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Houston's Davis Mills continues a disturbing trend of backup QBs besting Jacksonville Jaguars
Davis Mills of the Houston Texans threw for 292 yards and two touchdowns, and scored the winning TD on a 14-yard scramble on third down on Nov. 9 to lead a 36-29 victory over the Jaguars at Houston’s NRG Stadium. Mills engineered a rally from a 29-10 deficit with three TD drives in the fourth quarter.
Mills was even-keeled almost to a fault throughout Sunday’s game, according to Schultz. The tight end said the team had to tell him to speak up several times in the huddle because they couldn’t hear him relay the play call. But the calm, confident nature of Mills in the face of adversity instilled the same spirit in his teammates to battle back.
Leading up that season finale in 2022, Davis Mills had been the primary starting quarterback for the Texans in 2021 and 2022, his first two seasons in the NFL. While Mills himself is hardly the only one to blame, he did sport a 5-19-1 record as a starter over those two seasons. Not good. Not good at all.
Texans backup quarterback steps in for injured C.J. Stroud, leads team to second-biggest comeback in franchise history with game-winning touchdown as team scored 26 unanswered points in fourth quarter
The aftermath: The pass helped get the Texans moving. Six plays later, they were in Jaguars territory and Mills scored the go-ahead touchdown on the drive's 14th play to give Houston its first lead of the game with 31 seconds left. Schultz also atoned for a third-down drop earlier in the second half that led to turnover on downs.
In an important AFC South battle, the Houston Texans play host to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon.
Houston Texans wide receiver Nico Collins catches a 54-yard pass from quarterback Davis Mills. New York Jets linebacker Will McDonald IV enters backfield in a flash for third sack of first half. Houston texans cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. intercepts a pass from Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence .
As far as the Week 11 power rankings go, Jacksonville is now No. 17 -- down two spots from a week ago. "We can't relive the moment," Coen said on Monday, via Jaguars.com. "We can't change anything about the outcome of yesterday.