Ravens vs. Jaguars: Best anytime NFL TD scorer bets for Sunday Night Football in Week 15
The NFL's Week 15 slate of Sunday games wraps up with a matchup pitting two of the top AFC teams this season against each other on Sunday Night Football. The current AFC No. 1 seed Baltimore Ravens (10-3) travel south to take on the AFC South-leading Jacksonville Jaguars (8-5).
After a 3-2 start to 2023, the Ravens are rounding into playoff form. They come in to Sunday Night Football at 7-1 in their last eight games behind the fourth-best scoring offense in the league. They're the only AFC team in the league to be top five in both scoring offense (fourth, 27.8 points per game) and scoring defense (second, 16.8) this season. Quarterback Lamar Jackson is an MVP candidate and leading an offense that's scored at least 30 points in six of its last seven games.
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After its own slow start, Jacksonville went 7-1 between Week 4 and Week 12 to move to the top of the AFC. But consecutive losses to the Cincinnati Bengals in overtime and the Cleveland Browns last week suddenly has the Jaguars in danger of losing the AFC South lead to the Indianapolis Colts, who are one game back in the loss column. Starting quarterback Trevor Lawrence had one of his worst games of the season last week after an ankle injury late in the Bengals loss.
The two playoff contenders met last year in Week 11 and the Jaguars won on a touchdown and two-point conversion with just 14 seconds to go. It could be another exciting matchup on Sunday Night Football with the host Jaguars looking for a much-needed win, especially against an AFC foe.
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Best anytime touchdown bets for Week 15 Sunday Night Football
All odds courtesy of DraftKings as of Saturday evening.
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers (+220)
The Jaguars' defense has been stout against running backs in 2023, allowing just six total touchdowns to that position group this season. By contrast, that unit's allowed at least one touchdown per week to wide receivers, including multiple touchdowns in Weeks 5 and 12. Flowers has seen an uptick in targets following Mark Andrews' injury and has one touchdown in each of his last two games. Flowers is the hot hand among Ravens wideouts and is poised to score on SNF.
Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Evan Engram (+215)
It's been hard to score on the Ravens in 2023. Baltimore's allowing the fewest touchdowns in the league but recently have let tight ends break through. Davis Allen scored last week for the Rams and Gerald Everett did the week before for the Chargers. Engram's more of a weapon in the passing game than either of those players so he may have a better chance than most other options in the passing game on Sunday Night Football for the Jaguars.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (+120)
Jacksonville's allowed nearly as many rushing touchdowns to quarterbacks (four) as running backs (five) in 2023. The Jaguars allowed quarterbacks C.J. Stroud and Jake Browning to score rushing touchdowns against them in Week 12 and 13, respectively. Jackson hasn't scored a rushing touchdown since Week 7 but could find the end zone here.
Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Calvin Ridley (+205)
The Ravens have allowed just eight touchdowns to wide receivers in 2023 but four of those have been in the last four games. Two of those scores went to outside wide receivers: the Rams' Demarcus Robinson and Cincinnati's Ja'Marr Chase. Ridley led the Jaguars in targets last time out in Cleveland and has scored four touchdowns in the last four games. Lawrence looks to Ridley a lot in the passing game and likely will once again on Sunday Night Football.