The Jacksonville Jaguars are heading to Empower Field at Mile High for Broncos Game Today, a Week 2 meeting with the Denver Broncos on Sunday at 4:05 p.m. The game arrives with both teams carrying division-champion status into the early season, and it gives the Jaguars another road test in a week that has already centered on how they handle travel, pressure and expectation.
That is the search term now because this is not just another September game. The Jaguars enter at 1-0, the Broncos at 0-1, and the matchup pairs the defending AFC South champion against the defending AFC West champion. It also returns Denver to the center of the conversation after the Broncos opened the season with a 31-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football.
What gives this week its edge is what happened the last time these teams met. The Jaguars beat the Broncos 34-20 in Denver last December, so Sunday is not being framed as a random trip but as a return to a place where Jacksonville already has proof it can win. Liam Coen said the Jaguars have handled the week well and described them as “a grimy” team that can be counted on to play hard, play physically and be ready to play.
Coen’s message fits the schedule around it. He said the Jaguars will play 11 games away from Jacksonville this season and 28 over the next two seasons, which makes road composure part of the identity, not an occasional test. The Broncos game sits squarely inside that reality, and it comes at a time when the Jaguars are trying to make their early record mean something before the season gets away from them.
There is also a detail that keeps this from reading like a clean setup. The Broncos are the defending AFC West champions, but they are coming off a lopsided opening loss and now have to answer in front of their own crowd. That gives the game a split character: one team is trying to protect a strong start, while the other is trying to avoid letting one bad night become a pattern.
Emmanuel Pregnon added the clearest personal note in the buildup when he joined John Oehser for the Week 2 2026 O-Zone Podcast and said he knew what he came here to do and wanted to help his team the best way he could. That kind of comment fits a game that is being treated less like a standings check and more like a statement about who the Jaguars want to be under Coen.
By Sunday afternoon in Denver, the question will not be whether the matchup matters. It already does. The question is whether the Jaguars can turn another road trip into another early marker, or whether the Broncos can use home field and urgency to reset their season before Week 2 ends.
