The Jaguars will play “everybody” in the preseason opener, said Liam Coen. The Steelers will be resting many of their starters.

Not playing vs. Jacksonville (not injury related): Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf, Jonnu Smith, Pat Freiermuth, ISasac Seumalo, Jaylen Warren, JPJ, Slay, Jalen Ramsey, DeShon Elliott, Patrick Queen, Cam Heyward, TJ Watt, Nick Herbig

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The Jacksonville Jaguars will open up their 2025 preseason schedule at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

As Liam Coen has already announced, “everybody” on the Jaguars is going to see at least some playing time.

The Steelers, however, won’t be taking the same approach with a number of their key players sitting this one out.

There’s always a lot to weigh when it comes to deciding whether or not to play the starters in the preseason. But ultimately, with two new schemes being implemented and the Jaguars having just one joint practice, Coen wants to get his team as many valuable game-like reps as he can.

“A lot of the guys want to play,” Coen said on Thursday. “You got two new systems on both sides of the ball, the one joint (practice), as I mentioned, so it kind of–I’m not saying it ties your hands because you can do whatever you want, but everything leans that way as probably being the best thing for our team right now.”

Of course, Coen will want to see the offense moving the ball up and down the field while his defense gets stops and generates turnovers. But as he told the team, the individual and team evaluation will come down to executing on the fundamentals of the offensive and defensive schemes.

“What the evaluation will be will be fundamentals, alignment, assignment, obviously situational football is going to come up as we know,” Coen said. “We’re playing a physical team. A team that’s been known for physicality regardless of if their first guys are in or not. That’s just how they’ve played the game for a long time.

“So that will be a great test for all of our groups that are going to play to see where we’re at from a physicality standpoint. It’s live tackling that we all know it’s hard to get that in a practice setting at times. So I think that will be valuable for us as well.”