NFL Week 6 wrap: 49ers star Fred Warner carted off with devastating leg injury vs Bucs

Warner, a four-time Pro Bowler and already up to 51 combined tackles, was stuck in a cluster of players during a Raachad White run when safety Ji’Ayir Brown appeared to roll over his right leg.

The entire 49ers sideline came onto the field as trainers examined him, placed his leg into an aircast and drove him off the Raymond James Stadium field.

Warner, 28 and a third-round pick in 2018, had become the centrepiece of the San Francisco defence, which entered Sunday tied for the sixth-best mark in the league for points allowed per game (19.6) under defensive co-ordinator and former Jets head coach Robert Saleh.

The unit’s strong performance has helped the 49ers overcome a Brock Purdy injury — with their starting quarterback missing his fourth game Sunday with a toe injury — while adjusting to backup quarterback Mac Jones.

San Francisco led the Buccaneers, 10-7, midway through the second quarter after Christian McCaffrey scored a touchdown.

The Kansas City Chiefs righted the ship with a convincing 30-17 NFL victory over the in-form Detroit Lions.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw for three touchdowns and ran for another as Kansas City rebounded from a shock loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars and snapped Detroit’s four-game winning streak.

The night ended in a mass shoving match after Lions safety Brian Branch took a swing at Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster -- who appeared irked that Branch had ignored Mahomes’s offer of a post-game high-five.

That didn’t stop Mahomes from savoring a victory in which the Chiefs looked more like the team that reached the last three Super Bowls, winning two straight before falling to Philadelphia last season.

“That’s a good football team and it showed what we can do,” Mahomes said. “We’ve been getting better and better each and every week. The results haven’t been paying off but it’s good to get one here at home and we’ll try to carry this momentum into the next game.” Mahomes threw for 257 yards, notching his 300th career touchdown pass when he connected with Xavier Worthy on a six-yarder to put Kansas City up 6-3.

Detroit responded with a touchdown, but Kansas City took the lead for good on a one-yard TD run by Mahomes, who later found Marquise “Hollywood” Brown for two TDs.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift was at Arrowhead Stadium to cheer on Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who caught six passes for a season-high 78 yards.

It was the first time Swift has been caught on camera at a game since she and Kelce announced their engagement in August.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Rams shook off a slow start with a quick-fire pair of third-quarter touchdowns to hand the reeling Baltimore Ravens a 17-3 NFL defeat on Sunday.

It was tied at 3-3 at halftime after the Rams thwarted Baltimore on four attempts to score from less than five yards out, Los Angeles ending the goal line stand by stopping Derrick Henry on fourth down.

The Rams took the lead on Kyren Williams’ three-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter and after Zay Flowers fumbled on Baltimore’s ensuing possession, Los Angeles needed just two plays to hit the end zone again on Matthew Stafford’s eight-yard pass to Tyler Higbee.

Stafford, who connected on 17 of 26 passes for 181 yards and the touchdown, credited the Rams defence with coming through on a “weird” windy day in Baltimore.

“Obviously (we) fed off our defence and special teams getting the ball back for us a couple of times,” Stafford said.

“Just a weird one,” he added.

“Didn’t execute as good as we possibly can, missed some opportunities to score touchdowns in the red zone but found a way to win, which is what matters most.”

In their second straight game without injured star quarterback Lamar Jackson, the Ravens fell to 1-5 – extending the team’s worst start to a season since 2015 and casting further doubt on their chances of turning things around in time to reach the postseason.

Cooper Rush’s struggles in place of Jackson saw the Ravens send in Tyler Huntley in the fourth quarter.

The Indianapolis Colts continued their strong start, improving to 5-1 with a 31-27 home victory over the Arizona Cardinals – who saw tight end Travis Vokolek stretchered off early with a frightening neck injury.

Coming off a blowout victory over the Raiders, the Colts had to rally to remain unbeaten at home.

PANTHERS STUN COWBOYS

Jonathan Taylor plunged in for a touchdown with 4:32 remaining to put Indianapolis up 31-27 and the Colts defence stymied a potential go-ahead drive by Arizona in which quarterback Jacoby Brissett marched the Cardinals 78 yards but after a third-down sack came up short on an attempt to Trey McBride in the end zone.

Last minute field goals lifted the Carolina Panthers and Los Angeles Chargers to victories, the Panthers shocking the Cowboys 30-27 in Charlotte and the Chargers edging the Dolphins 29-27 in Miami.

Panthers running back Rico Dowdle rushed for 183 yards with 56 receiving yards and a touchdown against his former team and Ryan Fitzgerald booted the game-winning field goal on the final play.

“They wasn’t buckled up,” Dowdle said of a Dallas team that let him depart as a free agent after last season.

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert escaped pressure to hit Ladd McConkey for a 42-yard gain and set up Cameron Dicker’s fifth field goal, a 33-yarder with five seconds left to seal their win.

The day’s action started in London, where the Denver Broncos sacked New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields nine times on the way to a 13-11 victory.

The Broncos trailed 11-10 after giving up a safety in the third quarter. But Wil Lutz’s 27-yard field goal with 5:06 remaining put them back in front and Jonathon Cooper and Justin Strnad sacked Fields to seal a win that dropped the Jets to 0-6.