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Lawrence Leads the 6-2 Jaguars Into Tennessee

LIVE — Jaguars 16, Titans 10 at halftime: Little's third field goal, at the gun, stretched Jacksonville's lead.

Miles Rook2 min read Updated Nov 15, 2:35 PM ET

Trevor Lawrence in 2022 (archive); Lawrence and the Jaguars visit Tennessee on Sunday. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Summary

The Jaguars' deadline push meets a rested 1-7 Titans team with nothing to protect but the afternoon.

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LIVE — Jaguars 16, Titans 10 at halftime in Nashville. Parker Washington (6 catches, 148 yards) caught Trevor Lawrence's 2-yard touchdown, and Cam Little has three field goals — the last a 36-yarder as the half expired. Tennessee's answer is Cam Ward's 2-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Bellinger. Lawrence is 13 of 21 for 234 yards.

The Jacksonville Jaguars (6-2) visit the Tennessee Titans (1-7) at Nissan Stadium in an AFC South game that looks lopsided from every angle except the schedule. Kickoff is 1 p.m. ET. Tennessee is coming off its bye. Jacksonville is coming off a month of telling the league it means it.

The Jaguars have outscored their last two opponents 75-17, and at the trade deadline they added defensive tackle Jordan Davis, safety Jessie Bates III and defensive tackle Davon Godchaux in three separate deals. That's not a team protecting a good start. That's a team buying January insurance in November.

The push has a cost. Jacksonville lost defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton and safety Eric Murray to season-ending injuries in Week 9, which is part of why the deadline shopping list ran so long. Trevor Lawrence's job is to make the absences irrelevant by putting games away early.

Tennessee's case is rest and arithmetic. The Titans are 1-7, they're 31st in the league against the pass, and their season is a development project now. But division home games after a bye are where favorites go to get embarrassed, and Jacksonville has been handed enough of those scripts over the years to know the lines.

Jacksonville's defense is the quiet engine of the start: the Jaguars rank second in run defense by DVOA, and they've turned their last two games into 75-17 aggregate routs. Tennessee had two full weeks to prepare for this — the Titans are coming off their bye — and a rested home team in a division game is the last thing a favorite wants to see on the schedule.

A win moves Jacksonville to 7-2 with the AFC South's best record and a roster that just got deeper. This story updates live once the game kicks off and closes as the game's full summary at the final whistle.