Eagles handle Packers in wild-card win to reach divisional round - ESPN

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts tossed two touchdown passes in his first game since a late-season concussion, Dallas Goedert threw three stiff-arms on a rugged touchdown catch and the Philadelphia Eagles rode their NFL-best defense to a 22-10 wild-card playoff win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night.

Hurts threw for a modest 131 yards but played with no hesitation in his return from a three-week layoff after a concussion in December. He started strong — six straight completions to open the game — and held off the Packers with a 24-yard touchdown pass to Goedert in the third quarter that will be forever stamped on the franchise's postseason highlight reel.

Philadelphia's defense handled the rest.

The Eagles turned a recovered fumble on the opening kickoff into Hurts' first TD pass three plays later, and the defense picked off Jordan Love twice in the first half. Holding a 19-10 lead in the fourth, the Eagles forced a turnover on downs when Green Bay had a fourth-and-3 on its own 41 with five minutes left in the game.

Quinyon Mitchell had one final interception of Love with 1:51 left in the game that sealed the win for the NFC East champions, who'll host a division game next week at the Linc.

«It's playoff football,» running back Saquon Barkley said. «That team is really well coached and they've got a lot of really great players. We knew it wasn't going to be easy.

»At the end of the day, no matter how it looks, just want to get the win."

Barkley, who led the NFL in rushing with 2,005 yards, had 119 yards in his Eagles postseason debut.

«A year ago, I put out a tweet when I was on my couch watching playoff football that I got to find a way to get back in it,» said Barkley, who spent his first six NFL seasons with the New