Jan. 17, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET
There will have to be a change made to the Jacksonville Jaguars’ coaching staff on the offensive side of the football.
According to Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports, Jaguars‘ assistant offensive line coach and run game specialist Keli’i Kekuewa is going to be hired by Stanford as their offensive line coach.
The 2025 season was Kekuewa’s first in Jacksonville, as he was brought onto the coaching staff by Liam Coen.
From 2021-2023, he was the Seattle assistant offensive line coach before joining Panthers‘ coach Dave Canales in Carolina for the 2024 season in that same role.
This season, the Jaguars’ offensive line unit ranked ninth in ESPN’s pass-block win rate metric and sixth in run-block win rate. The depth of this unit was tested throughout the year due to injuries, but the offensive line continued to produce almost regardless of what the configuration was.
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Shaun Sarrett is still the Jaguars’ offensive line coach. Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union mentioned Trevor Mendelson, an offensive assistant this season, as an in-house candidate to fill Kekuewa’s role.