ESPN ranked our rookie class 31st. Funny I actually really like this class
January 16, 2026
ESPN ranked our rookie class 31st. Funny I actually really like this class
18 comments
Can you blame theme? Not everyone watches every jags to see the flashes and there stats on paper aren’t impressive
We had a few injuries that essentially led to guys red shirting their rookie years.
Tuten and Allen were great values. Monheim and Lane seem like solid depth players. Our UDFA class actually played well, which is something
A few singles, overall. Just no home runs cause our clean-up hitter busted his knee during the bye week.
Excited for Milum to potentially get playing time at RG next year. Gladstone and the gang seemed really pumped for Ransaw before the injury, so that one could be fun.
It’s also worth noting: we got great value from our free agents (Lewis, Gardeck, Smoot, Murray) and young vets (Buster Brown and Parker Washington) so rookies didn’t really NEED to step up for more than spot starts.
This disrespect for LeQuint Allen Jr. will not stand.
So many injuries for all our rookies.
Hopefully next year we’ll have better luck.
Seriously, the fact that we won the AFC South after all the injuries we had is a remarkable thing.
With how things turned out this year we won’t get a true idea of how good or bad our class was until next season, injuries put setbacks on our biggest picks so who knows, also with the potential of ETN not being here (hopefully won’t be true) Tuten could become the main back and make our class “flashier” depending what he does
Isn’t ESPN the ones that had us with an 9-8 record before the wild card? Who cares what these hacks say?
I’m not offended. Ransaw didn’t play, Milum didn’t play most of the season, Kiser really didn’t see the field, and yet we still won 13 games!
No mention of Ransaw, makes sense since he didn’t play but hes a pretty high pick and drafts are all about the future
You also have to consider UDFAs as a part of the draft class and BJ Green and Striggow were solid rotational pieces for us
You’re leaving out important context. It’s ranked 31st on rookie impact, which is in large part measured by snaps played and games started. The rookie class barely had any starts, so based on those metrics the ranking makes sense. Plenty of reasons to hate on ESPN, but this isn’t one of them.
We got a seventh round center who was good and a seventh round running back who immediately became our 3rd down back. Nobody will recognize it, but that’s genius level drafting. Mohiem might be a starter soon. And we basically took a 7th round rookie and got rid of Tank for some pics who we would have had to pay sooner to keep. It also let us trade Fortner away for a D tackle (that didn’t work out but was still smart).
> We want to emphasize that this list is based only on how much production teams got out of their rookies in their first season — it’s not predictive. There might be great future contributions from rookies such as Travis Hunter (knee) and Cam Skattebo (ankle), but those players missed much of the 2025 campaign because of injury.
It literally says this is based solely on production…
31st is too low I feel. Injuries to Hunter, Ransaw and Milum makes it hard to properly evaluate. Very unfortunate injury luck.
A lot of them did not play.
I mean, this is fair. Took Hunter a few games to start making plays and then he got a season ending injury. All we really got rookie wise were Tuten and Allen. We just didn’t have any standout “holy shit” rookies like some other teams had, so I understand the lower ranking. Plus, we had a banger of a season without much help from our rookies, so who cares?
Honestly was a mid rookie class until we see more. It’s a fair thing to say. I loved struggle though
It’s a little low but not far off.
My takeaway is that is feels like we fast forwarded to a team that has starting level players at all positions and we drafted low in each round so our rookies are moreso “jars on the shelf” and depth than players who are expected to contribute immediately
BJ Green being robbed of a sack didn’t help this ranking
18 comments
Can you blame theme? Not everyone watches every jags to see the flashes and there stats on paper aren’t impressive
We had a few injuries that essentially led to guys red shirting their rookie years.
Tuten and Allen were great values. Monheim and Lane seem like solid depth players. Our UDFA class actually played well, which is something
A few singles, overall. Just no home runs cause our clean-up hitter busted his knee during the bye week.
Excited for Milum to potentially get playing time at RG next year. Gladstone and the gang seemed really pumped for Ransaw before the injury, so that one could be fun.
It’s also worth noting: we got great value from our free agents (Lewis, Gardeck, Smoot, Murray) and young vets (Buster Brown and Parker Washington) so rookies didn’t really NEED to step up for more than spot starts.
This disrespect for LeQuint Allen Jr. will not stand.
So many injuries for all our rookies.
Hopefully next year we’ll have better luck.
Seriously, the fact that we won the AFC South after all the injuries we had is a remarkable thing.
With how things turned out this year we won’t get a true idea of how good or bad our class was until next season, injuries put setbacks on our biggest picks so who knows, also with the potential of ETN not being here (hopefully won’t be true) Tuten could become the main back and make our class “flashier” depending what he does
Isn’t ESPN the ones that had us with an 9-8 record before the wild card? Who cares what these hacks say?
I’m not offended. Ransaw didn’t play, Milum didn’t play most of the season, Kiser really didn’t see the field, and yet we still won 13 games!
No mention of Ransaw, makes sense since he didn’t play but hes a pretty high pick and drafts are all about the future
You also have to consider UDFAs as a part of the draft class and BJ Green and Striggow were solid rotational pieces for us
You’re leaving out important context. It’s ranked 31st on rookie impact, which is in large part measured by snaps played and games started. The rookie class barely had any starts, so based on those metrics the ranking makes sense. Plenty of reasons to hate on ESPN, but this isn’t one of them.
We got a seventh round center who was good and a seventh round running back who immediately became our 3rd down back. Nobody will recognize it, but that’s genius level drafting. Mohiem might be a starter soon. And we basically took a 7th round rookie and got rid of Tank for some pics who we would have had to pay sooner to keep. It also let us trade Fortner away for a D tackle (that didn’t work out but was still smart).
> We want to emphasize that this list is based only on how much production teams got out of their rookies in their first season — it’s not predictive. There might be great future contributions from rookies such as Travis Hunter (knee) and Cam Skattebo (ankle), but those players missed much of the 2025 campaign because of injury.
It literally says this is based solely on production…
31st is too low I feel. Injuries to Hunter, Ransaw and Milum makes it hard to properly evaluate. Very unfortunate injury luck.
A lot of them did not play.
I mean, this is fair. Took Hunter a few games to start making plays and then he got a season ending injury. All we really got rookie wise were Tuten and Allen. We just didn’t have any standout “holy shit” rookies like some other teams had, so I understand the lower ranking. Plus, we had a banger of a season without much help from our rookies, so who cares?
Honestly was a mid rookie class until we see more. It’s a fair thing to say. I loved struggle though
It’s a little low but not far off.
My takeaway is that is feels like we fast forwarded to a team that has starting level players at all positions and we drafted low in each round so our rookies are moreso “jars on the shelf” and depth than players who are expected to contribute immediately
BJ Green being robbed of a sack didn’t help this ranking