Top 5 former Detroit Lions to watch on Wild Card Weekend
4. Jacksonville Jaguars WR Marvin Jones
3. Jacksonville Jaguars WR Jamal Agnew
Doubling up on former Lions turned Jaguars here.
Jones hasn’t put up huge numbers during his second season in Jacksonville, as he has fallen down the pecking order for targets from Trevor Lawrence with last offseason’s additions of Christian Kirk, Zay Jones and Evan Engram. But he is one Jaguar player who has some playoff experience, including the last postseason game the Lions played in back in 2016.
Agnew doesn’t see a lot of snaps. But he does touch the ball in a variety of ways (23 catches, 12 carries, 25 punt returns and 21 kickoff returns this season), and when he’s on the field he is in line to touch the ball–literally more than any wide receiver with at least 100 offensive snaps this season, and by a pretty good margin.
there are 169 NFL WRs have have played 100 or more snaps this season.
— Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) January 11, 2023
Jaguars WR Jamal Agnew leads them all in designed rushes + targets per snap. A whopping 31.8% of his 132 offensive snaps have resulted in a potential touch of the football. pic.twitter.com/83YWp5BSnl
Saturday night against the Los Angeles Chargers, Jones and Agnew are in line to play key secondary roles for the Jaguars. A third former Lion, kicker Riley Patterson, may also be called up to have a playoff moment.