On Tuesday, the Jacksonville Jaguars took to the Miller Electric practice fields for their second day of padded practices in 2025, with this one being slightly longer and more physical than Monday’s affair. With a near-sold out attendance, the highly-competitive Tuesday training camp featured many expected impressive performances, with maybe a few surprising names. Here are our top highlights and observations from Day 6 of Jaguars’ training camp at the Miller Electric Center practice fields.

Notes from practice

CB Jarrian Jones put up a second consecutive dominant day in converge on Tuesday, with two forced incompletions in the teams period (one of which was arguably a pass breakup). He then took the practice temperature up to another level, after giving up a five-yard catch in the 1-on-1 session against Brian Thomas Jr. He would follow up that rep with a game-changing play. This one an impressive one-handed interception, snatched from Thomas Jr’s grasp on the slightly late and/or off target throw from Lawrence.

That’s back to back practices with highlight plays made from the second-year corner out of FSU. With the additional snaps since Montaric Brown’s early training camp injury, Jones has stepped up in a big way this week. With his play continuing to be at this level, he could potentially push Jourdan Lewis for a starting role.

Defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile spoke about Jones after practice:

“He’s a great competitor. He really works hard to play with technique. I think he did a great job in the spring, and then he really worked. He’s one of the guys who really worked hard in the summer, was with a lot of the guys on the team, working technique, studying, so he came back to camp really ready to go. I see a lot of the drill work he’s doing every day is showing up now. The muscle memory is starting to set in, and he’s really playing with good technique. It is starting to show up in all the one-on-one work and team periods”.

He later continued…

”He’s going to give you everything he’s got until the end of the play, so I think that was awesome that he was rewarded on that.”

WR Travis Hunter completed his second consecutive day on offense, with a smooth looking day running his routes. Hunter would open his day with a redzone touchdown, breaking free of the coverage in a scramble drill. Lawrence would find him settled in the hole within the zone at the back of the endzone for the catch. He would then catch three additional targets between the 1-on-1 and 11-on-11 teams periods, with another near-touchdown in the redzone period where he failed to get his second foot down.

S Eric Murray collected a nice pass breakup during the redzone 11-on-11 period while covering TE Brenton Strange. However, the other safety position opposite of Murray may still be awaiting someone to jump off the tape and take the reins (Antonio Johnson, Caleb Ransaw, Dewey Wingard, Rayun Lane, etc).

CB Jourdan Lewis continues his placement on this list of spotlight players with another day of quality secondary play in coverage. Lewis had one stop for five yards on Hunter Long, with an impressive pass breakup when matched up against Austin Trammell in the 11-on-11 period.

WR Joshua Cephus went 2/2 in the 1-on-1 period, beating Christian Braswell and Aydan White on each play. However, Eli Pancol also had a comparable day, also going 2/2, with an impressive, out-breaking route on a deep catch over White in the 1-on-1 period.

QB Trevor Lawrence had another quality day, managing the offense. Jamal Saint Cyr for News4Jax had Lawrence at 11/15 with a touchdown in the 11-on-11 periods. Outside of my (albeit small) criticism on the Jarrian Jones 1-on-1 interception, I thought this was probably one of Lawrence’s best days passing the ball in camp. He timely and arcuately hit Dyami Brown on a 30-35-yard ball during the two-minute drill period and marched the team down the field for the Cam Little field goal as time expired.

It was a quieter day for WR Brian Thomas Jr who scored no touchdowns in today’s practice, while securing three catches on five total targets (two catches on three targets in teams periods; one catch on two targets, and an interception in 1-on-1s).

RB LeQuint Allen had what looked to be an effective day in pass protection in the 11-on-11 periods. He did however, drop his second intended target in today’s practice, The normally sure-handed back (in college) previously dropped his first pass of camp in Day 4 of camp.

RB Travis Etienne broke off two noticeably explosive rushes in today’s practice, with the offensive line having occasional success getting movement up front. RB Tank Bigsby also had a longer (15-20-yard rush on the day.

LB Jack Kiser recorded a “sack” of Nick Mullens in the 11-on-11 period. Additionally, DE Josh Hines-Allen beat RT Anton Harrison in the 11-on-11 redzone period for a would be sack of Lawrence (LB Devin Lloyd was also there).

K Cam Little went 4/4 on field goals in the teams periods, making the longest from around 40-yards out. He also made 4/4 during the earlier warmups, by my count.
The team brings has Wednesday off and will return on Thursday, before Friday’s late afternoon scrimmage at the stadium.

Injuries

G Patrick Mekari: was still out due to back spasms and tightness.

CB Montaric Brown: continues to be day to day. He has been held out of three consecutive practices as a precaution.

TE Johnny Mundt: day to day with an undisclosed injury.

TE Hunter Long: left practice with an ankle injury and is reportedly day-to-day.

WR Louis Rees-Zammit: was seen on the field, but not during the teams and 1-on-1 periods. Unknown if he is still day to day with an undisclosed injury.

DT Maason Smith & LB Dennis Gardeck are both still on the Active/PUP list

Notes from pressers

Coach Campanile summarized his view of the defenses’ past two days of padded practices as this:

“I think today, we practiced a little bit more physical on our side. I thought we were communicating well, flying around. To me, it’s always about the play style, how you’re playing on defense. I think we’re trending the right way but there’s a lot of work to do. To answer your question, what I do like is the physicality today, and we’re starting to get a good culture in our room.”

LB Foye Oluokun then had this to say when discussing his excitement over getting their “chip back on their shoulder”:

“Obviously, last year did not go great. It’s easy to get down on yourself, kind of get through. That’s a toxic mindset of football there, and we got through the season abysmally. So, come back this season, try to right our wrongs and let’s get out on the right foot.”

He later continued, discussing players all knowing their assignments:

“I think it’s so important for the whole defense to know what everybody’s doing. When you have trusted people behind you, it’s really cool. I’m seeing the growth that we take as a whole defense and the growth that I’m taking as a player just playing my play. I remember Coach Caldwell [former Defensive Coordinator Mike Caldwell] called me an eraser way back in the day and sometimes that hurts you because you’re trying to make sure everybody else is right. Obviously, I’m around the ball every play, but I can just trust my play, and if the ball gets funneled back to me, staying in my gap, then I feel like I can make even more splash plays.”

You can catch the entire presser here.

Stay tuned for more updates from the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 2025 training camp!