JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jack­sonville Jaguars are going with quar­ter­back Mike Glen­non against Cleve­land, giv­ing the NFL jour­ney­man his first start in more than three years.

Coach Doug Mar­rone made the announce­ment Wednes­day, three days after he con­sid­ered bench­ing rook­ie Jake Luton dur­ing a 27–3 loss to unbeat­en Pitts­burgh. Luton com­plet­ed 16 of 37 pass­es for 151 yards and four inter­cep­tions against the Steelers.

“I think he gives us the best chance to win,” Mar­rone said of Glen­non. “Mike’s expe­ri­enced and that’s why we brought him in here, to be able to fill in when­ev­er we need him. So he’ll get his opportunity.”

Luton went win­less in three starts for Jack­sonville (1–9), which has dropped nine in a row. The skid ties the longest sin­gle-sea­son los­ing streak in fran­chise history.

Luton replaced Gard­ner Min­shew (thumb) dur­ing the team’s bye week and has com­plet­ed 54.5% of his pass­es for 624 yards, with two touch­downs and six inter­cep­tions. He also was sacked sev­en times. His inex­pe­ri­ence showed in all three games, first fail­ing down the stretch in close games against Hous­ton and Green Bay and then look­ing most­ly lost against the blitz­ing Steelers.

“I told Jake that: ‘Hey, we real­ly appre­ci­ate every­thing. We real­ly like a lot of things that you’re doing, but we’re just going to take a step back and just kind of digest things for a while,’” Mar­rone said. “He’s fine and I think he’s got a chance to become a good foot­ball play­er in this league.”

Min­shew resumed throw­ing last week, but Mar­rone hasn’t seen enough to believe Min­shew is ready to return. He could end up serv­ing as Glennon’s back­up Sunday.

The 30-year-old Glen­non has start­ed 22 of 29 games over sev­en NFL sea­sons with Oak­land, Ari­zona, Chica­go and Tam­pa Bay. He has 36 touch­downs pass­es and 20 inter­cep­tions. His last start came in Week 4 in 2017 with the Bears.

And here’s the cra­zi­est part of the QB swap: Glen­non got benched in 2017 for Chicago’s Mitchell Tru­bisky, who got benched this year for Nick Foles, who got benched last year for Min­shew, who got replaced by Luton, who is now benched in favor of Glennon.

The 6‑foot‑7 Glen­non has bounced around in recent years, play­ing for Oak­land (2019), Ari­zona (2018) and Chica­go (2017) after begin­ning his career in Tam­pa Bay (2013–16). The Buc­ca­neers draft­ed him in the third round in 2013. He made $18.5 mil­lion dur­ing his one sea­son with the Bears.