Answer: <\/strong>Yes, by equal parts default and his growing comfort level in the offense. Hunter was the listed intended receiver 14 times (previous high this year was eight in Week 1) and had season bests with eight catches (previous was six in Week 1) and 101 yards (previous was in Week 5).<\/p>\nWho should Lawrence trust at the receiver position at this point? I\u2019ll start with Hunter, Parker Washington and Tim Patrick and then get to Dyami Brown and Brian Thomas Jr.<\/p>\n
Hunter, who also scored his first touchdown (34-yard catch), made catches all over the field against the Rams and it didn\u2019t appear Lawrence was forcing throws into coverage just to get to Hunter. Encouraging.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars have more depth at cornerback with Greg Newsome II, Jourdan Lewis and Buster Brown than they do at receiver so the emphasis moving forward should continue to be Hunter at receiver. This is a team struggling to score points so maximize his snaps by trying to produce explosive plays.<\/p>\n
Fourth Down<\/p>\n
Question:<\/strong> Which players should be on alert for lineup changes during the bye week?<\/p>\nAnswer: <\/strong>The list should be Thomas, Little (kicker), right guard Patrick Mekari and safety Andrew Wingard.<\/p>\nThe Jaguars have struck with Thomas through his dips in performance, but let\u2019s face the fact that he has six drops and one touchdown catch through seven games. Was the final part of 2024 just an aberration? No way does he merit playing at least 81% of the snaps he got in five of the first six games (snap counts for the Rams game will be revealed Monday).<\/p>\n
Coen enters the bye with a kicker problem. Little\u2019s current claim to fame is a 70-yard field goal in an exhibition game. In the real games, he is 10 of 14 on field goals, including another miss on Sunday. The Jaguars should sign a kicker to the practice squad and have that player compete in practice with Little. The winner gets to play at Las Vegas in Week 9.<\/p>\n
Mekari had two enforced penalties and two other declined penalties against the Rams. Rookie Wyatt Milum is healthy after a knee injury against New Orleans preseason game.<\/p>\n
Wingard gave up a long touchdown and was called for two penalties (one was a bad call) against the Rams. Time for Antonio Johnson?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars raise major questions after loss to Rams in London Florida Times-Union sports columnist Ryan O’Halloran breaks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[691,5229,8015,8019,4231,24596,14619,11308,77649,9069,2488,3188,723,1318,2487,36222,11652,8012,7310,8017,8013,25231,18343,8591,9067,9068,9077,46405,4230,9006,15913,1571,5382,942,50,1232,12623,450,950,15912,15928,7138,62,1458,645,2490,4546,1533,8016,36223,18348,9066,9076,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8414],"class_list":{"0":"post-316687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-angeles","13":"tag-brian","14":"tag-brian-thomas-jr","15":"tag-cam","16":"tag-cam-little","17":"tag-coen","18":"tag-enabled","19":"tag-fl","20":"tag-florida","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-highlights","23":"tag-hines-allen","24":"tag-hub","25":"tag-hunter","26":"tag-jacksonville","27":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","28":"tag-jaguars","29":"tag-josh","30":"tag-josh-hines-allen","31":"tag-jr","32":"tag-lawrence","33":"tag-liam","34":"tag-liam-coen","35":"tag-little","36":"tag-los","37":"tag-los-angeles-rams","38":"tag-mekari","39":"tag-national","40":"tag-national-sports","41":"tag-neutral","42":"tag-news","43":"tag-nfl","44":"tag-nfl-hub","45":"tag-overall","46":"tag-overall-neutral","47":"tag-patrick","48":"tag-patrick-mekari","49":"tag-rams","50":"tag-sports","51":"tag-sports-news","52":"tag-story","53":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","54":"tag-thomas","55":"tag-travis","56":"tag-travis-hunter","57":"tag-travon","58":"tag-travon-walker","59":"tag-trevor","60":"tag-trevor-lawrence","61":"tag-united-states","62":"tag-united-states-of-america","63":"tag-unitedstates","64":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","65":"tag-us","66":"tag-usa","67":"tag-walker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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