JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Jaguars have run the play twice this season, and both times it has gone for touchdowns.

Quarterback Blake Bortles fakes a handoff to a running back, turns his back to the line of scrimmage and fakes an end-around handoff, and then turns around and throws a pass. Great design and great execution have made it work.

Don’t expect to see it every week, though. It works only against certain defensive alignments, and it does expose the quarterback to a potential blind-side wallop should an offensive lineman miss his block. The Jaguars will pick their spots with it.

“You’re only going to utilize it during a specific look,” offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said. “I think that if you get something else that might be a little bit crazy you don’t want to run it. We put a lot on Blake just trying to understand why we want that play and then to get us out of it or keep us in it and understand kind of how we’re attacking it. Blake has done a really good job on that.”

The Jaguars first used it Week 3 against Baltimore. Bortles faked a handoff to Chris Ivory, faked an end-around to receiver Marqise Lee, and then found tight end Marcedes Lewis down the right sideline for a 17-yard touchdown.

The Jaguars used it again last Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams but with a couple tweaks. Bortles faked a handoff to Ivory and then faked an end-around to speedy running back Corey Grant, who had lined up out wide. Instead of throwing the ball downfield, Bortles dumped off a screen pass to Ivory, who went 22 yards for a touchdown.

Bortles likes the play but admits it’s a bit unnerving to have his back to the defense for a full second or two.

“Those are always a little scary,” he said. “You just have to trust the guys up front and trust the play, that it was a good action, and hopefully the guy that’s free bites on that. It’s been good for us. We’ve done it a couple times, hit a screen on one, threw one down the field -- had one called for down the field -- but it’s definitely, you try to peak out of the corner of your eye so you don’t get killed.”

The Jaguars have had it called several other times this season but didn’t get the defensive look they wanted and Bortles audibled to another play. As for whether the play will become a regular part of the offense ...

“It works,” he said. “So as long as it works, I’ll run it as much as they want.

“... He [Hackett] can call it as much as he wants until I get hit in the back of the head.”