JACKSONVILLE, Florida – Mike Glennon will start the quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars against the Chicago Bears on Sunday.
Coach Doug Marrone split Glennon and Gardner Minshew’s first-team picks during the week before deciding to go with the eight-year veteran to try to make a losing streak of 13 franchise games.
Glennon’s fourth start to the season will come against one of his four former teams.
Glennon completed 61% of his passes for 600 yards and three touchdowns with three interceptions in losses in Cleveland, Minnesota and Tennessee. Marrone defeated Glennon in the third quarter of the Jaguars’ 31-10 loss to Tennessee, and Minshew finished the game and began last week’s loss to Baltimore.
Minshew completed 22 of 29 passes for 229 yards and two touchdowns in a 40-14 loss to the Ravens. He was also fired five times, including once for safety, and Marrone opened the competition this week.
“I’ve never competed in any practice in a game week,” Glennon said earlier this week. “It’s definitely unique, but we just have to do our job and that’s to go out there and play to the best of our ability and leave those decisions to the decision makers. It is a unique situation. It was a unique year. appeared this year, which I don’t think saw any of us coming. “
Prior to this season, Glennon’s last start was on September 28, 2017, when he was with Chicago. He started the first four games of that season before scoring for rookie Mitchell Trubisky, which Bears drafted in his second general election.