Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua falls aft making a touchdown drawback against the Buffalo Bills, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, successful Inglewood, Calif. Photo by: Scott Strazzante / AP
By Case Keefer (contact)
Published Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026 | 4:45 p.m.
Updated 5 minutes ago
The Raiders fixed their recurring second-half issues Sunday day astatine Allegiant Stadium. They conscionable failed to amusement up for the archetypal half.
Las Vegas mislaid its 4th consecutive crippled with a 35-21 nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Rams, but the latest setback felt similar a flip of the archetypal three.
The Raiders declined down the agelong successful defeats to the Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills aft mostly decent starts. Raiders manager Klint Kubiak spent each week going into the Rams’ crippled talking astir getting his squad to support their aboriginal vigor into the 3rd quarter.
He astir apt didn’t mean astatine the behest of the opening of the game.
The Raiders played good precocious Sunday but not good capable to erase a 28-3 halftime shortage aft the Rams scored touchdowns connected 4 consecutive possessions — connected each but their game-opening thrust — earlier heading to the locker room.
The Rams showed up astatine Allegiant with a purpose, and the Raiders seemed to person nary supplication of preventing them from fulfilling it
The statement Super Bowl favourite coming into the season, the Rams severely needed a beardown effort to salvage their hopes astatine the playoffs aft losing 2 consecutive to autumn to 2-4 connected the season.
The anticipation for fans of the metallic and achromatic was that the Raiders, which were sitting astatine a astonishing 3-3 considering they were projected to beryllium 1 of the worst teams successful the NFL, had chopped into the gap.
It surely didn’t look similar it successful the archetypal fractional arsenic the Raiders’ discourtesy stumbled portion the defence looked outclassed.
Las Vegas had nary reply for either the Los Angeles tally game, which picked up 199 yards connected 38 carries, oregon prima receiver Puka Nacua, who had 7 catches for 63 yards successful the archetypal half.
Nacua, a Las Vegas native, played done a calf wounded to assistance the Rams get backmost connected track. He came up with a mates large third-down receptions and made 3 Raider miss connected the Rams’ 3rd touchdown, a 11-yard drawback to marque the people 21-3 precocious successful the 2nd quarter.
Tight extremity Davis Allen scored the Rams’ archetypal 2 touchdowns, portion pb moving backmost Kyren Williams broke escaped for a 17-yard touchdown tally with 1:19 near to play earlier halftime.
The Raiders’ discourtesy yet showed signs of beingness aft that, arsenic backmost Kirk Cousins drove it 55 yards successful conscionable much than a infinitesimal with agelong completions to receiver Tre Tucker and moving backmost Ashton Jeanty.
But Kubiak settled for an inconsequential tract extremity alternatively of throwing to the extremity portion connected the last play, and the assemblage booed the location squad arsenic they headed disconnected the tract for the interruption trailing 28-6.
Las Vegas failed to people connected its archetypal 2 drives of the 2nd fractional but the defence kept giving it chances. The Raiders claimed the game’s lone 2 takeaways for a little glimmer of hope.
First, second-year antiaircraft tackle JJ Pegues punched the shot retired of Williams’ hands with seasoned information Jeremy Chinn recovering the fumble. Las Vegas got the shot astatine Los Angeles’ 30-yard enactment pursuing the turnover but couldn’t person a archetypal down.
It had much occurrence erstwhile linebacker Nakobe Dean dove to assertion an off-target interaction walk from backmost Matthew Stafford 7 minutes later.
Cousins lofted a walk for Jeanty successful the country of the extremity portion for a 15-yard touchdown adjacent the commencement of the 4th fourth to get the largest popular of the time from the location fans. But the Raiders missed the ensuing two-point conversion — arsenic they did the thrust earlier erstwhile Tucker caught a 37-yard touchdown walk from Cousins — to support it a two-possession people astatine 28-18.
Stafford past salted the result distant by piloting a 12-play, 72-yard thrust culminating with a 4-yard tally from moving backmost Blake Corum.
Las Vegas appeared to get a cardinal third-down halt adjacent the extremity line, but it was negated for a equine collar punishment connected rookie information Treydan Stukes.
The Raiders came live successful the 2nd fractional but weren’t cleanable capable to implicit an improbable comeback. Cousins enactment up different coagulated show with 295 yards connected 26-for-44 passing.
Tucker led the receivers for the 2nd consecutive crippled with 103 yards connected 5 catches portion Jeanty hauled successful 8 catches for 61 yards. The Raiders didn’t get choky extremity Brock Bowers going until excessively late, though helium finished with six catches for 73 yards.
The Raiders’ tally crippled remained inefficient with 17 carries for 48 yards.
They needed to beryllium clicking everyplace to sound disconnected the Rams, but that didn’t happen. Las Vegas wasn’t beardown capable early.
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