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Week 5 Steelers vs. Jaguars: Stats and Facts

by Chris Nicolaou

The Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars, 30-9. Yeah, you already knew that. Let’s get into some statistics and facts from the game that may not have been very apparent. 

Jaguars

Blake Bortles only threw one pass in the 2nd half vs Pittsburgh.
– The Jaguars ran 21 plays in the 2nd half: 19 runs, 1 incompletion & 1 sack.
-Blake Bortles threw only 14 passes, completing 8 of them. Of those 8, 6 were caught by a wide receiver.

Steelers
-Antonio Brown was targeted 19 times.
– JuJu Smith-Schuster had more solo tackles (2) than Cameron Heyward, JJ Wilcox, Mike Hilton, William Gay and Bud Dupree (1).
– Want to know how inconsistent Jordan Berry is? 3 Punts: 1st: 54 yards, 2nd (on our own 19): 29 yards, 51 yards.
– Against the worst run defense in the NFL, Le’Veon Bell rushed the ball 15 times.
– Against the best pass defense in the NFL, Ben Roethlisberger threw the ball 55 times.
– Out of 36 total rushing attempts by Jaguars running backs, the Steelers only had 2 TFL.
– The Steelers were 0/3 for scoring a touchdown in the red-zone.
– The Steelers ran 9 plays in the red-zone.
– Mike Mitchell really did celebrate after tackling Leonard Fournette, who just ran 12 yards for a first down.
– Javon Hargrave had 10 tackles. TEN.
– David DeCastro gave up 5 pressures.
– Steelers possessed the ball for 31:08 and Jaguars for 28:52.

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