Brock Bowers, Talanoa Hufanga & Tyler Loop Named Week 3 AFC Players of the Week

Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers, Denver Broncos safety Talanoa Hufanga and Baltimore Ravens kicker Tyler Loop are the AFC Offensive, Defensive and Special Teams Players of the Week for games played in Week 3 (September 24, 27-28).

OFFENSE: TE BROCK BOWERS, LAS VEGAS RAIDERS

• Bowers recorded 10 receptions for 116 yards, the most of any tight end in Week 3 and added a fourth-quarter touchdown reception to secure Las Vegas’ 35-27 win at New Orleans. This marked Bowers’ sixth career game with at least 10 receptions, the most by a tight end in his first three seasons in NFL history.
• This is Bowers’ first career Offensive Player of the Week Award. He joins Mike Dyal (Week 13, 1989) as the only Raiders tight ends to win the award.
• Bowers is the first former Georgia tight end to win Offensive Player of the Week.

DEFENSE: S TALANOA HUFANGA, DENVER BRONCOS

• Hufanga recorded five tackles, three passes defensed, a sack and two interceptions, including one that he returned for a 66-yard touchdown, he became the first player since 1982, when the individual sack became an official statistic, to record a sack and multiple interceptions, including an interception return of 50-or-more yards for a touchdown, in a single quarter of a single game, which he accomplished during the fourth quarter of last week’s game.
• This is Hufanga’s first-career Defensive Player of the Week award, making him one of three Broncos safeties to win the honor in the past 10 seasons (2017-28), joining Kareem Jackson (Week 14, 2019) and Justin Simmons (Week 8, 2023).
• Hufanga becomes the fourth former USC safety to win the honor since 2000, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu (six-time winner), Sammy Knight (two) and Isaiah Pola-Mao (Week 16, 2024).

SPECIAL TEAMS: K TYLER LOOP, BALTIMORE RAVENS 

• Loop converted both of his field goal attempts (27, 56) and all four of his point after attempts in the Ravens’ 34-31 win over Dallas. Loop’s 56-yard field goal came as time expired, giving Baltimore the win in the first-ever regular-season game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• This is Loop’s first-career Player of the Week award. He becomes the third Ravens kicker to earn the honor, joining Justin Tucker (12-time winner) and Matt Stover (six), and the first since 2021.
• Loop becomes the second former Arizona kicker to win a Special Teams Player of the Week award, joining Nick Folk (10-time winner).