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Blake Bortles Must Prove He is Not Just Jake Locker 2.0

The Jacksonville Jaguars fortunately didn’t draft Jake Locker, the recently retired Tennessee Titans quarterback who fizzled out after just a few years in the league. While that 2011 draft saw the team pick up the horrendous Blaine Gabbert, the Jags have now moved on and are firmly behind Blake Bortles at quarterback.

Blake Bortles looked like the best thing to happen to the Jaguars offense since Justin Blackmon’s rookie season when he was under center in 2014. Unfortunately, the numbers simply don’t support that.

In fact, when you look at their first seasons as the primary starter (2012 and 2014, respectively) you see that Locker and Bortles aren’t that far apart.