During Thursday night’s high-scoring game against the San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley scored three touchdowns in the first half.

Gurley rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns and had five receptions for 36 yards and one receiving touchdowns in the Rams’ 41-39 win.

The former first round pick out of Georgia is the first player to score six touchdowns in his first three games of the season since former Detroit Lions and Georgia Tech wide receiver Calvin Johnson in 2011.

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Kirby Smart (left) and Georgia beat Brent Key and Georgia Tech 44-42 in eight overtimes last November in Athens. The Bulldogs and Yellow Jackets bring Clean Old-Fashioned Hate off campus for 2025, playing at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/AJC 2024)

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Atlanta art and antiques appraiser and auctioneer Allan Baitcher (right) takes bids during a 2020 auction. Baitcher and his company, Peachtree Antiques, are being sued by a Florida multimillionaire who says he paid them $20 million for fakes. (AJC 2020)

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