{"id":405805,"date":"2026-09-21T00:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405805\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:41:26","slug":"jaylen-waddles-quiet-denver-debut-flips-into-a-138-yard-day-in-a-broncos-20-13-comeback-over-jags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/405805\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaylen Waddle’s quiet Denver debut flips into a 138-yard day in a Broncos’ 20-13 comeback over Jags"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Waddle<\/a> and Jonah Coleman’s<\/a> led a big second-half comeback by the Denver Broncos<\/a>, who snapped the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>‘ nine-game regular-season winning streak with a 20-13 victory Sunday.<\/p>\n

After catching just one pass for 2 yards in his Denver debut, Waddle had eight catches for 138 yards and Coleman’s 3-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter capped a 17-0 Broncos blitz after they’d fallen behind 13-3 early in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

After allowing a field goal to open the second half, the Broncos (1-1) responded with a field goal, a 7-yard touchdown toss from Bo Nix<\/a> to Nate Adkins<\/a> and Coleman’s first career TD, which came with 7:21 remaining after starter J.K. Dobbins<\/a> had left with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars (1-1), who had won their past nine regular-season games and by a combined 177 points, including a 34-20 win in Denver last December, punted on their next possession and the Broncos chewed up final 4:41 of game clock with Coleman running six times for 33 yards.<\/p>\n

Trevor Lawrence<\/a> led Jacksonville on three scoring drives as the Jaguars built a 13-3 lead on Bhayshul Tuten’s<\/a> 1-yard touchdown run and two field goals by Cam Little<\/a>, from 44 and 23 yards.<\/p>\n

Little was wide left on a 54-yard try in the fourth quarter before Denver’s go-ahead touchdown drive. <\/p>\n

The Broncos tightened up things on defense after missing a whopping 28 tackles in their season-opening loss at Kansas City six days earlier and they finally got the ball into Waddle’s hands.<\/p>\n

The Broncos got off to a slow start, failing to punch the ball into the end zone after Waddle’s 49-yard reception at the 1 in the first half, settling instead for Wil Lutz’s<\/a> 20-yard field goal.<\/p>\n

And Nix was picked off in the end zone by Jourdan Lewis<\/a>, which led to Little’s 44-yarder as time expired, giving Jacksonville a 10-3 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars stalled at the Denver 5-yard line on the opening drive of the second half and Little’s 23-yarder made it 13-3. <\/p>\n

The Jaguars caught a big break on the game’s opening drive when an illegal contact flag on cornerback Riley Moss<\/a> negated a strip-sack by Nik Bonitto<\/a> and recovery by Alex Singleton<\/a> deep in Jacksonville territory.<\/p>\n

Mile High comeback<\/p>\n

Tim Tebow returned to Empower Field at Mile High for the first time since throwing an 80-yard touchdown pass to the late Demaryius Thomas on the first play of overtime against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 8, 2012.<\/p>\n

The former Broncos QB and Jacksonville native served as the Broncos’ alumni flag planter and was recognized as the Broncos\u2019 \u201cLegend of the Game\u201d for their home opener.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Jaguars: host the New England Patriots on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Broncos: host the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full NFL<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Jaylen Waddle and Jonah Coleman’s led a big second-half comeback by the Denver Broncos, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49424,42615,10851,5020,10837,71378,49255,116,118,121,117,11118,80526,37557,161187,10365,161189,161188,5011,49400],"class_list":["post-405805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alex-singleton","tag-bhayshul-tuten","tag-bo-nix","tag-cam-little","tag-denver-broncos","tag-event_recap","tag-j-k-dobbins","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaylen-waddle","tag-jonah-coleman","tag-jourdan-lewis","tag-nate-adkins","tag-national-football-league","tag-nik-bonitto","tag-riley-moss","tag-trevor-lawrence","tag-wil-lutz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405805","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=405805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}