EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Perhaps Alec Ogletree was on to something.
The Los Angeles Rams middle linebacker, who came up with the clinching interception, recently suggested that punter Johnny Hekker might be the team's first-half MVP. And on Sunday, in a 9-6 victory over the New York Jets, Hekker validated Ogletree's point.
Hekker at one point pinned the Jets at their own 1-yard line, then boomed a 78-yard punt that sent them to the 15.
"I'm going to tell my kids it was a 100-yard punt," Rams quarterback Case Keenum said.