{"id":210639,"date":"2025-09-08T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:39:10","slug":"travis-etienne-nominated-for-top-honor-after-elite-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210639\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Etienne Nominated For Top Honor After Elite Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars <\/a>running back Travis Etienne<\/a> had the worst season of his career just a year ago. <\/p>\n

One week into the 2025 season, and it looks like Etienne is officially back to himself. <\/p>\n

After an absolutely dominant performance vs. the Carolina Panthers<\/a> in a 26-10 win, Etienne has been nominated for the FedEx Air and Ground Player of the Week honors. <\/p>\n

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. @swaggy_t1<\/a> has been nominated for FedEx Air & Ground @NFL<\/a> Player of the Week. Etienne Jr.’s 143 rushing yards in Week 1 vs. Carolina ranked second in the league. His career-long 71-yard run was the longest in the NFL for the week. https:\/\/t.co\/xJkql2GPxE<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Hi8ZBf2z18<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 JaguarsPR (@JaguarsPR) September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Etienne carried the ball 16 times for 143 yards in the Week 1 win, giving him his eighth 100-yard rushing game as a Jaguar. <\/p>\n

The key play of the day came when Etienne recorded a 71-yard run in the second quarter. It is the longest rush of his career and the longest rush by a Jaguar since RB Leonard Fournette\u2019s 81-yard run in 2019. Etienne had 156 scrimmage yards on the day and moved into sixth place in franchise history with 3,893 scrimmage yards, passing RB James Stewart (3,804).<\/p>\n

“The backed up run that he makes, Strange comes across, gets a kick out block and there’s a safety sitting in the hole that Travis just, you know, made a great move and broke loose,” Jaguars head coach Liam Coen said after the game.\n<\/p>\n

“You could feel him all day. You definitely felt him being a little bit — having a little bit more burst maybe than other guys on the grass. He looked fresh. He looked fast. He took care of the football. Proud of him. He did a great job, but the whole unit, really all the way through the end of the game, ran the ball effectively.”<\/p>\n

The Jaguars finished the game with 200 yards rushing, and Etienne was the driving force behind the massive performance. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, the guys — I mean, it starts with the guys up front, obviously. Guys up front and the wide outs too in the run game have really bought into blocking downfield. You see Dyami [Brown] on Travis’s [Etienne] long run, covering up the guy 50 yards down the field got Travis an extra 30 yards. That stuff matters,” Trevor Lawrence said after the game. <\/p>\n

“For those guys to buy in and do that on the perimeter and then to see it pay off in a game where it’s, like, hey, you got 30 more yards because you ran down the field and covered up your guy, that’s cool to see the buy-in from the whole team. Obviously the guys up front, the most selfless guys we got, and they just are grinding it out. We ran it a lot, and they wanted to keep doing it, and they did a great job moving people. We were ready. We had a good plan.”<\/p>\n

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