Washington Commanders scored a touchdown on a play called 'Taylor Swift'

One of nan Washington Commanders' touchdowns successful their crippled past week came connected a play called “Taylor Swift.”

ASHBURN, Va. -- One of nan Washington Commanders’ touchdowns successful their big triumph past week came connected a play called “Taylor Swift.”

Carolina's defense intelligibly wasn't fresh for it.

Offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury revealed Thursday that Marcus Mariota’s first completion to tight extremity Ben Sinnott was named aft the popular star who has go one of nan faces of NFL coverage complete nan past twelvemonth aliases so.

“His first drawback was a touchdown, and nan play was called ‘Taylor Swift,’ truthful you can’t really hit that to commencement your NFL scoring career," Kingsbury said. “He was stoked astir it.”

Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight extremity Travis Kelce and has go a salient instrumentality astatine galore of his games. Kingsbury said nan play was named by nan tight ends and that he thinks Sinnott, a second-round draught pick, "must for illustration Taylor Swift connected a deeper level.”

On nan play tally from nan Carolina 3-yard line, Sinnott goes successful motion, runs to nan outside, finds a blank abstraction successful sum and catches nan walk from Mariota for illustration it was connected an invisible drawstring for an easy touchdown.

“This was caller this year,” Kingsbury said. “We astir apt carried it 3 weeks and conscionable yet sewage to calling it.”

It was nan very first clip Sinnott had a touchdown successful nan NFL, and nan past clip he did it successful a meaningful crippled was Nov. 25, 2023, erstwhile his Kansas State squad was playing against Iowa State.

“He’s been getting amended and better,” Kingsbury said. "I deliberation nan game’s slowing down for him. He’s a tremendous talent.”

Naming plays aft popular stars is thing caller for Kingsbury, considered an violative mastermind from his clip astatine Southern California and Texas Tech, who acknowledged there's “a bunch of them” successful nan playbook.

“But that’s a bully one,” he said. "We’ll usage that again.”

There's besides a play called “Kelce," though it's not clear if that's named for Travis aliases his brother, retired Philadelphia Eagles halfway Jason Kelce.

“It’s conscionable Kelce,” Kingsbury said. “They’re not, like, joined together.”

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