Top 5 Must-See Plays from Week 7 (Video)

Here are the top five must-see plays from Week 7 in the NFL:

Great Tate

The Detroit Lions looked all but cooked down 23-10 with just under four minutes left against the New Orleans Saints. But that's when they received a golden moment. Golden Tate ran a simple out route and caught the ball from Matthew Stafford with several Saints defenders closing in. And that's when Tate turned on the jets. He raced 73 yards for the score, past half the Saints' defense, in what would become an improbable 24-23 Lions victory.

Eat your heart out, Elway

John Elway's helicopter manuever after his run in Super Bowl XXXII is the most famous version of the helicopter, but Jamaal Charles' imitation in Week 7 wasn't too shabby. Charles raced 16 yards for the tone-setting score in a crucial win over the San Diego Chargers and was flung around by a hard hit near the goal line by former teammate Brandon Flowers. But don't overlook what Charles did prior to that — it was a great run.

Walk-off touchdown

The Buffalo Bills were down to their last at-bat against the Minnesota Vikings, with five seconds left and down six points. Chris Hogan set up the play from the Vikings 2-yard line with a fine 28-yard catch, but there was no doubt where the next pass was going. Kyle Orton wanted Sammy Watkins, who caught a touchdown earlier in the game, and the rookie rewarded him by hanging on for the game-winning score with two seconds left.

He went where?

In one of the more bizarre fake-outs you might ever see on a punt return, the St. Louis Rams' Stedman Bailey fielded the ball clear across the field from where nearly everyone for the Seattle Seahawks were covering the punt. That's because the majority of the Rams' blockers and decoy returner Tavon Austin were standing. Bailey, the gunner on the play, caught the kick and raced 89 yards for the completely improbable touchdown.

Walking the tightrope

Have you noticed how solid Indianapolis Colts tight end Dwayne Allen has been recently? Andrew Luck has. That's why Luck was more than willing to look Allen's direction on a key third down early in the third quarter. Allen did the rest — he tightroped the sideline, evaded three Cincinnati Bengals defenders and got into the end zone for a fine 32-yard score in the shutout victory.

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