The Jaguars beat Ravens 33-10 on Thursday night, and the scoreline flatters Baltimore. Jacksonville walked into M&T Bank Stadium in the rain, scored on its opening drive, and never trailed for a second. By the fourth quarter it was a rout. The Jaguars improved to 6-2 and tightened their grip on the AFC South. The Ravens fell to 4-5, their fourth straight loss, with a rookie quarterback who looked every bit the emergency starter he is.

Trevor Lawrence didn’t need to be brilliant. He was 16-of-26 for 242 yards and a touchdown, with no interceptions, and two of his throws went for 50-plus yards. That was plenty. Baltimore’s offense managed 227 total yards all night, according to Ravens Wire, and 65 of those came on one late run when the game was already decided.

Jacksonville set the tone in about four minutes. The Jaguars took the opening kickoff and marched 77 yards in seven plays. Lawrence went 3-for-4 for 72 yards on the drive, including a 52-yard strike to rookie tight end Nate Boerkircher, and Bhayshul Tuten finished it with a 1-yard touchdown run. Jacksonville faced third down exactly once on that drive.

Baltimore answered with a field goal, and it was a strange one. Fill-in kicker Jake Moody drilled a 53-yarder through heavy rain despite a low snap, cutting the lead to 7-3. It would be the Ravens’ only score for more than three quarters. Cam Little’s 36-yard field goal made it 10-3 at the end of the first, and the gap only grew.

Jaguars beat Ravens with a fast start in the rain

The half ended with the kind of play that breaks a team’s spirit. With 58 seconds left before the break, Lawrence found Parker Washington on a slant, and Washington ran away from the blitz for a 50-yard touchdown. Jacksonville led 17-3 at halftime, having outgained Baltimore 223-101. Lawrence was 9-of-15 for 197 yards at that point. Joe Fagnano, the undrafted rookie making his first NFL start, was 7-of-11 for 30 yards.

Rain fell all night, and Baltimore’s game plan read like a team trying to hide its quarterback. The Ravens ran the ball plenty, held the ball for 17:31 of the first 30 minutes, and leaned on Derrick Henry in wildcat sets — seven direct snaps in the first half alone. It kept the clock moving. It didn’t produce points. Jacksonville ran only four drives in the entire first half and still scored on three of them.

The second half opened the same way the first had ended: with a Jacksonville takeaway. Buster Brown intercepted Fagnano on Baltimore’s first possession after the break, and Little’s 45-yard field goal made it 20-3. Little added a 47-yarder early in the fourth to make it 23-3, and the lead reached 26-3 on another field goal before Chris Rodriguez’s 2-yard touchdown run pushed it to 33-3 with 7:26 left.

Baltimore finally found the end zone with 7:15 to go, when Justice Hill broke loose for a 65-yard touchdown run — the longest touchdown Jacksonville’s defense has given up all season. It made the final score respectable. Nothing more.

Jaguars beat Ravens as Fagnano’s first start unravels

Nobody in Baltimore pretended this was a fair fight at quarterback. Lamar Jackson is on injured reserve after thumb surgery, and backup Tyler Huntley is out for the season with the toe injury he suffered in Sunday’s 36-10 loss to Buffalo. That left Fagnano, an undrafted rookie out of UConn, making his first start on four days’ rest.

The numbers tell the story plainly. Fagnano finished 10-of-18 for 60 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions. His second pick came from Jourdan Lewis early in the fourth quarter, with Jacksonville already up 23-3. Fagnano had seen mop-up duty in Buffalo — 10-of-21 for 91 yards and an interception after Jackson went down — but Thursday was his first start, in prime time, in the rain, against a defense that came in as a double-digit favorite’s worst nightmare. He looked overwhelmed, and the Ravens’ coaches knew it. They ran the ball, used Henry out of the wildcat, and tried unbalanced lines and trick formations to take pressure off him. None of it opened up the passing game.

Jacksonville’s defense deserves real credit here. It held Henry to 57 yards on 17 carries, and the Ravens’ only sustained drives ended in punts or turnovers. The Jaguars were flagged just four times for 24 yards all night, a clean performance on a short week, four days after hammering Indianapolis 42-7.

One odd detail: Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville’s star receiver, didn’t see a single target all night, according to Jaguars Wire, with trade speculation swirling ahead of Tuesday’s deadline. Lawrence didn’t miss him. Jakobi Meyers led the Jaguars with four catches for 65 yards, and the offense spread the ball around without its biggest name touching it.

The win was Jacksonville’s eighth by 20 or more points since the start of the 2025 season, the most in the league over that span, per NBC Sports. It’s also the Jaguars’ second straight win by 20-plus. They covered the 8.5-point spread by a mile.

Henry’s historic night, and the trade question

Derrick Henry still gave Baltimore its one moment worth remembering. The 32-year-old running back entered the night with 13,657 career rushing yards, needing 35 to climb past two Hall of Famers. He did it before halftime, passing Jerome Bettis (13,662) and then LaDainian Tomlinson (13,684) to move into seventh place on the NFL’s all-time rushing list. Henry finished with 51 yards in the first half and 57 for the game, plus a completed pass for minus-3 yards out of the wildcat.

That milestone lands in the middle of a noisy week for Henry. NFL insider Jason La Canfora reported Thursday that the Ravens are getting inquiries on Henry ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline, with multiple executives telling him Baltimore could get third-round value for the veteran. ESPN’s Dan Graziano has Henry on his list of players to “keep half an eye on” before the deadline. Henry turns 33 in January and is a free agent at the end of the season, and the Ravens’ season is sliding away from them.

Nothing is decided, and the trade for veteran quarterback Jacoby Brissett — reported earlier this week and covered in our preview of this game — suggests general manager Eric DeCosta isn’t ready to wave the white flag just yet. But a 4-5 team on a four-game skid, with its franchise quarterback on injured reserve, has hard choices to make before Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. Henry’s 57 yards on Thursday won’t have hurt his market. His team’s record might have.

What comes next

Jacksonville’s road trip rolls on. The Jaguars visit the one-win Tennessee Titans in Week 10, then travel to the New York Giants before a home rematch with Tennessee on Nov. 29. At 6-2, with Houston sitting second in the AFC South at 2-5, the division looks like Jacksonville’s to lose.

Baltimore gets ten days off before hosting the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday Night Football on Nov. 16. Ten days is a long time in the NFL, and the Ravens need every hour of it — to get Jackson closer to a return, to get Brissett up to speed, and to decide whether this season is still worth chasing or whether the trade deadline turns into a fire sale. Thursday night answered none of those questions. It just made them louder.

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FAQ

What was the final score of Jaguars vs Ravens?

Jacksonville won 33-10 at M&T Bank Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. The Jaguars led 17-3 at halftime and 20-3 after three quarters before pulling away with 13 fourth-quarter points.

How did Joe Fagnano play in his first NFL start?

Roughly. The undrafted rookie went 10-of-18 for 60 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns. He started because Lamar Jackson is on injured reserve after thumb surgery and backup Tyler Huntley is out for the season with a toe injury.

How did Trevor Lawrence play?

Lawrence completed 16 of 26 passes for 242 yards and a touchdown, with no interceptions. He hit Parker Washington for a 50-yard touchdown just before halftime and connected with rookie tight end Nate Boerkircher for 52 yards on the opening drive.

What did Derrick Henry do on Thursday night?

Henry ran for 57 yards on 17 carries and moved into seventh place on the NFL’s all-time rushing list, passing Hall of Famers Jerome Bettis and LaDainian Tomlinson. He also took seven direct snaps out of the wildcat in the first half. Trade rumors around him continue ahead of Tuesday’s deadline.