The Jaguars will be missing a key piece on their defensive line in Tennessee on Sunday.
Defensive tackle Arik Armstead will not play against the Titans. Armstead was listed as questionable because of a hand injury. Armstead has 23 tackles, 5.5 sacks and a forced fumble this season.
The Jaguars are 7-4 heading into Sunday’s game. A win and a Colts loss would draw them even in the AFC South ahead of a Week 14 matchup between the teams.
Jaguars at Titans
Jaguars: DT Arik Armstead, WR Dyami Brown, DE Travon Walker, G Patrick Mekari, OL Chuma Edoga, RB Cody Schrader, TE Hunter Long, LB Yasir Abdullah
Titans: WR Mason Kinsey, CB Jalyn Armour-Davis, S Jerrick Reed, S Kendell Brooks, G Drew Moss, C Lloyd Cushenberry, DT Shy Tuttle
49ers at Browns
49ers: RB Jordan James, WR Jordan Watkins, OL Connor Colby, DE Sam Okuayinonu, DL Kevin Givens, LB Tatum Bethune, K Eddy Pineiro
Browns: G Zak Zinter, OT Cornelius Lucas, WR Jamari Thrash, TE Brenden Bates, DE Alex Wright, DT Adin Huntington
Texans at Colts
Texans: WR Braxton Berrios, QB Graham Mertz, LB Jamal Hill, OT Jarrett Kingston, G Laken Tomlinson
Colts: CB Jonathan Edwards, TE Tyler Mallory, RB DJ Giddens, DT Eric Johnson, S Reuben Lowery, OT Luke Tenuta
Saints at Dolphins
Saints: RB Alvin Kamara, OT Barry Wesley, TE Zaire Mitchell-Paden, DT John Ridgeway, DT Khristian Boyd, S Ugo Amadi, CB Rejzohn Wright
Dolphins: QB Quinn Ewers, CB AJ Green, LB Andre Carter, WR Tahj Washington, DT Matthew Butler
Falcons at Jets
Falcons: WR KhaDarel Hodge, WR Drake London, LB Josh Woods, OL Michael Jerrell, WR Casey Washington, DL Elijah Garcia.
Jets: CB Jarvis Brownlee, RB Khalil Herbert, EDGE Braiden McGregor, DL Mazi Smith, WR Arian Smith, TE Jalani Woods, DL Tyler Baron
Rams at Panthers
Rams: QB Stetson Bennett, RB Jarquez Hunter, CB Derion Kendrick, OL Beaux Limmer, DE Desjuan Johnson
Panthers: CB Jaycee Horn, WR Hunter Renfrow, LB Claudin Cherelus, LB Christian Rozeboom, C Cade Mays, DT Jared Harrison-Hunte, DT Cam Jackson
Cardinals at Buccaneers
Cardinals: OL Hayden Conner, RB Emari Demercado, CB Elijah Jones, CB Max Melton, DL Walter Nolen, S Dadrion Taylor-Demerson
Buccaneers: QB Connor Bazelak, CB Benjamin Morrison, S Kaevon Merriweather, G Luke Haggard, G Elijah Klein, DL Elijah Simmons
Jaguars Clips
The Jaguars have become a viable playoff contender, with a 7-4 record. Those wins have come despite more than a few mistakes from quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Lawrence leads the league with 14 turnovers. Last week against the Cardinals, Lawrence had four. The Jaguars nevertheless pulled out an overtime win, 27-24.
Jacksonville, which is now one game behind the 8-3 Colts for the AFC South lead, faces the Titans on Sunday. The Jaguars then host the Colts and Jets before traveling to Denver and Indy. The Jaguars end the season with a home game against the Titans.
With 14 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions, Lawrence has a passer rating of 79.4. He’s second to last among all qualifying quarterbacks, ahead of only Titans rookie Cam Ward.
Regardless, the Jags are winning. They’re in a three-way tie for the three wild-card spots in the AFC, with the Bills and Chargers. If the Jags keep winning, Lawrence could get to the postseason for the second time in his five-year career.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has already earned a first-ballot bronze bust. But he surely wants more.
This year, more may not be in the cards.
A Thanksgiving loss to the Cowboys has dropped the Chiefs to 6-6, with five games to play. While they’re not officially done, they may have to run the table in order to get an invitation to the playoff party.
The remaining schedule looks like this: Texans, Chargers, at Titans, Broncos, at Raiders. Two games should be easy wins. As to the other three, who knows?
“If we’re gonna make the playoffs,” Mahomes told reporters after the game, “we’re gonna have to win them all.”
Winning out will definitely make it easier; an 11-6 finish should be good enough to get one of the seven AFC postseason spots. The problem becomes tiebreakers. They’ve lost to the Chargers, Jaguars, Bills, and Broncos. A tie for the seventh spot with any of them will knock the Chiefs out.
The Week 5 Monday night loss in Jacksonville could come back to haunt the Chiefs. If the Jaguars beat the Titans on Sunday, they’ll have a two-game lead over the Chiefs, along with a tiebreaker fueled by the bizarre play from quarterback Trevor Lawrence, where he fell down twice before running in for a game-winning touchdown.
Again, the Chiefs are still alive. But these Chiefs look nothing like the Chiefs have looked since 2018.
Those Chiefs wouldn’t be 6-6. And those Chiefs would have found a way to beat the Cowboys today.
The Jaguars could be getting some help in their secondary in the near future.
Safety Eric Murray was designated for return from injured reserve on Wednesday. The move opens a 21-day window for him to practice before he must be activated or shut down for the season. Murray can be activated at any point in that window.
Murray started the first seven games of the season, but has missed the last four games with a neck injury.
Murray had 34 tackles, an interception and four passes defensed before going on injured reserve. The 10-year veteran joined the Jaguars this offseason after playing for the Texans, Browns and Chiefs earlier in his career.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced 26 modern era semifinalists for election to the Class of 2026 on Tuesday.
Quarterback Drew Brees and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald are two of the five players who have reached this point in the process in their first year of eligibility. Quarterback Philip Rivers, running back Frank Gore, and tight end Jason Witten are the other members of the group that played their final game in 2020.
Offensive tackle Lomas Brown, who retired after the 2002 season, and defensive lineman Kevin Williams, whose last season was 2015, are the other first-time semifinalists.
Four players who were among the seven finalists for election last year were automatically moved to the semifinalist stage this year. They are offensive tackle Willie Anderson, wide receiver Torry Holt, linebacker Luke Kuechly, and kicker Adam Vinatieri.
The other 15 semifinalists also return from last year. They are quarterback Eli Manning; running back Fred Taylor; wide receivers Steve Smith, Hines Ward, and Reggie Wayne; offensive linemen Jahri Evans, Richmond Webb, Steve Wisniewski, and Marshal Yanda; defensive backs Rodney Harrison, Earl Thomas, and Darren Woodson; edge rushers Terrell Suggs and Robert Mathis; and defensive lineman Vince Wilfork.
The Hall of Fame selection committee will pare the group of 25 down to 15 names that will be announced next month. Those 15 players will join three senior candidates, a coaching candidate and a contributor candidate in consideration for election at the selection committee’s meeting next year.
The Colts had an 11-point lead over the Chiefs heading into the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game, but they weren’t able to finish off their ninth win of the regular season.
A Kareem Hunt touchdown run, a two-point conversion and a field goal tied the game and the Chiefs won it on another Harrison Butker kick in overtime. The Colts went three-and-out on each of their final four possessions, which left cornerback Charvarius Ward to say that he feels the Colts are close to being a real contender but are “not there yet” after failing to finish off the Chiefs.
“We gotta learn how to win these type of games,” linebacker Zaire Franklin said, via the team’s website. “The learning curve can’t be long. I feel like we didn’t play up to the standard that we wanted to play at, but credit to them — they’ve been in that type of situation and made the plays that they had to make. . . . They made championship-level plays. And we gotta be better if we’re going to be the type of team we want to be this year.”
The Colts won five blowouts during a 7-1 start to the season, but they’ve lost two of their last three games and their most recent win came in overtime against the Falcons. They remain in first place in the AFC South, but they’re just a game up on the Jaguars and two games up on the Texans with four of their final six games coming against those divisional foes. The other two are against the Seahawks and 49ers, so now would be a good time for the Colts to show that they’ve learned the necessary lessons from Sunday’s loss.
The Jaguars pulled out an overtime win in Arizona on Sunday and quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s three touchdown passes helped get them that victory.
Lawrence’s four turnovers also kept the Cardinals in the game. They returned a fumble for a touchdown and one of Lawrence’s three interceptions set up a touchdown in the fourth quarter of the game.
After the win, Lawrence acknowledged that he has to take better care of the ball but said he won’t compromise the aggressiveness that he plays with in order to make that happen.
“People can watch the tape and make their own judgments,” Lawrence said, via the team’s website. “I’ll watch it and do the same. [I] had some tough plays out there. Those guys make good plays as well. I have to be smart with the ball. We had four turnovers and they were all on me. I own that. I have to do my job, take care of the ball and not put our defense in tough spots. Totally get that. I’m never going to play scared. I’m going to continue to let it rip and I think that’s why we had a chance at the end of the day is because you keep playing. Never going to apologize for that, but I will say cannot turn the ball over four times. I own that and I have to clean that up.”
Sunday’s win moved the Jaguars to 7-4 and they’re in the thick of the playoff race despite Lawrence posting his lowest quarterback rating since his rookie season. It’s hard to imagine them getting far if he doesn’t improve down the stretch, so the Jags will have to hope that the good starts to outweigh the bad in the near future.
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence did not play well today, but Jacksonville got the win it wanted.
Lawrence threw three interceptions and also lost a fumble that the Cardinals returned for a touchdown, but the Jaguars managed to beat the Cardinals 27-24 in overtime.
Lawrence finished 18-for-30 for 256 yards with three touchdowns, but those four turnovers easily could have cost the Jaguars the game. But the Jaguars had a key edge on special teams: kicker Cam Little made both of his field goal attempts, both from 52 yards, the second one in overtime, while Cardinals kicker Chad Ryland missed one from 33 yards.
The Jaguars won the overtime coin toss and chose to receive, and Little’s second 52-yard field goal gave them the lead, but not the win: The NFL’s 2025 overtime rules mean both teams get a possession.
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, a fourth down deep ball from quarterback Jacoby Brissett fell incomplete at the end of their overtime possession, and that ended it for the Cardinals.
The win improves the Jaguars’ record to 7-4, and they’re definitely playoff contenders, even if Lawrence’s play wouldn’t give anyone any confidence that they can win in January. The Cardinals fall to 3-8, and they’re out of contention.
To look at Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett in the first half today, you wouldn’t know which was a No. 1 overall pick on a lucrative contract, and which was a career backup.
Lawrence is 3-for-8 for 51 yards in the first half. Brissett is 20-for-25 for 161 yards in the first half. The Cardinals lead, 14-10.
Although the 6-4 Jaguars are playoff contenders and the 3-7 Cardinals are not, so far today it’s been the Cardinals who have looked like the better team. The Cardinals have 17 first downs to just five for the Jaguars, and a major difference comes from the kickers: Jaguars kicker Cam Little made his only field goal attempt, a 52-yarder, while Cardinals kicker Chad Ryland missed his only field goal attempt, a 33-yarder.
If the Jaguars can’t turn things around in the second half, there will be big questions about whether this team is actually a playoff contender.
The Jaguars will have tight end Brenton Strange back for Sunday’s game against the Cardinals.
Strange was activated from injured reserve on Saturday. He’s missed the last five games with a hip injury.
Strange had 20 catches for 204 yards in five appearances before landing on injured reserve. He has 65 catches for 650 yards and three touchdowns for his career.
The Jaguars also elevated defensive lineman Matt Dickerson and defensive back Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig from the practice squad for Sunday’s game. Dickerson played six defensive snaps and five special teams snaps last week while Silmon-Craig is in line to make his first regular season action.
