
LAS VEGAS — – Aidan O'Connell returned from an damage and handed for 257 yards, and the Las Vegas Raiders ended a 10-game dropping streak with a 19-14 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
The Raiders, whose skid was the longest energetic streak within the NFL, received for the primary time since beating the Cleveland Browns 20-16 on Sept. 29. The victory, nevertheless, means the Raiders (3-12) moved forward of the league-worst New York Giants (2-13). The crew with the worst file is in line for the highest decide in subsequent 12 months's draft.
Jacksonville (3-12) has misplaced seven of its final eight video games and is 2-9 in one-score contests.
O'Connell made his first begin in two weeks. He didn't play in Monday night time's 15-9 loss to Atlanta due to a left knee damage.
Las Vegas' Brock Bowers caught 11 passes for 99 yards, leaving him 10 yards away from breaking Mike Ditka's 63-year-old NFL rookie file for tight ends. Ditka had 1,076 yards in 1961. Bowers did turn out to be the third rookie tight finish to achieve 1,000 yards in a season, becoming a member of Ditka and Atlanta's Kyle Pitts in 2021.
Jacksonville's Brian Thomas Jr. caught 9 passes for 132 yards and a landing, giving him 73 catches this season and breaking the rookie club file of 64 set by Justin Blackmon in 2012. Thomas is also the Jaguars' rookie file holder for receiving yards (1,087) and touchdowns (9).
Mac Jones passes for 247 yards and a TD for the Jaguars.
That is the primary recreation this season wherein the Raiders didn’t path by double digits. Their 14-game streak to open a season was second solely to the Indianapolis Colts' steak of 16 video games in 1986.
The Raiders' 10-game dropping streak was the fifth-longest in franchise historical past, and their longest since dropping 16 in a row between the 2013-14 seasons.
Las Vegas even had an opportunity to go up two possessions late within the third quarter, however Daniel Carlson missed a 46-yard subject objective to the left with 2:18 left. Jacksonville capitalized when Jones discovered a wide-open Thomas deep on the left aspect of the sector for a 62-yard landing and 14-13 lead with 54 seconds left within the third.
Las Vegas answered with a 10-play, 70-yard drive that culminated in Ameer Abdullah's 7-yard scoring run lower than 4 minutes into the fourth quarter. O'Connell's cross on a 2-point conversion was overthrown, leaving the Raiders with a 19-14 lead.
Accidents
Jaguars: LT Walker Little (ankle), RT Anton Harrison (shoulder), S Darnell Savage (concussion) and LB Ventrell Miller (ankle) had been harm.
Raiders: CBs Nate Hobbs (sickness) and Sam Webb (again/sickness) and G Jordan Meredith (ankle) didn’t play.
Up subsequent
Jaguars: Host Tennessee on Sunday.
Raiders: Go to New Orleans on Sunday.
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