	8
10:48	2nd and 2 at MIA 16	Jeanty right guard	3
10:06	1st and 10 at MIA 13	Cousins to Jeanty, touchdown	13

Miami's win probability was 43.3% at the opening kickoff and reached 48.0% at the Las Vegas 45 on its first possession, which ended in a punt. It never got that high again. The closest the Dolphins came was 17-13 after Malik Willis's 14-yard scramble at 12:52 of the third quarter. The Raiders answered with a 5-play, 50-yard drive in 2 minutes 31 seconds, and Miami's second snap after the kickoff was the Willis interception. Miami never led, and the game was never within one score after the 10:06 mark of the third quarter.

Why it matters. A game with no lead change still has a hinge, and here it was the two minutes and 31 seconds after Miami's touchdown. A stop there gives the Dolphins the ball down four with most of the second half left; instead the Raiders needed five plays, and the next Miami possession ended in a turnover. Win probability puts numbers on how narrow the window was: Miami's best moment after the first quarter was 29.2%, at the kickoff right after its own touchdown, and it was under 18% two and a half minutes later.

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