CINCINNATI - The Jacksonville Jaguars overcame a penalty-riddled performance to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 22-17 at Paycor Stadium on Sunday. The Jaguars moved to 3-1 while the Bengals lost their second straight and fell to 2-2 The Jaguars came into the game as the least-penalized team in the league, but saw flags negate two Bhayshul Tuten touchdowns and a Travis Hunter interception in the first half alone. Those missed opportunities allowed the Bengals to get back into the game after an early third-quarter drive led to a touchdown that cut the lead to 13-10. But Jacksonville held on, with Chris Rodriguez Jr.'s 25-yard touchdown run with 6:35 remaining putting the Jaguars ahead for good. It's the Jaguars' 12th win in their last 13 regular-season games as they sit atop the AFC South. Joe Burrow completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards and one touchdown, along with a late rushing touchdown, but two interceptions had a major impact. The second, on first-and-goal at the Jaguars' 10-yard line by Foyesade Oluokun early in the fourth quarter, stopped what could have been a go-ahead drive. Jourdan Lewis' interception of Burrow and 45-yard return in the first half led to a Jacksonville touchdown. Cincinnati had one last shot at a go-ahead touchdown after getting the ball with 1:44 left at their own 17-yard line. But the drive stalled out in Jacksonville territory, and Burrow's fourth-and-10 completion to Chase Brown was stopped a yard short. The Bengals suffered a major loss when standout receiver Ja'Marr Chase left the game with 12:04 remaining in the second quarter with a concussion. Jaguars cornerback Jarrian Jones grabbed Chase by the facemask, and while Chase was falling to the ground, he was hit helmet-to-helmet by Jaguars linebacker Ventrell Miller. Chase left the game and was ruled out at halftime. The Jaguars host the Philadelphia Eagles next week. The Bengals will face the Miami Dolphins on the road. Box score | Week 4 live blog | Game discussion Burrow's turnovers are becoming a concerning trend for Cincinnati. When Burrow came back from his toe injury last year, he played the cleanest football of his career. He only posted two turnover-worthy plays all of last season, using a less chaotic brand of football from the pocket. This year, he's created his own chaos by throwing a series of confounding interceptions that cost the Bengals. There were two more on Sunday. The first came late in the first half. The second ended a possession in the red zone where he threw a pass directly to Oluokun. Both led to the only Jacksonville touchdowns of the day. Coach Zac Taylor didn't put the first interception on Burrow after the game, blaming it on being hit as he threw. Burrow recognized he didn't see the linebacker on the interception in the red zone and that one was on him. Burrow allowed Tampa Bay back into the opener by throwing a third-quarter pick-six. Then, he saw last week's loss at Pittsburgh end on a costly fumble. The red-zone pick wasn't a product of tipped passes or unlucky bounces. These are bad decisions. Avoiding turnover-worthy plays has been a Burrow calling card throughout his best seasons, but his turnover-worthy play rate is the highest since his rookie year. Thus far, those plays obscure otherwise outstanding play from the Bengals' quarterback. Taylor made abundantly clear postgame how he feels about the turnover trend. "To say that I am concerned," Taylor said, "in no way, shape or form am I concerned about that." - Paul Dehner Jr., Bengals beat writer The Jaguars rebounded from penalties, and the defense stepped up. Is Jacksonville a true AFC contender? The Jaguars' 13-3 halftime advantage would've been bigger if not for the team's most penalized half of the season. Jacksonville, which entered the game with just 15 penalties across its first three games, was flagged 10 times for 100 yards in the first half, including on plays that took back a pair of Tuten touchdowns due to offensive holding. But the Jaguars cleaned it up after the break and committed just three penalties the rest of the game. From there, they leaned on coordinator Anthony Campanile's defense to build back their double-digit lead. Jacksonville intercepted Burrow twice, the second of which halted a potential go-ahead touchdown drive early in the fourth quarter. The resulting 76-yard touchdown drive from the Jaguars made it a two-score game and left Paycor Stadium in a pall. Amid the Bengals' spirited last-minute rally, Jaguars cornerback Rayuan Lane III came up with the game-sealing tackle of Brown on fourth-and-10 at the Jacksonville 12. Across the last two games, Campanile's unit has held the reigning AFC champion New England Patriots to six points and Burrow and the Bengals to just 17. That's a big reason why the Jaguars have won 12 of their last 13 regular-season games dating back to last season, with the lone loss coming in Denver in Week 2. A month into the 2026 campaign, Jacksonville looks every bit the AFC contender it finished last season as. - Zak Keefer, NFL senior writer How did the Bengals manage life without Chase? When Chase went down in the first half, the Bengals lost the focal point of their offense, which mattered even more than normal on a day when they had zero success running the ball. Instead, Burrow began featuring Tee Higgins. In the news conference when Higgins and Chase signed extensions in 2025, Chase made clear Higgins wasn't a No. 2 receiver, but rather 1A in Cincinnati. Higgins spent the day backing that notion up. He caught 11 passes for 157 yards, including multiple highlight grabs along the sideline, and consistently broke open no matter what coverage Jacksonville threw at him. The bigger problem was the lack of run game and turnovers that changed the dynamic of the game. Cincinnati only managed 16 yards on 12 carries by its running backs. Mike Gesicki made a handful of plays, including an 18-yard touchdown reception, but the offense mostly became about Burrow to Higgins. That made the dramatic conclusion even more difficult when Higgins was sidelined with an injury, forcing Burrow to make do with Mitchell Tinsley and Dohnte Meyers. "I think it mainly changed how they were playing," Burrow said of losing Chase. "When a guy like Ja'Marr goes out, it is going to be tough. Those guys came in and really stepped up, Dohnte, Mitch, Tanner (Hudson) and Mike and really Tee for a good part of the game, too, balled as well. Tanner, Mike, Mitch and Dohnte, can't say enough about those guys." - Dehner It's hard to put this one on the Bengals' defense. They were far from perfect. They allowed the Jaguars' running game to break off a 25-yard touchdown and couldn't get enough third-down stops, specifically on the Jags' final drive when Trevor Lawrence converted a third down. But they got after Lawrence with the pass rush most of the day. They were banged up in the secondary, but mostly held up on the back end and even got the ball back to Burrow for one final drive. This game swung on the two Burrow interceptions. - Dehner