Texans 34, Jaguars 31: Fairbairn's kick ends a Wembley shootout
Houston's C.J. Stroud threw for 312 yards and a walk-off 49-yard field goal beat Jacksonville in London, trimming the Jaguars' AFC South lead.
The Houston Texans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 34-31 at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday, settling a back-and-forth AFC South game with a 49-yard Ka'imi Fairbairn field goal as time expired.
How it unfolded
Houston led 17-14 at halftime, according to the Jaguars' own game report. C.J. Stroud threw two first-half touchdown passes to Foster Moreau, and Fairbairn added a 25-yard field goal. For Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence found Bhayshul Tuten for a 27-yard score and Tuten added a 2-yard run. Houston pushed the margin to 24-14 early in the third quarter on a 13-yard Stroud pass to Jaylin Noel, and Jawhar Jordan's 25-yard run made it 31-21 with 50 seconds left in the quarter.
Jacksonville answered in between with a one-yard touchdown catch by rookie tight end Nate Boerkircher, and in the fourth quarter Lawrence hit Travis Hunter from seven yards to make it 31-28. Cam Little then tied the game with a 60-yard field goal with 1:55 remaining. Houston drove for Fairbairn's winning kick as the clock ran out.
The numbers that mattered
Stroud finished 24 of 34 for 312 yards and three touchdowns, with one interception, per the Jaguars' game report. NFL.com noted that Houston's 34 points were the most any team has scored against Jacksonville since Week 10 of 2025. Lawrence was 24 of 41 for 306 yards and four touchdown passes, with one interception, thrown in the end zone in the second quarter and picked off by Kamari Lassiter, according to the same report.
Hunter's afternoon was notable on both sides of the ball: he caught a touchdown and also intercepted Stroud in the end zone late in the fourth quarter. NFL.com described him as just the third player in the last 40 years to have a receiving touchdown and an interception in the same game. The Houston Press reported that the pick was Stroud's only mistake of the day and kept the Texans from putting the game away sooner.
What it means
Houston is 2-4 after its second straight win. Jacksonville is 4-2, still atop the AFC South, but its three-game winning streak is over. The Jaguars' report called the result frustrating for a team that missed a chance against a division rival, and NFL.com pointed to Jacksonville's penalties and Lawrence's interception as swing factors in a division where, in its words, margins are slim.
The Texans, meanwhile, have now allowed 30 or more points in three of their six games, a pattern the Houston Press flagged as a concern for a team that increasingly needs to win shootouts. The result narrows the AFC South gap, but Jacksonville retains the division lead heading into the rest of its schedule.
Injuries were a footnote with potential consequences: the Jaguars' report said safety Antonio Johnson left with a third-quarter ankle injury, and the Houston Press reported that Texans safety Reed Blankenship left with a concussion.