With the Jacksonville Jaguars on their bye week, let's take a look at how the offensive and defensive units compare to the rest of the NFL in key areas.
Sitting at 4-2, the Jaguars have proven to be formidable on both sides of the ball; however, this exercise also highlights some needed areas of improvement coming out of the bye week.
With so much information out there nowadays, I did my best to boil this article down to the need-to-know statistics that do still carry a lot of weight.
With help from Team Rankings and Pro Football Reference, here is how the Jaguars stack up against the rest of the league.
Jacksonville Jaguars stats to know
- Points per game: 25.7 (8th)
- Points per game allowed: 17.3 (3rd)
- Yards per rush: 4.1 (16th)
- Yards per rush allowed: 3.2 (1st)
- Yards per pass attempt: 8.0 (5th)
- Yards per pass attempt allowed: 7.8 (30th)
- Pressure rate on QB: 23.6% (14th)
- Pressure rate allowed on QB: 20.4% (10th)
- Turnover differential: +5 (T2)
- Third-down conversion rate: 47.9% (3rd)
- Defensive third-down conversion rate allowed: 36.2% (10th)
- Red zone success rate: 66.7% (9th)
- Defensive red zone success rate: 40.0% (3rd)
This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Where Jaguars rank in key metrics compared to rest of NFL at bye week