{"id":355400,"date":"2026-07-28T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355400\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:27:40","slug":"playoff-road-begins-at-home-for-jacksonville-sharks-on-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355400\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff road begins at home for Jacksonville Sharks on Saturday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Sharks open the Indoor Football League season on Saturday. (News4JAX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The playoffs are on deck for the Jacksonville Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The four-time arena football champions will open their Indoor Football League postseason quest at home on Saturday at 7 p.m. against the Tulsa Oilers at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. Jacksonville (11-5) split its season series against Tulsa, winning 41-34 at home and losing on the road (58-49). <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Six players with area ties are on Jacksonville\u2019s roster this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">WR\/DB Marquel Wade (Jackson), RB Jimmie Robinson Jr. (Flagler Palm Coast), QB Sammy Edwards (St. Augustine), WR Jaedon Stoshak (University Christian), QB Matt Considine (St. Joseph) and WR Anthony Evelyn (Fletcher) are on the roster. Considine and Evelyn are on injured reserve. Stoshak and Wade have combined for 28 TD catches. Edwards has thrown 24 TD passes Robinson has paced the running game with 24 TD<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Sharks began play in 2010 as a member of the Arena Football League. They won their first AFL championship in 2011. Jacksonville jumped from the AFL to the National Arena League in 2017 and won the championship in its first season. They added titles in 2019 and 2023 before joining the IFL in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJustin Barney headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/YZYINYEDP5DTPJQ7HZSUC3AOWM\/\" title=\"View Justin Barney&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barney<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Justin Barney joined News4Jax in February 2019, but he\u2019s been covering sports on the First Coast for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sharks open the Indoor Football League season on Saturday. (News4JAX) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The playoffs are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,19589,1631],"class_list":["post-355400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sharks","tag-sports4jax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}