Much of Wild Card Weekend has matchups with obvious favorites and underdogs. Hardly anyone is picking the Skylar Thompson-led Miami Dolphins to upset the Buffalo Bills, and an overwhelming majority are picking the 13-4 San Francisco 49ers to roll through the Seattle Seahawks.
The Saturday night meeting of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Los Angeles Chargers is a different story.
Los Angeles is a slight favorite after finishing the regular season with the better record, but the Jaguars will have home field advantage at TIAA Bank Field. There’s also the 38-10 blowout that Jacksonville laid on the Chargers in September.
Experts are pretty evenly split on the rematch. Here’s a roundup of predictions of the primetime game in Duval:
USA Today
- Jarrett Bell: Jaguars (23-17)
- Chris Bumbaca: Jaguars (21-20)
- Nate Davis: Jaguars (27-23)
- Safid Deen: Chargers (24-20)
- Tyler Dragon: Chargers (24-20)
- Lorenzo Reyes: Chargers (26-20)
Total: Three picking Jaguars, three picking Chargers
NBC
- Jac Collinsworth: Jaguars
- Rodney Harrison: Chargers
- Mike Florio: Jaguars
- Matthew Berry: Jaguars
- Maria Taylor: Chargers
- Chris Simms: Jaguars
- Jason Garrett: Jaguars
Total: Five picking Jaguars, two picking Chargers
The Athletic
- Zach Berman: Chargers
- Michael-Shawn Dugar: Chargers
- Larry Holder: Jaguars
- Mark Kaboly: Jaguars
- Josh Kendall: Chargers
- Nick Kosmider: Jaguars
- Austin Mock: Jaguars
- Jay Morrison: Chargers
- Tashan Reed: Jaguars
- Ben Standig: Jaguars
Total: Six picking Jaguars, four picking Chargers
CBS Sports
- Pete Prisco: Jaguars
- Jason La Canfora: Jaguars
- Will Brandon: Jaguars
- Jared Dubin: Chargers
- Ryan Wilson: Chargers
- John Breech: Jaguars
- Dave Richard: Jaguars
- Jamey Eisenberg: Chargers
Total: Five picking Jaguars, three picking Chargers
NFL Network
- Adam Rank: Jaguars (28-27)
- Marcas Grant: Jaguars (23-20)
- Colleen Wolfe: Chargers (26-23)
- Maurice Jones-Drew: Chargers (27-24)
- Kevin Patra: Chargers (24-21)
- GPG: Jaguars (24-20)
- Grant Gordon: Chargers (31-24)
- Eric Edholm: Jaguars (24-21)
- Marc Sessler: Jaguars (27-24)
- Nick Shook: Chargers (26-24)
Total: Five picking Jaguars, five picking Chargers
