Our Report Card: Grading The Jaguars 2026 Free Agency Moves

The first wave of 2026 NFL Free Agency is in the books, and the Jag Bros are back in the lab to hand out the official grades! 🎓 GM James Gladstone promised a "calculated" approach, but did the Jaguars do enough to keep the momentum from their 13-4 season, or did they let too much talent walk out the door? Are the Jaguars better or worse after the first week of free agency?!

In this episode, we break down every signing, every departure, and the overall strategy heading into the NFL Draft. We’re looking at the cap space, the "comp pick" obsession, and whether this roster actually got better.

In This Episode:

• Jaguars Trivia: When was the last time the Jaguars did not draft in the 1st round? When is the latest the Jaguars have ever drafted?
• How Much The Losses Hurt: What will be the impact of losing All-Pro Devin Lloyd (Panthers), Travis Etienne (Saints), Andrew Wingard (Cardinals), and Greg Newsome II (Giants).
• How Much The Additions Help: The Jags bring back Montaric "Buster" Brown to be a lockdown CB2 as well as depth at EDGE + TE with Dennis Gardeck and Quentin Morris. The Jaguars also sign RB Chris Rodriguez Jr. as their power back.
• The Departures: Grading the impact of losing All-Pro Devin Lloyd (Panthers), Andrew Wingard (Cardinals), and Greg Newsome II (Giants).
• Gladstone’s Strategy: The Jags are "hunting draft capital" and comp picks. Is that the right move? Is having 11 picks in the 2026 Draft and potentially 10 in 2027 Draft worth a quiet March?
• Our Final Team Grade: We give our HOT TAKES and final grades on the first week of the Jaguars' Free Agency. How would you grade Gladstone + the Jags?

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Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Raising Up The Next Generation Of Jags Fans
01:07 - Jaguars Draft Trivia!
03:04 - Our First Thoughts On The Jaguars Free Agency Moves
10:10 - Our Grades + Hot Takes For The Jags Free Agency Class
21:47 - 3 Biggest Position Needs Going Into 2026 NFL Draft

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

And welcome back to the Jag Bros. Another offseason episode for you guys right after the free agency moves or some lack thereof last week. We'll break that down. We'll give you our thoughts and opinions. We'll we'll talk about what what do we think about Gladstone strategy and what we potentially where our biggest needs are going into the draft. And you know what? We'll also start us off with some Jags trivia, which I think would be fun. Jack, you want to hit us up with some Jags trivia?

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Absolutely. Well, before I do, I did have to give a special shout out. We always love to give shout outs to Jags fans, Jag Bros fans. So if you want a shout out, give a five-star rating review. We'll give you one by name. But I've got to give a personal shout-out, and that's to my kiddos, uh, to our four-year-old daughter and our almost two-year-old son, because they just started listening to the Jag Bros in the car with my wife, raising up the next generation of Jag fans, which is awesome. So uh hopefully they're listening to this and they get a shout out. Man, we love Jags fans, we love the Jaguars, and we love getting a start with some Jags trivia. About a month and a half out from the draft. Your Jacksonville Jaguars do not have a first round pick because of the trade for Travis Hunter last draft. So this is a two-parter. When is the last time the Jaguars did not draft in the first round?

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Joey, do you have any ideas?

SPEAKER_02 1:28

I don't. I feel like we've been in the first round every year since I've started to really pay attention to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Uh uh, it has to be if it happened, it would be in the 90s. Uh otherwise, I I don't think that I don't think it's happened.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Well, y'all are correct. Y'all are all over it's never happened. So this could be a first, assume we don't trade back into the first. But here's part two, and this will just be interesting. Trying to think about best years of the Jaguars or trading back in the first. When is the latest that the Jaguars have ever drafted? Actually, let's do the second latest because you should be able to get 2000 as the latest, right after the 99th season. Uh, yeah, the 29th pick. When was the second latest? The second well, the the the first one would be that 2000 with RJ Soward.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Uh, so that that's the one that that immediately jumps out of my mind. I mean, we made the AFC championship a couple of times, including 2018. So it could be the 2018 year. I think we got Tavon Bryan.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

I think it was BTJ with 24.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

No, we we had a later one than that.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

So JT, you nailed it. And actually was tied for first. I had it as second, but that was the 29th pick as well. So the Jaguars picked 29th in 2018 as well. BTJ was later, I believe, 24 overall. We've had a couple late picks. 2006, we picked 28th overall, 2023, we were 27th overall. Uh but obviously right now the Jags are sitting at 56. So that would be dramatically the latest. But we'll talk draft a little bit later. But Joey, just get us right into free agency moves, who the Jags bring back, and then who the Jags let walk, and just kind of our first reactions there.

SPEAKER_02 3:10

If you haven't been keeping up, uh the Jags let walk. Travis Etienne went to the Saints for about 13 million a year. And the one that doesn't quite make sense is they let Devin Lloyd walk for only 15 million a year for three years, which felt like a very doable thing. It gives off that I don't even know if we reached out for a deal. I'm not exactly sure what the front office was thinking on that one. Uh Dewey Wingard's gone to Arizona. We re-signed Buster Brown for 11 million. We re-signed Quentin Morris, the backup tight end, and we re- re-signed Dennis Gardek as uh outside linebacker, edge guy. Uh, I'd like that one. It kind of reminds me of bringing back Key. Like, I think he had a lot of energy and is really good for this defense, but not bringing back Lloyd, who is your captain and kind of the center of this defense on a really reasonable contract boggles my mind.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Yeah, you also mentioned uh Joey, did you mention the fact that we signed Chris Rodriguez, the backup running back for the commanders from the commanders? Oh yeah. That was the only that was the only free agency move that we made was effectively letting um trading Travis Etienne or letting him walk and signing Chris Rodriguez to our running back room. Here's my question for you guys. Today, as the roster is currently structured, are we more talented or less talented than we were last season?

SPEAKER_00 4:47

I know that's gonna be every Jag's favorite question. The obvious answer is less talented, clearly. I mean, you let Devin Lloyd walk, you let ETN go, and all you brought back is Chris Rodriguez Jr. if in terms of an outside perspective, and you don't have a first round pick, and your second round pick is late. You do have 11 draft picks, but I mean, I don't know. I I did kind of foresee this and talked about this when we were previewing free agency, where I said, Joey, I know you wanted to bring back Devin Lloyd at 15 million uh uh a year, and we're gonna talk about that because yes, absolutely. But you look at well, who are we paying this year almost that exact amount? We're paying Gabe Davis almost that exact amount to not play on this team in terms of dead cap space, and so there's a lot of moves that Balkey made. We obviously Tyson Campbell is killing us in cap space, too. A lot of these moves that hurt are because of pass regime. Now, that doesn't mean Gladstone is completely absolved, but there just wasn't a ton to do. You didn't have a lot of cap space, you were super in the negative, and you don't have a lot of draft picks to go make big trades either. So, yes, they're worse, but I know we're gonna get into what we graded afterwards. I'm a lot less harsh on it just because my expectations were a lot lower than you guys going into a free agency.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

I mean, I understood the whole money thing. I knew that we weren't gonna make really any splash plays of going to sign other people's free agents. I I just didn't understand. I mean, and James Gladstone, he talked to the fans and a pressor, uh, talking about how it's gonna be difficult to replace Lloyd's numbers, and then it's like, well, you had the chance to bring it back. And you talk about how he's perfect for the system. Well, it's the same system. Anthony Campanelli hasn't left yet. You would only assume that he would grow more, but I really think that James Gladstone holds to the whole Rams philosophy, and they aren't willing to pay non-premium uh positions, which I I don't agree with. Hey, let's pay the cornerback because that's a premium position versus linebacker, you can find anyone, which I don't believe is true at all. And then running back, you can go get a cheaper free agent, which I kinda hold to. You can match, but you can't usually get better by spending less money. You're only either going to be as comparable or worse.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

So Joey's right, there's a couple of different ways to look at the salary cap and and as you're trying to manage a lot of these positions, and and ultimately linebackers are just not as valuable as corners or defensive ends or quarterbacks for that matter. And so if you're looking at, well, how in the world uh Monteric Brown, 11 million dollars, well, look, the high end for corners is much higher than 11 million, and ultimately you're paying you'd potentially be paying Lloyd at the highest level within that linebacker strand. That being said, if you actually look at production and you mention it, we have 11 picks. Can you find draft two, three corners in the mid to late rounds that are comparable to our former seventh round pick, Monteric Brown? I think the answer is yes. Can you draft two or three linebackers that are comparable to Devin Lloyd's production at almost an all-pro level last year? I think that answer is no. So, in my mind, that's a huge swing and miss. We talked about it. We also we also said a few weeks ago that we expected this to happen. We expected us to not sign Lloyd because we've had plenty of chances to do that. And we thought maybe you get Buster Brown, but but I don't understand. And then also, I'm looking at the dead cap space. Somehow we're still paying Campbell and we're paying Newsome dead cap money according to Over the Cap, which I think has the most accurate, Tyson Campbell has 19 million dollars of cap hit to us. It also says Greg Newsome has a 7 million. I don't really know if that's 100% true or not, because I thought he was on the tail end of his contract. It's possible how it was structured is different. But what was the point of that trade if if if you're gonna end up paying all of the money? I like we were praising him as this savant and able to like get rid of Tyson Campbell in that space, but all of a sudden it just hammered us anyway.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

From what I heard, um listening to different analysts and people around the Jags, they didn't do it to save money, they did it to get out of how long the contract was gonna be. They knew that they'd have to pay this year, but they're already kind of hey, let's pay the whole toll this year, and then next year there's a whole lot less dead cap and you can make a lot of moves. I'm not huge into that thought process because this is kind of like our window. So eating all of this dead cap this year really seems like a bad move, but that's what they want to do. They don't want to be with Tyson Campbell for multiple years, so trade him, eat the dead cap one year, and then he's completely off your books, is what apparently the thought process is. But I don't like that I would have moved as much of it into the future and pushed more all in for this year.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

So, question for you then. Uh in this free agency, look, things could still happen, but realistically, it's most of it's 90% of it's in the box. What would you rate grade the Jaguars on a scale of A to F?

SPEAKER_02 10:20

I I graded a C minus, and the fact that I think their only big mistake was not bringing back Lloyd. You let Etien walk $13 million for a multi-year contract, is a lot for a running back, and you seem to be very in on Tutin. You're gonna want to bring in a cheaper guy on a shorter contract, two years, five million per year, very cheap. And I think that he's actually a pretty good fit for this room. But you got nothing behind Lloyd. I don't trust Ventral Miller at all. Uh Jack Kaiser, I think, is a complete plus, and Combs is literally just a special teams linebacker. So you literally have nothing behind you, and then you hopefully are going to draft someone high, but that's never a complete hit. What happens if you miss again like you did with Kaiser? What happens if you don't get the guy that you think you do, or he gets injured, and then you have to go with absolutely nothing? This is a position that is majorly a hole that you have just emptied with no backup.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

We'll say on Devin Lloyd, I agree. I think there is a a degree where I I frankly think James Gladstone and the Jags got caught napping here, where the expectation was there's just gonna be this massive number. Everyone was shot by the exact number. There, I mean, there was rumors of 25 plus million that that number was gonna be. And I think if that happens, you can feel like, okay, that's just too much. You can do so much with 25 million a year across other positions, but they didn't negotiate. Devin Lloyd said at Pro Bowl where hey, I haven't heard anything from the Jaguars. I'm still waiting. My agent is still waiting. The fact that it was such an affordable rate that hurts, and that's got to hurt how you grade this free agency class. But again, I view it very differently. My expectations were even lower than both of y'all. I I get the the feeling like, oh, it's an all-in window, but you just there wasn't a whole lot of moves. And let's just talk about Devin Lloyd, for instance, and replacing him. I mean, there was a year ago that I mean, both of y'all have dog walked on Devin Lloyd a ton for his Jaguars history. And the hope is that Coach Camp is the secret sauce. You can't say Jack Kaiser is a bust after one year is a fifth round. This is supposed to be a loaded class at the draft in terms of linebacker. And yes, I agree. You hate to go into the draft being like you have to absolutely draft this position, but that's the position they're in. Gladstone strategy, look, it's just it's extremely different than we've ever experienced in Jacksville. He talked about in that press conference you mentioned, Joey, where he plays free agency a lot of times to get comp picks. So right now, the Jags are slated to get three comp picks from this free agency class. A 2027, fourth, fifth, and sixth is the expectation right now. And you're like, oh man, we don't need three more day three picks. What we talked about is he said, hey, I want to use this as fodder, as ammunition to go make trades like he did last season, where he took a fourth and a sixth, two day three picks and went and got Jacoby Myers. He took a sixth round pick and got a Tim Patrick. Yes, he didn't produce as much as we liked, but obviously Jacoby Myers was a home run trade. And I think with 11 picks in this draft, he's going to make trades and make big moves. So I'm gonna make y'all all mad, but I still trust the vision of trying to win now and win in the future. So I changed it even from when we texted. I give this a B. Obviously, a big miss on Devin Lloyd at that rate, but I love getting three comp picks that you can trade for the future. And I thought the other moves made a lot of sense. You need a depth that tight end an edge, and Monterek Brown is a good C B2. The cornerback room is going to be determined by how good is Travis Hunter as your C B1. That's where the Jags got burnt. Can he come be that elite shutdown corner? Monteric Brown is is perfect for a C B2 role.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

Y'all are crazy. A B? Are you kidding me? This is a D. This team is fundamentally much worse than they were last year. You did nothing. You the message you were sending is you're not going all in. The message that you're sending is that you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

But you can't always go all in. Look at the Steelers. The Steelers go all in all the time and they're perpetually like a first round exit. We don't want to be a first round exit.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Fine. Well, first off, the the Steelers have a lot of other issues, including the fact they don't have a quarterback. Um, so like that it's not a perfect. But that was true, even the last like seven. Seattle went all in. I mean, they got Cooper, they got uh they beefed up their defensive line, they made a lot of strategic moves last year. There's people that we could let the Super Bowl MVP walk, they make hard moves too. Well, I uh yes, because because of the position that they're in. But I mean, why like we couldn't get somebody else at corner? That like there's a lot of good corners out there or comparable corners.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

I just want to pause here because yes, Monteric Brown has his weaknesses, but we talk about Lloyd fitting the system perfect. You look at the numbers, who is the number one corner against zone in terms of quarterback passer rating? Monteric Brown. Who is the fourth least passer rating when targeted of all outside corners? Monteric Brown. Clearly, he can't be CB1 because of speed. He's a mid-4-5 guy, but he fits the system well. He had two picks, 12 pass deflections, and he was a cheaper rate than a lot of people said he was going to be. A lot of people thought it'd be 15 plus million. Again, I like that signing. I I get disagreements on it. Devin Lloyd was the big miss, but I I don't know what else you could have really done in that situation.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

Fine, but but you you still haven't done anything. Like you did not address defensive end, you did not address the backup tight end, you did not address anything else. And again, I'm not saying go get into the horse race to get Hendrix, uh, the Bengals, which supposedly we were in.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

I'm missing the fact that the free agency is not over. I think they will have more moves. It's just going to be after the draft, kind of like when we signed Ogba right after the draft. You're gonna see who you're able to get and what position you didn't able to get. So last year everyone thought we would get an edge, they didn't fall right on the board, so we ended up moving back and we didn't get an edge, and then we signed someone the next day after the draft. I think this team is going to sign a few more players. Whether they're going to be like two big splashes, absolutely not, but he can bring in some mid to lower level after the draft.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Well, if you if your strategy is to like screw draft picks, if your strategy is screw draft picks and go get somebody because you want playmakers at positions, regardless of the fact that you typically don't draft a corner uh at the number three pick or number two pick, sorry. Uh, and you you tr you leverage all your draft picks for that one player, who again is an A plus player, horrible uh trade in my mind, which is what I said last year. And and then it's putting a ton of pressure on your ability to manage the cap on the back end and just a lot of just questionable things. I'm not saying like go fire him or like hey, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's young, he's he's learning, and but I think you're right, Jack. I think if he could have done that over again, he might have.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

I I just yeah, I mean, look, we mishandled Devin Lloyd. We didn't pick up the year five option, which looking back, that's a no-brainer. He played way better. We mishandled, we put him in competition to even be a star. There's a world where we're just never gonna know did Devin Lloyd even want to be back? And sure, shame on Gladstone for not making the call and figuring it out, especially at that rate. But uh, I mean, we mishandled it from the jump, just in terms of the new regime coming in. And again, I like there was a ton of questions. A lot of people called him a bust, and now he looks amazing. Is he a one-hit wonder? Is his only success because of Coach Campanelli's system because he played under several other DCs? All those are legit questions. I get the frustration, and I get even grading as a D. Again, I just view it as we've never seen this strategy in Jacksonville. And I don't know if it's gonna work because we've never really followed where we try to lose in free agency. We're always kind of desperate for talent because we're always talent-starved, and so we overpay a lot of times. We overpay Christian Kirk, who I love. I still have Christian Kirk's jersey, but like we're we're always overpaying everyone else because no one wants to come to Jacksville, and now people want to come here, and now we're competitive, and you see all these top teams, they're not spending big money either. I could see it being a disaster and I could easily eat my words, but it seems like this is what a lot of the top-end teams do. The Broncos didn't bring in any outside free agents. Uh, a lot of times the Eagles are just pure build through the draft, and they let their guys walk because they have to just because they have to pay so many different guys. So I don't know. It's it's gonna be interesting, but I also I totally get, and I think there's going to be a good amount of Jags fans that are like you, JT, that you just look at this on paper and say, we're definitely worse. And we were 13 and 4. This was the year to build on, this was the year to make a big move, and we couldn't have made too big a move because we already don't like we can't trade traffics, we don't have a first round, and our second round is really late, so I get it.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

Also, by the way, Seattle, Seattle also signed um the their quarterback, so I forgot to mention that. I mean, they were a major winner in free agency last year. Both and oh, by the way, they won.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Patriots and uh Seattle were the two like most free agent teams, and they were the two teams winning the the in the season. Yeah, no, I know. I I agree that the idea of not using the free agency is a mistake, but I will also say that this year's free agency, there's not a lot of talent out there. The D tackles, there was literally one, and he went to Titans for a ton of money. Somehow Phillips got like 36 million, he's such an average edge guy. He's got a a lot of kind of dumb contracts this year. I don't think there's gonna be that many impactful players coming out of this pre-agent.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

It's a good point, Joey. If nothing else, at least I think we can all agree the Jags didn't have any dumb contracts. You didn't have a Tyson Campbell, which is just a pure roll of dice. Hopefully he gets back to 2022 level play, and we're gonna pay him top five corner money or even uh Walker Little. You know, we don't have anybody else at offensive tackle, but let's pay him big starter money now. A lot of Jags fans want to just cut him and have even more dead cap. I don't see any of these moves. The reality is, again, you didn't spend a lot. You Quentin Moore's two million. It's only a one-year deal. Gard Deck, six and a half million for two years, super affordable. Montarek Brown is the one where you spent more money, but as long as you get at least one to two more good seasons, that's a fine deal. Then Chris Rodriguez is only about six million dollars a deal. So at least you don't have any situations where we talked about, I think it was a 2024 free agency class where you're like, man, is this the worst NFL free agent class ever with Ronald Darby and Gabe Davis and all this money that we spent for terrible players? All righty.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

With that, we'll move on to what do we need to see in this draft? Uh, because obviously we're not going to probably touch the free agent market uh until after the draft. Where's their biggest holes? What do they need to fill with the four top one hundred picks? Or possibly trade up. Do y'all d do do all of us think the Jags trade up? I a hundred percent believe we trade up.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

I think we'll want to. But but I think it's it's it's harder to do that than than we give it credit for. Because we've got all these mid tier, I mean we're gonna be stuck with like 10 extra rookies, most of them fourth, fifth, and sixth, seventh round players.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Some of our best players right now have come from that range.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

But yeah, a lot of day three hits.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

So yes, I agree with you that I think we'll want to. Uh I think we like the spotlight. I think we like that stuff, but I I I don't know if it will actually transpire that way.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I think they're gonna have a very specific person in mind, and it's either going to be Caleb Banks or Jacob Rodriguez are the two that I would believe that they will trade up for. And I just don't know which one they're gonna go up and snag because you absolutely need a D-tackle, three-edge guy that can bring some pressure in the middle, and you a hundred percent need a linebacker, and I don't think there's anyone that's better fitted to fill Devin Lloyd's spot than Jacob Rodriguez, who is a very solid linebacker but makes a lot of those Devin Lloyd-esque plays, a lot of interceptions, a lot of key plays and key moments, and just is always around the ball.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Yeah, man, I love Jacob Rodriguez. He he would make so much sense. The problem is every team, every fan, every mock draft is drafting Jacob Rodriguez because he just falls way too far in mock draft. But I agree, he would be a perfect fit. The way he did to change Texas Tech's defense to get him to the playoff, to cause turnovers all the time, that fits with what the Jags defense does. But you know, so obviously, linebacker is going to be a massive need. If you're talking about biggest three needs, linebacker, clearly. Then I I mean, do we say it again? Defensive tackle, that's gotta be one. We we just haven't been able for the last four or five years, had any significant interior pass rush. So, can we get someone to bring a blitz to bring honestly? You would say defensive line because edge three, like I would be very happy with that. Someone on that defensive line that can go get after the quarterback because look, we talked about all last year. The Jags pressure numbers were amazing. The Jags could get after, they got a lot of quarterback hits, but you didn't get the big plays, the sacks. I think the Jags finished somewhere around 25th, 26th in Sacks, and you're just not going to win. You talked about the Seahawks, what'd they do? Incredible. They got after the quarterback. The Jags need to do better at that and find a way to do that in the draft.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

I completely agree. If top positions that we'll need is defense line, I would I would lean more edge simply as a rotation person to get more pressure on the quarterback. You typically don't see defensive tackles rack up a lot of uh a lot of sacks. Defensive tackle is a need. Problem is two of your top seven players that you're paying right now uh are Eric Armstead and uh Devon Hamilton uh at that defensive tackle position. Um so that that hurts that that that it's uh that it is as expensive as that is. The other position is is obviously linebacker. And and and maybe if Devin Lloyd was great in coverage this past year, he's great. He wasn't somebody that was gonna uh rush the passer a lot. So maybe you go something slightly different and and try to get somebody at that linebacker position that that can rush the the the passer. So yeah, I think all those are needs. And personally, I'd still like us to beef up the corner room because yes, Travis Hunter is potentially elite, but it's a guy who's played a handful of snaps last year and that's it. Uh Monteric Brown is really good in in zone, but has his limitations against against speedsters. So can we get another person to uh improve that cornerback and safety room? That to me would be another area that I'd be targeting.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

So obviously, we're talking a lot about defensive needs. It feels like the Jaguars are pretty set on offense, but at the same time, you have an offensive-minded coach. You have your quarterback, your franchise quarterback in that big contract window now. Like the first three or four picks, are they in your mind just all defense? Or if there's a best available player on offense, what position do you think that could be?

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Offensive line. I would think that would be an area that you would uh improve. Maybe I wouldn't be surprised if we go tight end in the middle rounds because I I don't think we have a true number two uh yet, and and so many of these teams have have a really solid number two tight end. Uh so those are the only positions that I could see us going uh offensively.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

I could see us going uh wide receiver late uh to replace kind of the Tim Patrick, uh Tim Jones-esque type wide receiver, and then tight end for sure. Uh you have a backup, you re-sign Quentin Morris, who's a solid backup, uh can really block and catch a little bit, but I think that they're gonna be looking for maybe someone who can fill that role that's not going to be a free agent constantly. So uh they'll try to get a guy mid to late who can block and catch. And that's kind of it. Maybe offensive line, uh, you can always get a tackle or guard, but I I don't see them really going center. You got Hainesy and then Mannheim's done very well. I don't think you would need a center for a while. Guard, you have uh Wyatt Milam, Walker Little can play guard, you got McCarey, Ezra Cleveland, you got quite a bit and a Doga's guard slash tackle, so you got a lot of guard space. Tackle, you got Cole Van Lannon, Anton Harrison, Walker Little. I would probably go with a tackle, but you don't have to honestly draft a uh offensive lineman this draft at all.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

I I do think we go O-line at some point earlier than probably expected. And I think you saw this in who the Jags got last free agency. They love these versatile guys. These guys can play guard and tackle, these guys who can play guard and center, multiple positions. So that because one of the most injured positions is typically offensive line. So it may look great on paper, but by week five, you're like, man, we got two injuries, and we need someone in the uh I could see a draft and develop strategy there, especially with Edra Cleveland as a free agent after this year. Haynes getting up there in age, and some questions on how much longer is Walker Little on the Jags. So uh I like that call out, you JD. I I agree on I think O line and the Jags love to win in the trenches right now. So so we'll see. We shall see. Indeed, we are 38 days out from round one of the NFL draft where the Jags may not be picking at all unless we make a massive move. So probably 39 days until the Jags draft someone. As always, Jags fans, we want to hear from you. This was uh an interesting free agency where we really did not do hardly anything. And some Jags fans are like, trust the process, trust James Gladstone. And others are saying this was a big mistake, this is our window. We want to hear from y'all which you think it is. What do you grade this offseason? We'll be back probably early to mid-April to talk more specific on the draft, some key targets we like in that round two, round three range, maybe a day three sleeper, some guys that we like for the Jags' biggest positions of need. So make sure you hit subscribe so that you'll hit that next episode. And then again, we'll give you a shout out. Drop a five star rating review, we'll give you a shout out by name. But Jag bros, let's close it out as we always do.