Will Levis knew he could not get too caught up in his mistake on Monday night. The Tennessee Titans’ rookie made a bad pitch to running back Derrick Henry in the fourth quarter against the Miami Dolphins, resulting in a fumble that eventually allowed Miami to take a 14-point lead.
However, Levis put the play behind him and directed two touchdown drives in the final four-and-a-half minutes, and Tennessee rallied to stun Miami 28-27, knocking the Dolphins out of the top spot in the American Football Conference.
“That was a nightmare,” Levis said of the turnover. “No one wanted to look at me. No one wanted to talk to me. I didn’t want to talk to anybody after that. I just wanted to move on — be ready to attack that next two-minute drive that I knew we’d be able to get.”
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The Titans (5-8) held Tua Tagovailoa and Miami’s explosive offense in check for most of the game, but still fell behind by two touchdowns in the fourth thanks to critical mistakes that gave short fields to the Dolphins (9-4). Raheem Mostert ran for touchdowns of 3 yards and 5 yards to put Miami ahead 27-13.
Levis, a second-round draft pick making his sixth career start, led a nine-play, 75-yard drive that took one minute, 54 seconds, capping it with a 3-yard touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins and a 2-point conversion throw to Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.
The Titans got a stop and Levis hit Hopkins for 28 yards and Chigoziem Okonkwo for 16 yards to get into scoring position. Derrick Henry scored on a 3-yard rush and the extra point gave the Titans a one-point lead.
Levis ripped off his helmet, screamed for joy and embraced coach Mike Vrabel on the sideline.
The Dolphins took over with no timeouts left and got to their own 45, but Harold Landry III sacked Tagovailoa to put the game away.
Miami lost at home for the first time this season, and their three-game winning streak was snapped. Baltimore now has a one-game lead for the best record in the conference.
It was the first win by a team down 14 with under three minutes left since 2016.
“Everybody thought this was going to be another Miami-Broncos 70 points put on us, but we don’t care about the outside noise,” Titans linebacker Arden Key said.
Miami played much the game without star receiver Tyreek Hill, who sat out the second quarter and majority of the third after injuring his ankle in the first quarter. He returned and caught passes of 23 and 25 yards to set up Jason Sanders’ 31-yard field goal that tied it at 13 at the beginning of the fourth.
Hill, who leads the NFL in receiving yards, was in and out of the game from there and finished with 61 yards, while Tagovailoa was 23 of 33 for 240 yards and had his streak of 21 consecutive games with a touchdown pass snapped.
Levis went 23 of 38 with a touchdown pass and an interception. Hopkins had seven catches for 124 yards, and Henry ran for two scores.
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