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How many Jacksonville Jaguars players could make 2025 NFL top 100 rankings?
How many players on the Jacksonville Jaguars could appear on the NFL top 100 list for the 2025 season? How many players on the Jacksonville Jaguars could appear on the NFL top 100 list for the 2025 season? The NFL is set to unveil its list of the top 100 players for the upcoming season, as voted on by the players, beginning on June 30th. The unveiling of these rankings will run through August 29th, with two new players being revealed each weekday as the countdown goes from No. 100 down to No. 1. The player reveals will take place on X at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM ET on weekdays and feature a three to five-minute video about each member on the list. Which Jacksonville Jaguars players could make the NFL's top 100 list in 2025? On the 2024 NFL top 100, the Jaguars had two players on the list, with quarterback Trevor Lawrence coming in at No. 94 and defensive end Josh Hines-Allen at No. 35. Those two again will be top candidates to make this year's list, and I'm sure wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. is a safe bet as well, after he was one of the most productive receivers in the NFL as a rookie, totaling the third-most receiving yards in 2024. Defensive end Travon Walker is another name to watch for. He was top-20 last season among his position group in pressures, along with recording double-digit sacks for the second consecutive year.
USA Today
2 days ago
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Jaguars urged to sign former No. 1 overall pick to boost defensive end depth
With training camp now on the horizon, what is one final roster move that the Jacksonville Jaguars need to make? ESPN recently weighed in. With training camp now on the horizon, what is one final roster move that the Jacksonville Jaguars need to make? ESPN's Aaron Schatz recently answered this question for each NFL team, and when it came to the Jaguars, further bolstering the defensive end depth by signing former No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney is the move that was selected. "The Jaguars have a strong pair of starting edge rushers with Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker," Schatz wrote. "But there are questions about the depth behind them. Emmanuel Ogbah is 32 years old and had just five sacks as a full-time starter in Miami last season. Myles Cole had no sacks on 11.3% of defensive snaps as a seventh-round rookie." Adding to the depth behind Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker has already been a priority for the Jaguars. Since the draft ended, GM James Gladstone has already signed Emmanuel Ogbah, Dennis Gardeck, and Dawuane Smoot. So, given that those players have been brought in over Clowney already, I'm not sure another addition at defensive end is in the cards for the Jaguars. With that said, the reason three veteran signings have been made is because improved depth behind Hines-Allen and Walker is a must. While those two will shoulder the workload here, this is a heavily rotated position with four or sometimes even five players seeing snaps each week, which puts a premium on having strong depth. "You want, we talked about it the other day, waves of maybe some different types of rushers at times," Liam Coen said of the defensive end depth. "When you're playing in the trenches specifically, when you come in and maybe you're a UDFA or a rookie in general, that size, that strength, that speed, especially in the trenches, is different for anybody. "So there's always a curve, there's always going to be a learning curve and physical growth curve that is going to occur. But getting some of those guys that have established themselves in this league and played meaningful snaps, I think will just help us in times of crisis and just to be a little bit more consistent in some way, knowing that we're pretty young as a team in general." Clowney spent the 2024 season with the Carolina Panthers, where he appeared in 14 games, totaling 44 pressures and six sacks. Among all defensive ends, Clowney ranked 20th in PFF's pass rush win rate metric. Clowney has made three Pro Bowls in his 11 NFL seasons and was named a second-team All-Pro once back in 2016. According to Over the Cap, the Jaguars have $18.91 million in available salary cap space still remaining.
USA Today
02-06-2025
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- USA Today
Josh Hines-Allen shares early impressions of Anthony Campanile and new Jaguars' defense
Josh Hines-Allen shares early impressions of Anthony Campanile and new Jaguars' defense After Monday's OTA practice, DE Josh Hines-Allen shared his early impressions of Anthony Campanile and the Jaguars' new defense. When Emmanuel Ogbah described what it is like playing for new Jacksonville Jaguars' defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile, a few of the traits he mentioned were his "energy" and "toughness." For Josh Hines-Allen, it's Campanile's love and passion for the game and his players that stick out. "Coach Camp has been awesome," Hines-Allen said after Monday's practice. "You step in that meeting room, you're going to expect one thing, it's the passion, it's the love. It's the love of the game he has. Calais (Campbell) always told me, if you want to be great at something, you gotta love it, you gotta respect it. And so for me, he respects the game, he loves it, he loves the team, he loves the players that are playing for him." Under Campanile, this is going to be a more malleable defensive scheme, meaning that it will be quick to adjust on a week-to-week basis, and in-game, depending on what the opponent is doing. Like any play-caller, Campanile has his core principles that his system is built around, but he will mold the scheme to what his players do well and the skill sets he has on the roster to work with. In the secondary, Campanile discussed recently the importance of versatility, which can help disguise coverages and keep quarterbacks guessing. While up front, Maason Smith highlighted the attacking play style that the defense line is asked to play with in this system. Of course, the scheme, the implementation of it, and the execution on the field all matters immensely. But also at the top of the priority list for Campanile is making sure this Jaguars' defense has a "tough, fast, physical, and violent at the point of attack" play style. With Campanile leading the way, the defenders that were already on the roster, and the additions made this offseason, the Jaguars are a team that appears to be on the right path. However, as Campanile says, and as Hines-Allen reiterated, "talk is cheap." Improved play on defense begins with what the Jaguars are doing right now in practice and the foundation they are laying. "It starts right now," said Hines-Allen. "Coach Camp has a saying, talk is cheap. We can talk about how good we're going to be or how legendary our defense or individual players can be, it's all about the work we put in every day. The communication that we have in the red zone, backed up situations, playing good situational football. Knowing what everybody has to do, being in the right place, and it starts out here. "If we can stack great days out here, if we can keep doing it, and then we put the pads on, and we can continue to be physical up front, linebackers flying downhill, DBs staying in the backfield because we don't kneed them because we're stopping the run up front, and we got pass rushers up front. It's all about that trust."
USA Today
02-06-2025
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- USA Today
Jacksonville Jaguars' DE Josh Hines-Allen on changes made after 2024 season
Jacksonville Jaguars' DE Josh Hines-Allen on changes made after 2024 season Following Monday's OTA practice, Jaguars' DE Josh Hines-Allen discussed some of the changes made after the 2024 season. Along with implementing a new defensive scheme, another change for Jacksonville Jaguars' defensive end Josh Hines-Allen this season is that he will be playing at a lighter weight. Following Monday's practice, Hines-Allen didn't get into specifics about what his current weight is, but the 285 pounds he played at in 2024 was too big. "I was 285," Hines-Allen said of his playing weight last season. "I was much bigger. My mindset was always to be as dominant but it was, obviously, holding a little bit more weight puts a little more wear and tear on the body. "It was a lot. Too much. Again, learned to adapt, have know what works best for you, something I tried, and something I'm like, alright, probably don't want to do that again. So we're working on maintaining a good goal for me this year and put some good tape out there." It's not only Hines-Allen who has dropped weight this offseason, but several other Jaguars' defenders have as well, after that side of the ball put on weight last season under former defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen. 'Just kind of getting some of those guys back to their natural playing weight. Just kind of where they've maybe been in years past of having success and kind of getting back to that is really what it came down to," Liam Coen said this week, via Jaguars on SI. Last season, Hines-Allen was still among the NFL's more productive defensive ends. His 63 quarterback pressures were the 10th-most in football among his position group, and he ranked 16th in PFF's pass rush win rate as well. But compared to his 2023 season, Hines-Allen's production took a big dip last season. By PFF's metrics, Hines-Allen totaled 90 pressures and 19 sacks in 2023, ranking in the top five in both categories. Allen would play 821 snaps last season and make 16 starts. However, throughout the year, his body felt more "banged up," and while he doesn't know if that was directly attributed to his playing weight, it is something he took into consideration as he planned out this offseason. "I was also getting banged up a lot more," Hines-Allen added. "My body was not cooperating as much as I wanted it to. But I take care of my body to the utmost, but it was a little bit different. I don't know if that had something to do with the weight, so that's something I took into consideration coming into this year." Feeling good and now in a defensive scheme under Anthony Campanile, where as Maason Smith described, the defensive front can play "a lot more free," Hines-Allen is chasing big goals in 2025. "To break the sack record," said Hines-Allen when asked what his goals were. "Be an All-Pro and win Defensive Player of the Year."
Yahoo
16-05-2025
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Jaguars' Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker primed to make history in 2025
It's been a while since a recent Jacksonville Jaguars player has broken any franchise records. The last notable one was Maurice Jones-Drew, who broke Fred Taylor's rushing touchdown mark in 2013. Aside from that, many of the Jacksonville Jaguars' franchise records have been long held by the likes of Mark Brunell, Jimmy Smith, and Rashean Mathis. In 2025, Josh Hines-Allen will have the opportunity to pass Tony Brackens as the Jaguars' all-time sack leader. Advertisement Tony Brackens' 55 career sacks have remained unbroken since his release and retirement in 2004. Since then, no one has really even come close… until now. Josh Hines-Allen, after 25.5 sacks the last two seasons, is on the doorstep of passing Brackens. He needs just two to tie. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< While Hines-Allen figures to break the Jaguars' all-time sack record at just 28 years old, Travon Walker is quickly climbing his way up the sack ranks as well. Walker, just 24 years old, is already ninth in sacks with 24 to his name. If Walker is able to net himself a third consecutive double-digit sack season, he'll comfortably be top five in franchise history. He would also become the first player in franchise history to post three double-digit sack seasons and to do it consecutively, no less. Advertisement That is incredible for someone who doesn't even turn 25 years old until December. To add to Walker's record ascent, he now needs just 13.5 sacks to tie Yannick Nagkoue for the third most in franchise history. That isn't out of the realm of possibility in 2025, especially with his marked improvement. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] The Jaguars' pass-rush certainly was lackluster last season to say the least, however, the duo of Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker remains one of the league's best tandems. They were the only pairing to both be featured inside the NFL's Top-15 pressures list. It's almost a given that Hines-Allen will pass Brackens' record this coming season. The question is how far he will separate himself from the pack and how closely Walker will tail him. It isn't crazy to think these two could very well be first and second all-time in just a few more years. Advertisement [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
