Q1
A three-and-out, then Little from 55
Jacksonville went three-and-out on its first drive and scored on its next four. The first was Little’s 55-yard field goal with 2:18 left in the quarter.
- After one
- Jaguars 3, Bengals 0
Updated · model ratings
Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati, OH
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Final (Sunday, October 4, 2026): Jacksonville Jaguars 22, Cincinnati Bengals 17 — NFL Week 4, 2026. Our pre-game market-anchored line had the Bengals by 2.5 (59% to win); the Jaguars won, so that call missed. The last Kalshi price we archived before kickoff had the Bengals at 56c. The graded recap below covers how it happened and how each player call on our board resolved.
Settled
Jacksonville Jaguars 22, Cincinnati Bengals 17Final
Model call: MISSOur pre-game market-anchored line had the Bengals by 2.5 (59% to win). The Jaguars won — that call missed.
Closing-line value on the Bengals: +2c — we archived the Bengals at 55c on Sep 28; the last Kalshi price before kickoff was 56c on Oct 4. The market moved toward our side before kickoff.
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Trevor Lawrence completed 18 of 23 for 227 yards and beat Cincinnati for the first time in four tries. Cam Little kicked field goals of 55, 28 and 54 yards, and the Jaguars intercepted Burrow twice, extending their franchise-record run to nine straight games with an interception. Cincinnati lost Ja’Marr Chase to a concussion in the second quarter and ran for 23 yards. Its last drive reached the Jacksonville 21 with under a minute left and ended on downs.
Jaguars 22—Bengals 17
Final✗ Call missedTwo claims on this page, on opposite teams. The chip grades the stored probability, which had Cincinnati at 58.8% — the market’s own number, anchored at weight zero from a 2.5-point line — and Cincinnati lost, so the chip reads a miss. The model’s own read was the winner: Jacksonville by 0.3, a 2.8-point WATCH lean toward the Jaguars, who won by five. The ledger’s position was on the other team. 2026_04_JAX_CIN_moneyline is a MODERATE row on Cincinnati, entered at 55.5c on Monday 2026-09-28 against the anchored Cincinnati at 58.8%, a 3.25-point edge to the Bengals. That edge is the books’ price against Kalshi’s, not the model’s read, which leaned the other way. The contract closed at 56.5c, a CLV of plus 1c, and Cincinnati lost, which the score grades a loss. Saturday’s article made one call here, and it cleared: Parker Washington under 7 receptions, the NO at 70c, PLAY, HIGH. He caught one pass on three targets. The final player board’s one PLAY row on this game cleared too: Lawrence under 2.5 touchdown passes, HIGH, with the YES at 25c so the NO cost 75c, the YES closing at 25.5c. He threw one. Two WATCH rows that count went 1-1 and are graded apart.
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Q1
Jacksonville went three-and-out on its first drive and scored on its next four. The first was Little’s 55-yard field goal with 2:18 left in the quarter.
Q2
Evan McPherson and Little traded field goals for 6-3. Lewis then intercepted Burrow’s throw for Dohnte Meyers and returned it 45 yards to the Cincinnati 18, and Lawrence found Thomas alone at the back of the end zone from seven yards with 1:23 left in the half. Chase left in the quarter with a concussion.
Q3
The Bengals opened the half with a 12-play drive that ended in Mike Gesicki’s 15-yard touchdown catch at 8:44, 13-10. Little’s 54-yarder with three minutes left in the quarter restored a six-point lead.
Q4
Chris Rodriguez Jr. ran 25 yards off left guard for 22-10 at 6:35; the two-point try failed. Burrow sneaked in from a yard at 3:28. Washington looked to have ended it with a 39-yard screen, but replay put him out of bounds at the Cincinnati 48, and the Bengals got the ball back at their 17 with 1:44 left. Burrow reached the Jacksonville 21, threw three straight incompletions, and Chase Brown was stopped short after a catch on fourth-and-10.
Reporting verified 2026-10-04. Further sources: ESPN — AP recap: Trevor Lawrence finally gets 1st win over Bengals as Jaguars hold on for 22-17 victory · ESPN — box score · ESPN — core odds, opening and closing DraftKings line
Both teams are 2-1 and both quarterback rooms are clean, so this one is decided by bodies and by tendency. Jacksonville arrives with the best scoring defense in football at 12.0 points a game, off a 35-6 win over New England, and with a cornerback room in which only two players are described as fully healthy. Cincinnati lost 30-27 at Pittsburgh and will answer with a defense that blitzes less than anyone in the league while three of its safeties take the week day by day.
Injury and practice participation
Start with what is not a story: neither Trevor Lawrence nor Joe Burrow appears anywhere on the Week 4 report, on the league’s own page or on the home club’s. The gate passes on both rooms and there is no quarterback read on this page. What is left is more interesting than usual, because the injuries on both sides land exactly on the units the two matchups below turn on. Cincinnati had all three of its top safeties compromised on Wednesday — Jordan Battle (hamstring) and Bryan Cook (ankle) limited, Kyle Dugger (quadricep) out of practice entirely — with Zac Taylor describing it as day by day for all three and Cook’s absence as veteran maintenance. Right guard Dalton Risner (knee) did not practise and Jalen Rivers took his reps; B.J. Hill (Achilles) stretched with the team but has now missed two games; Colbie Young (knee) is out for Sunday and will not practise this week. Jacksonville’s report is shorter and sits almost entirely at cornerback: Christian Braswell (knee) and Montaric Brown (hamstring) limited, Jarrian Jones (hip) full. Albert Regis (elbow), who missed Week 3, is expected back per Liam Coen.
Source: bengals.com — Week 4 injury report: Jaguars at Bengals
Bengals pass offense · Jaguars coverage
This is the matchup Jacksonville has the least cover for. By its own beat’s accounting only Travis Hunter and Jourdan Lewis are 100 percent healthy in the room; Braswell and Brown were both limited on Wednesday, and Brown’s hamstring is the most plausible explanation for a Week 3 snap count that was his lowest since he came back from a camp injury last season. The man on the other side is the one receiver you do not want to meet short-handed — in the last meeting between these teams Chase was targeted sixteen times, caught fourteen of them for 165 yards and a touchdown. Coen’s own framing of the Chase–Burrow connection was that "it’s hard to find better." The counterweight is that this is the best scoring defense in the league precisely because it wins the downs that matter: Jacksonville is second in red-zone touchdown rate allowed at 14 percent, second on third down at 29.0 percent, and it is the only team in football to have forced multiple takeaways inside its own red zone. Chase will get his yards. Whether they become points is the question.
Source: Yahoo Sports — Jaguars’ Week 4 injury report brings one position group into focus
Jaguars pass offense · Bengals coverage and rush
Cincinnati blitzes at 15.2 percent, the lowest rate in the league, which is a defensible choice when the four-man rush gets there and an expensive one when it does not: with pressure the Bengals allow 4.8 yards an attempt, eleventh-best, and without it 8.3, twenty-seventh. They are also giving up a league-high 7.3 yards per play on first down, which is the down on which Jacksonville most wants to throw. The Bengals’ own Week 4 scouting report supplies the uncomfortable overlay — Lawrence leads qualified passers in the share of his throws travelling between ten and twenty air yards, at 37 percent, with a 107.8 passer rating and seven touchdowns to two interceptions. That is the exact window a four-man rush and a safety room taking the week day by day has to defend. Jacksonville has also been a first-half team to a degree nothing else on the slate matches, outscoring opponents 48-6 before halftime, so Cincinnati does not get to find this out slowly.
Source: Sharp Football Analysis — Jaguars–Bengals Week 4 worksheet (Rich Hribar)
Reporting verified 2026-10-02. Further sources: bengals.com — Week 4 injury report: Jaguars at Bengals · bengals.com — Jaguars–Bengals Week 4 opponent preview and scouting report · NFL.com — official Week 4 injury report (practice participation) · Yahoo Sports — Jaguars’ Week 4 injury report brings one position group into focus · Yahoo Sports — Jaguars vs. Bengals: first look at the Week 4 injury report · A to Z Sports — Bengals’ first Week 4 injury report: Risner, Dugger, Cook, Battle · Sharp Football Analysis — Jaguars–Bengals Week 4 worksheet (Rich Hribar) · jaguars.com — Game report, 2026 Week 3: Jaguars 35, Patriots 6 · Action News Jax — Jaguars’ defense: epitome of “situational masters” · ClutchPoints — Bengals defense faces revealing test against the Jaguars offense in Week 4 · Yahoo Sports — The Bengals’ NFL rankings tell the story of their 2-1 start
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Written before the game and kept as published. Final: Jacksonville Jaguars 22, Cincinnati Bengals 17 — the graded call is above.
There is almost nothing between these two on our numbers. The Bengals rate +1.3 (10th of 32), the Jaguars +2.8 (5th) — 1.5 points apart before home field, inside the error bar of any preseason rating. The split comes out 49%/51%, and this rates as the 5th-closest game of the 16 in Week 4. When the model has no opinion worth holding, the price has to supply the edge.
Season-long, the model can barely split them: 10.4 projected wins for the Bengals against 10.6 for the Jaguars, favored in 12 and 12 of their 17 respectively. Two teams heading for the same neighborhood in the standings tend to produce exactly this kind of line. This game sits 8th-hardest on the Bengals' schedule and 3rd-hardest on the Jaguars'.
The sharpest unit gap in the game runs one way: the Jaguars offense grades +2.3 (6th of 32) against a Bengals defense at -0.9 (18th) — 3.2 points of separation on our scale, and the single biggest reason the line sits where it does. Going the other direction, the Bengals offense (+1.5, 11th) meets the Jaguars defense (-0.3, 15th), a 1.8-point gap.
One team has owned this series: the Bengals are 8-4 in 12 regular-season meetings since 2002. They last met in 2025: Bengals won 31-27 in September. Over their last 4 meetings the Bengals are 4-0. Worth saying plainly — the model does not know any of that. It reads 2026 ratings and nothing else, so a lopsided series is a story, not a number on this page.
Conditions are unlikely to be the story: across 11 Cincinnati home games in October since 2015, the median temperature was 66°F and the median wind 6 mph. That is a neutral-weather profile, which is worth knowing mostly because it removes an excuse from both sides.
Calibration check, because a near-even number is the easiest kind to overtrust: across 3266 walk-forward games (2013-2024) the model gave a side 50-55% in 870 of them, and those sides won 52%. The Jaguars at 51% are in that band. A margin that thin is why we would rather wait for a price than call it a lean.
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Jacksonville Jaguars 22, Cincinnati Bengals 17 — final, played Sunday, October 4, 2026; our pre-game market-anchored line had the Bengals by 2.5 (59% to win), and the Jaguars won, so that call missed. The full graded recap, with every player call resolved, is on this page.
Before kickoff the market line favored the Bengals by 2.5 points, a 59% win probability over the Jaguars. That number is kept on this page as the record of the call; Kalshi's KXNFLGAME-26OCT04JACCIN market has since settled, so no price on it is live.
Because the Bengals (+1.3, 10th) and Jaguars (+2.8, 5th) are only 1.5 rating points apart. The 2.5-point home-field adjustment is larger than the gap between the teams, so home field is effectively the entire margin and the split lands at 59%/41%. In games like this the model is not the deciding input — the contract price is.
The contract will be KXNFLGAME-26OCT04JACCIN on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated exchange available in most states, with sports contracts restricted in some. It has not opened yet; when it does, the model would take the Bengals at 57c or below, or the Jaguars at 39c or below. There is no point spread — you buy a yes or no contract on a team and it settles at $1 or $0.
Jacksonville Jaguars visit the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, October 4, 2026 — a Sunday game in NFL Week 4, at Paycor Stadium, Cincinnati, OH.
Across all 17 games the model projects the Bengals at 10.4 wins (favored in 12) and the Jaguars at 10.6 (favored in 12). This game ranks 8th-hardest on the Bengals' schedule and 3rd-hardest on the Jaguars', by win probability.
Kalshi listed this game as KXNFLGAME-26OCT04JACCIN, and the contract has settled now that the game has been played. The last price we archived before kickoff is in the settled-market section on this page; there is no live price and no position left to take.
This game has been played, so the Week 4 market KXNFLGAME-26OCT04JACCIN has settled — there is no position left to take on it. While it was open it traded as an event contract rather than a point spread: Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange available in most states, with sports contracts restricted in some, you bought a YES or NO contract on a team between 1c and 99c, and it settled at $1 or $0, so the price paid was the break-even probability. Kalshi lists the next week's games on the same terms.
52% of the time. Over 3266 walk-forward games from 2013-2024 — trained only on prior seasons, no market line as an input — the model put a team in the 50-55% range 870 times, and those teams won 52% of them. The Jaguars at 51% over the Bengals sit in that band, off a 0.5-point model line. Straight-up across all 3266 graded games the model picked winners at 59.6%, with a Brier score of 0.236 against 0.25 for a coin flip.
Our model puts it at 59% against a market price implying 56%, an edge of +2.7 points. Model 59% vs the last Kalshi price before kickoff, 56% on CIN — kept as the pre-game record. We pass — no position.
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