Poor Jacksonville Jaguars. The team fell to 0-6 Sunday when a last-second field goal attempt was blocked, giving the Tennessee Titans an ugly 16-14 win.
Jaguars fantasy football recap: Storm Johnson scores; Cecil Shorts, Clay Harbor tally yardage
Despite the loss in a low-scoring game, several Jaguars managed decent fantasy numbers. We break down the fantasy implications.
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The Jaguars scored the first and last points of the game, with a touchdown early in the first quarter and another with 37 seconds left. In between, the Titans scored 16 unanswered points.
There aren’t a lot of fantasy-relevant names with Jacksonville, but there were a few players who offered some production:
In his third career start, and fourth career game, the rookie quarterback set a high for both passing and rushing yardage. Bortles threw for 336 yards on 32-of-46 passing in the game, with one touchdown and one interception. He also ran for 38 yards on five carries. That performance was good for a season-best 18 fantasy points for Bortles, who remains on the outside of the top fantasy quarterbacks, but could be a reasonable bye-week fill-in in the right matchup.
For the second week in a row, Johnson will come out looking like he could offer fantasy relevance due mostly to the impossibly low standards set by his Jaguar predecessors. The rookie running back did score a touchdown Sunday, on a 1-yard run early in the first quarter, but had 21 total rushing yards on 10 carries (2.1 yards a carry) and negative-4 receiving yards on one catch. A week ago, Johnson had 27 yards on four carries, but 20 of those yards came on one run. Overall, he's been unimpressive, but some will claim otherwise. He is the best option the Jaguars have, though, with Denard Robinson getting only five carries (for 22 yards), and Jordan Todman rushing three times for 1 yard. Previous starter Toby Gerhart, who aggravated a foot injury in practice, didn't have any touches.
It looked early in the week like there was no chance Shorts would play, but he made a nice recovery as the week went on, and in the end had a big day. Shorts caught 10 passes (on 16 targets) for 103 yards in the game, the leading receiver for either team. He did fumble, but still, if Shorts can stay healthy, he'll be a fine WR3 most weeks, though asking him to stay healthy is a big ask. Allen Robinson, who put up some numbers when Shorts was out, had 68 yards Sunday on eight catches, while Marqise Lee and Allen Hurns were much quieter, with 26 and 18 yards, respectively.
The tight end, only starting for Jacksonville because Marcedes Lewis got hurt, had eight combined fantasy points in the two games leading up to Sunday, but he erupted in Week 6, with 91 yards and a touchdown. It was, however, on only three catches (four targets). It's nice to see that Harbor has that sort of production in his pocket, but it was fluky enough that fantasy owners shouldn't see him as anything more than a bye-week/injury fill-in.
