NFL Power Rankings, Week 15: Packers take top seed, Eagles sparked by Jalen Hurts
By Randy Gurzi
There’s good news and bad news. First, the bad news — the Jacksonville Jaguars are 1-12. The good news is, they finally returned to Gardner Minshew under center. The former sixth-round pick took over for Mike Glennon who was still struggling and in a surprise to no one, the offense looked better with Minshew under center.
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He finished with 178 yards and a touchdown on 18-of-31 passing and even the ground game looked better with him. James Robinson wasn’t moving the chains at all but then finished with 6y yards once Minshew came in, and it could have been even better as he had a long touchdown run overturned as well due to a penalty on the alignment.
Robinson did hit a milestone in the game as well as he became the fourth undrafted rookie to Irish for 1,000-yards and he did it in just 13 games. That makes him the fastest to do so, which has been one of the few bright spots for this struggling franchise.
With Baltimore, Chicago, and Tennesee left on their schedule, it’s likely the Jaguars finish 1-15 on the season. Again, there’s good news there as that would mean they would finish with the No. 2 overall pick at the absolute worst.