The Oakland Raiders have a 6-7 record, are eliminated from the AFC West race and trail in the chase for the conference's second wild-card spot by two games with three games to play.

But rookie running back Josh Jacobs, dealing with a shoulder injury that sidelined him for the previous game, is likely to be on the field when the Raiders host the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

“My plan is to go,” Jacobs told reporters in the Oakland locker room on Friday.

The former Alabama standout sustained what he termed a “fractured shoulder” on Oct. 20 against the Green Bay Packers, then played six straight weeks with the injury and reached the 1,000-yard milestone for the 2019 season before missing Sunday’s 41-21 loss to the Tennessee Titans.

Raiders coach Jon Gruden said he didn’t “know 100 percent if he’ll play” against Jacksonville, but he said Jacobs “does look pretty good.”

Gruden said if Jacobs can go, there's no reason to hold him out on Sunday, especially with the Raiders playing their final game in Oakland before they depart for Las Vegas in the 2020 season.

“We’re never going to put a guy out there that can’t play,” Gruden said, “but we’re going into the last home game in the history of the Oakland Raiders, and it’s an emotional time. We’re going to try to win the game. We’re not eliminated from the playoffs. And we’re going to try to win every single time we strap it on.”

Gruden said Jacobs wanted to play against Tennessee. The rookie even took the pain-killing injection as he had before every game since getting hurt.

“I give him a lot of credit,” Gruden said. “He was really in tears (Sunday) wanting to play. He took a shot to play, like he’s been doing, but the injury, we just wouldn’t let him go out there and play under these circumstances.”

Jacobs said he doesn't want to be shut down for the rest of the season.

“Finish off strong, me personally, regardless of the record and things like that,” Jacobs said. “Obviously, just come in and try to implement the right things and, obviously, get this win for Oakland this week. But just trying to finish off strong on a high note to the point where we want to start off next year and go into the offseason working on it and things like that. That’s probably just the biggest thing.”

Jacobs said he'd been chastised by some for revealing his injury because it could make defensive players target his shoulder.

“Some people were like, ‘That’s going to put a target on your back,’” Jacobs said. “I feel like there’s a target on my back every week.”

Jacobs isn't concerned about making the injury worse by playing. He said he played through a broken bone in his ankle during his sophomore season at Alabama that caused him to have surgery two days after the Crimson Tide defeated Georgia 26-23 in overtime in the CFP national championship game.

This time, Jacobs said, he wouldn't need surgery.

“It’s football,” Jacobs said. “You can say it can’t get worse, and then anything can happen. You never know. But I know it’s something that I won’t need to have surgery on. That’s a positive note. But after the season, I’ll probably have to sit for a month and a half doing nothing. Just letting it heal, so we’ll see.”

Jacobs joined the Raiders as the 24th pick of the NFL Draft on April 25. With 1,061 yards and seven touchdowns on 218 carries, he ranks seventh in the NFL in rushing yardage even though he missed a game.

Jacobs won the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month Award for October and November. He’s set the Raiders’ rookie record for rushing yards, and while Marcus Allen’s franchise single-season record of 1,759 rushing yards in 1985 is out of reach, Jacobs rising to No. 2 on the Oakland list isn’t out of the question if he can play. Napoleon Kaufman’s 1,294 rushing yards in 1997 are the second-most by a Raiders ball-carrier in one season.

Oakland and Jacksonville will kick off at 3:05 p.m. CST Sunday in the Raiders' 310th and final game at the Black Hole of Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Raiders close their 2019 regular-season schedule by visiting the Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 22 and Denver Broncos on Dec. 29.

“It’s obviously a special city,” Jacobs said. “There’s already some special history that’s been going on here. The fans and things like that embracing me, so it’s definitely going to be a crazy feeling after the game knowing that this is the last one.”

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.

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