On September 29, Jacksonville Jaguars running back Tank Bigsby set a career high with 90 rushing yards on seven carries in a 24–20 loss to the Houston Texans on September 29.

The following week, the former Auburn standout accomplished that again with 101 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries in a 37-34 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

Last week, Bigsby had 24 yards on seven carries, even though starting running back Travis Etienne was limited to three carries with a hamstring injury in a 35-16 loss to the Chicago Bears.

On Sunday, Bigsby returned to career highs, even though the Jaguars started D’Ernest Johnson with Etienne out against the New England Patriots. Bigsby ran for 118 yards and two touchdowns on 26 carries in Jacksonville’s 32-16 win in London.

“You don’t get that many opportunities in this National Football League,” Bigsby said, “so when you do get one, you have to take full advantage of it and do it the best you can.

“I felt like the Patriots were going to get tired if we kept running the ball. We’ve just got to keep going and keep going and keep going, and I just took advantage of those opportunities because the film showed the fourth quarter coming, the third quarter coming, those guys were going to arm tackle and they were going to laze around, so we just did what we had to do when those operations came.

Bigsby scored on a 1-yard run to cap a six-play, 82-yard drive as the Jaguars took a 14–10 lead with 3:32 left in the first half.

Bigsby scored the game’s final touchdown on a 4-yard run with 1:41 remaining.

“He’s done a really good job for us,” Jacksonville coach Doug Pederson said. “If he goes into the season behind Etienne, he has earned the right to be there, an opportunity. He did a good job today. Ran hard, ran tough, as they say, ran behind his pillows.

But that doesn’t mean Bigsby’s performance of three career days in four games had pushed him past Etienne in the Jaguars’ pecking order in the backfield.

“I believe that injuries don’t replace your position,” Pederson said. “I think you have to have fair competition. For us, we’re blessed to have two really good running backs now, and when Etienne comes back, he’s just as explosive, just as good, just as powerful, and it’s still his job.

“But Tank has done some really good things. Obviously, we’re also going to continue to find ways to put the ball in his hands because he’s a slightly different runner than Etienne.”

Etienne, a 2021 first-round draft pick and a 1,000-yard rusher in his first two seasons, has 230 yards and two touchdowns on 56 carries and 16 receptions for 91 yards this season.

Bigsby, a third-round draft pick in 2022, has 415 yards and four touchdowns on 67 carries and one reception for 28 yards in 2024.

“I just do what I have to do to make this team win – whatever my job is, whatever my role is, whatever I have to do – to the best of my ability,” Bigsby said. “Obviously take advantage of the opportunities, but just come out and help this team win. That’s what I’m trying to do.”