Jaguars wide receiver Brian Thomas is coming off two straight games without a catch and he didn’t play at all in the second half of the team’s Week 6 loss to the Texans.

Thomas had a drop in the first half of that game and his ongoing role on a team with several other receiving options has been the subject of conversation with the trade deadline less than two weeks away. Head coach Liam Coen said this week that he expects Thomas to make plays for the team in this week’s game against the Colts and Thomas said on Wednesday that his approach coming out of the bye week has been to let go of what happened in the past.

“I really just wanted to flush it, come back ready with a different mindset and come back ready to go,” Thomas said, via the team’s website. “That was the biggest thing for me. . . . I feel I still know what I can do. I just have to go out and do it and go out there and show everybody what I can do.”

Thomas had 87 catches for 1,282 yards as a rookie, but had 57 catches for 812 yards since Coen became the coach ahead of the 2025 season. That hasn’t stopped the Jags from winning games — the Jags are 17-5 in the regular season with Coen — and those differing fortunes are a big reason why Thomas’s name frequently comes up in trade rumors. Such talk has been rebuffed thus far, but Thomas will likely have to show more in the next couple of weeks to put them to bed for good.