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Coen benched Thomas for the entire second half after he had one drop and two non-catches in the first against Houston. It sure seems like the runway for Thomas is running out in Jacksonville. A potential trade is the only fantasy salvation coming for the third-year receiver as he looks buried here.

The Jaguars did have a tight end touchdown, but unfortunately for fantasy managers it went to Nate Boerkircher on a ridiculous one-handed stab on a pop pass at the goal line. Strange has now gone for 23 targets in three games and appears to be crowding out Brian Thomas Jr. He’s a reasonable low-end TE1, albeit one on bye next week.

That’s three games with three or fewer targets and Thomas Jr. has put up back-to-back bagels in London, apparently distraught over the local cuisine. He absolutely does not have to be rostered in most fantasy leagues through Jacksonville’s Week 7 bye.

In London, where Travis Hunter’s best games live, Hunter both caught a touchdown and picked off C.J. Stroud (his first of the season), becoming the first player to do both in the same game since Brian Dawkins in 2002. Hunter did all this on just nine offensive snaps. The skill is there to do this on offense, but the Jaguars have really been defense-first with his snaps this year. Depending on the post-bye buzz, Hunter could be a reasonable pick-up in fantasy leagues ahead of Week 8’s games.

A lot of these incompletions were balls Washington got a hand on but couldn’t quite reel in as was breaking to the sideline. Washington displayed his speed and shiftiness on a 27-yard catch-and-run in the second quarter where he cut through both Texans linebackers for a big gain. He is a fantasy WR2 as the Jaguars enter their bye week. Washington is #onpace for a near-1,200 yard season with 14 touchdowns even after this dud.

It’s his highest target total of the season and the first time Meyers has managed 10 targets since Week 14 of the 2025 season. No touchdown here, but Meyers is a fine real-life third receiver who has mostly been left to the FLEX life in Jacksonville. He enters the bye as someone who can be dropped in shallow leagues in a roster crunch, but also someone solidly in the top 50 wideouts in the league on a good offense.

He failed to catch his only target. Rodriguez was churning out success rate on the regular in the first half. The Jaguars curiously went away from him in the second half, as he played just 21-of-70 snaps and had only one carry after halftime. He’s not a must-hold through the bye week, but this game is the proof-of-concept that he can be an effective weapon for the Jaguars if they want to use him as a between-the-tackles pounder.

The Jaguars looked like they were in control with their run game early in this one, but Tuten sputtered out in the second half, where he managed just six carries for 18 yards with the Jaguars curiously going away from Chris Rodriguez Jr. Tuten played 40-of-72 snaps with Rodriguez having a big day on the ground. It feels good that his “down” games are like this, and he also had a rushing touchdown pulled off the board after what appeared to be a phantom holding flag was thrown. Tuten enters the Week 7 bye as an RB2.

It could have been more, had Liam Coen not settled for a game-tying field goal on fourth-and-short with less than four minutes left in the game. It also could have been more had Lawrence not thrown an end-zone pick to Calen Bullock. At the end of the day, the screen game was dealing and Lawrence was hitting all sorts of in-breakers against a beleaguered Texans secondary. He enters the bye week as a sure-fire QB1 with 1,174 passing yards and 10 throwing touchdowns in his first five games. Last year’s rushing touchdowns appear to have vanished as the Jaguars have gotten better in the red zone, but Lawrence is still playing exceptional football.

Jones was the only Jaguar with a questionable tag headed into this contest. Brown and Matiscik were ruled out earlier in the week and the rest are healthy scratches.