(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Sunday’s National Football League games:

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Panthers 33, Patriots 30

Graham Gano made up for missing an earlier extra point by drilling a 46-yard field goal as time expired for Carolina (3-1) in the upset at New England (2-2).

The Patriots rallied from 14 points down to tie the score with 3:09 left, but a costly holding penalty against cornerback Stephen Gilmore kept a Carolina drive alive for the winning field goal.

Quarterback Cam Newton torched the shaky Patriots defense for 316 yards and three touchdowns and also ran for a score.

Newton finished 22 of 29 as Carolina became the fourth straight team to pass for over 300 yards against the Patriots.

Tom Brady, recording his 79th 300-yard game, finished 32 of 45 for 307 yards and two touchdowns.

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Texans 57, Titans 14

Rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson followed a breakout performance last weekend in New England with a record-setting display in his third career start as Houston ran roughshod over Tennessee.

Watson completed 25 of 34 attempts for 283 yards and became the first rookie quarterback to throw for four touchdowns and rush for another since Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton in 1961.

Watson tossed scoring passes of 16 and 10 yards to Will Fuller, making his first start of the season after missing three games with a broken collarbone, an eight-yard strike to DeAndre Hopkins, and another eight-yarder to Lamar Miller with 11:19 remaining in the contest.

Watson added a one-yard touchdown run late in the first half as Houston (2-2) extended to a 30-14 lead.

The Titans (2-2) did not record a first down until the second quarter and trailed 21-0 by that juncture. Tennessee also lost quarterback Marcus Mariota to a hamstring injury.

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Bills 23, Falcons 17.

Stephen Hauschka kicked fourth-quarter field goals of 56 and 55 yards and Buffalo (3-1) stopped Atlanta (3-1) on fourth down at the 10-yard line with 44 seconds left.

The Bills got a 55-yard touchdown return of a Matt Ryan fumble by Tre‘Davious White and had two interceptions against the Falcons quarterback, who played most of the game without leading receivers Julio Jones and Mohamed Sanu.

Ryan, who was 24 of 42 for 242 yards, connected with backup Justin Hardy for a three-yard touchdown with seven minutes left.

Hauschka, though, gave the Bills the lead back on his 56-yard kick with 4:44 left and then hit from 55 yards with 3:06 remaining after an interception by Micah Hyde.

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Steelers, 26, Ravens 9

Le‘Veon Bell ran for 144 yards with two touchdowns and Pittsburgh took over sole possession of first place in the AFC North with the victory at Baltimore (2-2).

Bell carried the ball 35 times, the most by a Ravens’ opponent since 2003, and also caught four passes for 42 yards.

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger completed 18 of 30 for 216 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

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Lions 14, Vikings 7

Ameer Abdullah ran for 94 yards and a touchdown, and Detroit (3-1) took advantage of three second-half fumbles to beat Minnesota (2-2).

Minnesota rookie running back Dalvin Cook had 66 yards rushing and a touchdown butleft with a knee injury in the third quarter.

Matthew Stafford was 19-of-31 passing for 209 yards and a two-point conversion through the air for Detroit, which pulled even with Green Bay in the NFC North.

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Rams 35, Cowboys 30

Los Angeles running back Todd Gurley rushed for 121 yards and caught a 53-yard touchdown pass, and kicker Greg Zuerlein booted a career-best seven field goals to lift the Rams (3-1) to the victory at Dallas (2-2).

Quarterback Jared Goff, who finished with 255 passing yards and two touchdowns, picked apart the Dallas defense as the Rams outscored the Cowboys 19-6 in the third and fourth quarters.

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Jets 23, Jaguars 20 (overtime)

New York’s Chandler Catanzaro made a 41-yard field goal with 28 seconds left in the extra period for the win over Jacksonville (2-2).

Bilal Powell had a 75-yard touchdown run and rookie Elijah McGuire had a 69-yarder for the Jets (2-2) in a ground attack that had a season-high 256 yards.

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Bengals 31, Browns 7

Quarterback Andy Dalton threw four touchdown passes to lead Cincinnati for their first win of the season.

Cleveland is 0-4 for the season and 1-22 since the 13th game of 2015.

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Saints 20, Dolphins 0

Drew Brees passed for 268 yards and two touchdowns to lead New Orleans to a shutout win over Miami at Wembley Stadium in London.

Brees completed 29 of 41 passes and the Saints (2-2) shut down the Dolphins (1-2), forcing six punts. It was the Saints’ first shutout since 2012.

Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler was 20-of-28 passing for 164 yards and the one interception.