It was another exciting week of NFL action, with eight one-score games and an overtime thriller! Below we'll look at some of the top plays from Week 2 as if we are in the film room. Enter All-22, an exclusive NFL Pro feature that allows its subscribers to watch film like the pros do. Sign up for NFL+ Premium to gain access.
What is All-22?
As the name suggests, All-22 is a wide-angle film view that allows you to see all 22 players on the field at one time. This is the film view that coaches, scouts and players use to study or review film. Because it reveals how every player is positioned during a play, it's the most comprehensive perspective for evaluating players, schemes and game strategy. It reaches beyond what is visible on a standard broadcast.
NFL+ Premium: Top All-22 plays of Week 2
This play highlights just how valuable someone like Puka Nacua is. Few receivers could be that elusive and effective out of the backfield, in addition to being such a downfield threat. After Nacua takes the handoff from Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, the free safety crashes, to no avail. Nacua was then able to evade pressure from Tennessee's linebacker and strong safety with big blocks from left tackle Alaric Jackson, who never gave up on the play. Then it was just a big mismatch: an All-Pro wide receiver versus a Titans defense that ranks last in the league in rushing yards after contact and rushing yards over expected allowed.
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When excellent play design meets excellent execution, you get 45-yard wide receiver rushing scores. The All-22 film really spotlights all of the above: the creative motion, the wall of blockers and Nacua's patient, tough running to eventually find the sideline. Poetry in motion. The Rams receiver racked up 42 yards over expected, thanks to the 48.1 yards he gained after shaking first contact from safety Xavier Woods, and he hit 19.80 mph to outrun any attempt at pursuit.
Even without this run, Nacua has been a star to start the year, with 221 receiving yards on a league-leading 18 receptions. With this run … he is the No. 1 wideout in fantasy, with 50.7 fantasy points. The only players to outscore him through two weeks are Lamar Jackson and Daniel Jones. With Stafford playing at a high level -- his 8.4% completion rate over expected is sixth-best in the league -- Nacua is firmly entrenched in the top tier of fantasy wide receivers for the rest of 2025.
Cam Ward reminded the world here why the Titans made him the No. 1 overall pick. Reminiscent of Patrick Mahomes or vintage Russell Wilson, Ward scrambles, rolls out to his right side and drops it RIGHT into the hands of a double-teamed Elic Ayomanor in the left side of the end zone. By the way, Ward does this with a linebacker and defensive tackle crashing on him. This is football in its most entertaining form!
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This might end up being the most impressive 9-yard play of the entire season. Between snap and snag, Ward scrambled for 35.5 yards running from DT Tyler Davis, and Ayomanor covered 44.51 yards to give his QB an open target. Ward bought 8.16 seconds before releasing the pass, was running 11.03 mph (to his right) when he threw it, and sent the ball 42.3 yards of air distance in the opposite direction. With all factors included, the Next Gen Stats completion probability was just 14.2%, lowest on a TD pass so far this season.
Through two weeks, Ayomanor's 198 air yards rank 16th in the NFL, which is mildly intriguing, but his incomplete air yards rank seventh, which is cause for tentative excitement. As both he and Ward continue to develop and build chemistry, several of those incompletions should become connections, and Ayomanor could go from waiver-wire sleeper to high-upside WR3 in fantasy. He's already challenging Calvin Ridley (25.0%) with a 23.2% target share and is the clear leader in Tennessee with a 40.1% air yards share. Also, while Ward is still a long way from fantasy relevance, this play was a perfect demonstration of the off-schedule heroics that made him the top pick.
The first thing that stands out in this play (before we get to the main event) is the offensive line. This is a group that has historically struggled for New York; over the last five seasons they have given up the second-most sacks in the league (272). Here, however, they held off the Cowboys for 3.54 seconds, almost an entire second longer than Russell Wilson's average time to throw this year (2.69 seconds). While that might not seem substantial, that's an eternity in the pocket. The rest, truly, is hard to explain. How does Wilson drop it right in the hands of a double-teamed Malik Nabers in the end zone? The jury is still out on that one, but it's a fun watch nonetheless.
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Wilson has always been of the league's premier deep-ball throwers, but this one was mind-boggling. The Giants QB launched this rocket when Nabers was at the 31-yard line … and he caught it 3.5 yards into the end zone. The pass was in the air for 3.2 seconds -- nearly as long as Wilson had to release it -- and Nabers hit 20.8 miles per hour to reach the landing zone right on time. Also, the All-22 sideline angle shows the crafty lean Nabers built into his route stem to force CB Kaiir Elam just a step too far outside, which made all the difference considering the one yard of separation between the two at the catch point.
Thanks in large part to this play, Nabers leads the NFL in receiving yards and his 49.8 fantasy points barely trail Puka Nacua for WR1 overall. Regardless of how long Wilson remains the quarterback (the rumblings for Jaxson Dart have not quelled after Week 2), Nabers is locked in alongside Nacua and perhaps one or two other names at the top of the fantasy rankings.
Special teams' touchdowns are always impressive, but two back-to-back is nearly unheard of. After Malik Washington takes off for 74 yards on a punt-return TD, the very next play, Antonio Gibson takes a kickoff return 90 yards to the house for a go-ahead score. This marked the second time in NFL history that a punt-return TD was immediately followed by a kick-return TD. The last time was in 1992. In fewer than 40 seconds of actual game time, 14 points were scored and over 220 yards of distance were covered. Blink and you'll miss it.
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Considering these were both special teams plays, we can't necessarily mine many fantasy treasures from their depths. Having said that, it is worth noting that through two weeks, the Dolphins have allowed 26 fantasy points to opposing D/STs, second-most in the league behind the Vikings. They've scored just 12.5 points per game, while surrendering eight sacks, four takeaways and the longest touchdown of the season so far on special teams. That makes them a top target for streaming defenses … and probably makes the Bills the top D/ST play of Week 3.
