Deebo Samuel's fifth touchdown of the 2025 season was a historic one. With a 20-yard screen pass in the third quarter of the Washington Commanders' Week 12 game against the Miami Dolphins, the gadget receiver became the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown in Madrid, Spain.

The game entered halftime knotted at six after each team hit a field goal in the first and second quarters. Samuel ended the touchdown drought with a well-drawn-up screen pass on 1st-and-10, taking a short pass from Marcus Mariota the distance to give the Commanders a 13-6 lead.

Samuel went untouched until he got inside the five-yard line, where he plowed through three Dolphins defenders to reach paydirt.

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The catch was Samuel's third of the game, giving him 22 receiving yards at the time of his score. He was unsurprisingly the leader of the Commanders' low-volume passing attack, which Mariota led without Terry McLaurin, Noah Brown, Luke McCaffrey and Week 10 leading receiver Treylon Burks.

Samuel entered the game as the Commanders' No. 1 receiver for yet another week. He joined the team in the offseason, expecting to be a complementary target to McLaurin, but the latter's injury woes have kept him off the field for most of the year.

In addition to becoming the team's top passing option, Samuel has become one of Washington's best red zone threats. The touchdown marked Samuel's second in as many weeks. His six total touchdowns are the most on the team, two more than Jacory Croskey-Merritt and Zach Ertz, who are tied for second with four each.