The Los Angeles Rams beat the Las Vegas Raiders 35-21 at Allegiant Stadium, leading 28-6 at halftime before holding off a fourth-quarter Raiders rally to improve to 3-4, while Las Vegas fell to 3-4 with a fourth straight loss.
The Los Angeles Rams beat the Las Vegas Raiders 35-21 on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium in Week 7 of the NFL season. Los Angeles led 28-6 at halftime and held the third quarter scoreless, before Las Vegas scored twice early in the fourth quarter to cut the lead to seven. The Rams answered with a 12-play, 66-yard touchdown drive that consumed more than half of the final 13 minutes to close out the win.
Matthew Stafford threw for 195 yards and three touchdowns on 23 of 29 passing, with one interception. Kyren Williams ran 16 times for 99 yards and a touchdown, Blake Corum added 93 rushing yards and a score, and Puka Nacua caught eight passes for 68 yards and a touchdown. For Las Vegas, Kirk Cousins threw for 295 yards and two touchdowns without an interception, Tre Tucker had 103 receiving yards, and Ashton Jeanty was held to 15 rushing yards on eight carries.
The win snaps a two-game skid for Los Angeles, which improves to 3-4. The Raiders fall to 3-4 with a fourth straight loss, four weeks after starting the season 3-0 behind an offence that had been firing on all cylinders. The running game that carried Las Vegas early in the season produced almost nothing on Sunday, with Jeanty's 15 yards the clearest sign of the problem.
The score and the individual figures come from the ESPN box score and the league scoreboard accounts, which agree across the reports used here. The quarter-by-quarter split, 7-3, 21-3, 0-0 and 7-15, reconciles with the final score and with the reported closing drive. Nothing in the result is disputed; the only judgement in this report is the framing of the Raiders' slide, which rests on the 3-0 start and four straight losses that the standings show.
For Los Angeles, the win keeps a season that had slipped to two straight defeats from sliding further, with the running game and Stafford's efficiency doing the work. For Las Vegas, the question is whether an offence that scored freely in September can find a running game again. Both teams play again in Week 8, when the Raiders' slide and the Rams' recovery get their next test.