Trevor Lawrence — Week 2: One Third-Down Completion in Seven
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Monday, Sep 21
Lawrence completed 17 of 29 throws for 189 yards, no touchdowns and one interception, and took two sacks; he was 12 of 17 for 138 before halftime and 5 of 12 for 51 after. His seven third-down throws produced one completion, a 28-yarder to Jakobi Meyers, in a 20–13 loss to the Broncos.
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Tied at 13, 11 11 left in the fourth quarter, third and eight at the Jacksonville 34, no huddle. Trevor Lawrence threw deep left to Jakobi Meyers, 21 yards in the air, 28 yards to the Denver 38. +3.1 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position — and 15.7 points of win probability, the chance of winning the game after the play against before it, the largest gain by any Jacksonville play of the day. It was also the only third-down pass he completed. Seven third-down throws, one completion, one conversion, and an eighth third-down pass play that ended in a sack. Three plays after the Meyers catch, third and eight fell incomplete and the 54-yard field goal went wide left.
The line: 17 completions on 29 throws, a hundred 89 yards, no touchdowns, one interception, two sacks for 16 yards, −4.1 expected points on 31 pass plays. Before halftime, 12 of 17 for a hundred 38 on 19 pass plays; after it, five of 12 for 51 on 12. The interception came on third and six at midfield with a minute 40 left in the third quarter, up 13 to six: deep left for Parker Washington, picked off by Riley Moss at the Denver 33. −3.4 expected points and −7.5 points of win probability, the worst Jacksonville play from scrimmage on the day by both measures; Denver tied the game on the drive that followed. The sacks were 11 yards on second and seven at the Denver 47 in the first quarter and five on third and nine in the second. Two more sacks came back on Denver illegal-contact penalties, and the first of those had been a fumble Denver recovered. On throws that travelled 20 or more yards in the air he was two of five for 60 — Washington's 32 to the one, and the Meyers catch. He ran twice for six yards and converted a third and one.
12 throws went to Washington and eight to Brian Thomas, 20 of the 29. Jacksonville ran six plays inside the Denver 20 all day: Bhayshul Tuten's touchdown, his nine-yard run to the nine, a catch to the six that a penalty turned into first and goal at the three, and then a run for −2, a catch for no gain and an incompletion.
Back in June the preview called Lawrence a most valuable player finalist priced ninth among quarterbacks, with a rushing floor and two cautions, one of them that last year's accuracy had been ordinary. Week 1 was 18 of 23 with four touchdowns to four receivers, worth +19 expected points. Sunday in Denver was −4, no touchdowns, and five completions after halftime. One of each kind of game. Two weeks do not move a season read; they do show how wide the range is. Jacksonville is home to the Patriots on Sunday the 20-seventh.
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