Jaguars Rout Depleted Ravens 33-10 as Baltimore's Losing Skid Hits Four

Jacksonville extended its grip on the AFC South with a comfortable 33-10 win over Baltimore on Thursday night, exploiting a Ravens team stripped of both its starting and backup quarterbacks, according to the Guardian.

Trevor Lawrence threw for 242 yards and a touchdown as the Jaguars improved to 6-2, their fifth win in six games leaving them three and a half games clear at the top of the division.

Baltimore, now 4-5 and losers of four straight, turned to undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano for his first NFL start after Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley both went down injured. Fagnano managed just 60 yards passing on 10-of-18 throwing, finishing with a 55.6 passer rating, Yahoo Sports reported. The Ravens are now waiting on Jacoby Brissett to arrive as cover.

With their rookie quarterback untested and the rain falling steadily at M&T Stadium, Baltimore leaned almost entirely on Derrick Henry from the opening snap. Yahoo Sports detailed how Henry touched the ball on five of the Ravens' first seven offensive plays and 10 of their first 16, with Baltimore repeatedly using Wildcat-style snaps direct to the veteran back.

That approach yielded only a 53-yard Jake Moody field goal on Baltimore's opening drive. Jacksonville, by contrast, needed just one possession to find the end zone, marching 77 yards before Bhayshul Tuten punched in a one-yard touchdown run for a 7-0 lead.

The game stayed within reach deep into the first half until Lawrence found Parker Washington for a 50-yard touchdown strike with 58 seconds remaining before the break, sending Jacksonville into half-time 17-3 ahead.

Baltimore briefly threatened a foothold early in the third quarter when a Jaguars fumble handed them possession at midfield with the score at 20-3, but the drive stalled and the Ravens failed to convert on fourth down, drawing jeers from the home crowd.

Fagnano threw two interceptions in the second half as Jacksonville pulled away. A lost fumble on a Baltimore kick return then set up Chris Rodriguez Jr's two-yard touchdown run with 7:26 left, pushing the lead to 33-3.

Eleven seconds later Justice Hill broke a 65-yard touchdown run, Baltimore's first points after half-time since Week 5 of the season, finishing with 85 yards on just nine carries. That burst ended a 24-game run in which Jacksonville's defence had not conceded a rushing total of 75 yards or more to any individual player, per the Guardian.

Henry's own numbers reflected how thoroughly Jacksonville's No 1-ranked rush defence shut the game down. He finished with 57 yards on 17 carries in his first meeting with the Jaguars since 2023 and his first wearing a Ravens uniform, figures that matched his second-lowest total against Jacksonville since a four-touchdown, 238-yard display back in 2018, according to Yahoo Sports.

During his years with Tennessee from 2016 to 2023, Henry had rushed for 1,584 yards and 16 touchdowns across 15 starts against Jacksonville at 5.4 yards a carry, including seven 100-yard outings and two games over 200 yards. None of that production was replicated here: in the second half alone the Jaguars limited him to six yards on five carries, including a loss of two yards on a tackle by Travon Walker.

Henry also took 10 direct snaps out of the shotgun, running six times for 25 yards and completing one toss to Zay Flowers that lost three yards after Flowers was dropped behind the line by Walker and Ventrell Miller.

Jacksonville's win keeps the pressure on the rest of the AFC South while Baltimore faces mounting uncertainty at quarterback heading into the next stretch of the season, with Jacoby Brissett expected to take over behind centre once he arrives.