Feb. 23, 2026, 9:45 a.m. ET

It’s NFL combine week for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the rest of the league.

During combine week, prospects will go through the on-field testing and position-specific drills. They’ll also undergo medical checks and meet with NFL teams.

Free agency is also on the horizon for the Jaguars, and those conversations take place this week as well.

Here you can find the schedule for the upcoming week, and below are four questions facing the Jaguars at the NFL combine.

How do the Jaguars create salary cap space?

Before free agency officially opens on March 11th, James Gladstone has some work to do when it comes to the team’s salary cap situation. According to Over the Cap, the Jaguars are $13.24 million over the projected 2026 salary cap. Not helping Jacksonville is the immense amount of dead cap they are carrying on the books this year.

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Now, there are ways to create more space, which include veteran cuts or trades, contract restructures, and in some instances, extensions, like with Travon Walker. The Jaguars do have the ability to create quite a bit more room.

In the next two weeks, we will likely see a series of cap moves made by Gladstone.

How do the Jaguars address defensive tackle?

This is arguably the biggest need on the roster. For one, more rotational depth and competition are needed, but the Jaguars also need more pass-rush juice from this unit.

Although the Jaguars’ defense as a whole was the best at defending the run, down the stretch last season, the defensive tackle position struggled to generate steady pressure on the quarterback.

When taking a look at both free agency and the NFL draft, ESPN analyst Ben Solak didn’t have very good news when it came to the defensive tackle position. So, how will Gladstone go about bolstering this unit?

Will free agents Devin Lloyd or Travis Etienne return?

These two are the Jaguars’ top free agents. Lloyd is coming off a career year and will command a good-sized payday and attention from numerous teams on the open market.

Given the Jaguars’ current cap situation, can they find a way to retain Lloyd? If not, then who is starting next to Foye Oluokun in 2026?

Etienne had a bounce-back season in 2025 and is a very good fit for Liam Coen’s offense. However, the Jaguars also planned for this moment, drafting Bhayshul Tuten and LeQuint Allen last April.

Why aren’t James Gladstone and Liam Coen at the NFL combine?

ESPN’s Michael DiRocco recently explained why Gladstone and Coen won’t be attending this year’s NFL combine.

“All those workouts, the weight lifting, on the field, that will be taped and sent back to every single team, so the Jaguars don’t feel like their brass needs to be in Indianapolis,” said DiRocco. “They can evaluate the players based on what they see on the film, and they’d rather rely on their scouting reports and the information their scouts have gathered on the players over the last several years.

DiRocco continued, “So what about the prospect visits? The chance to sit down with the players at the combine? Well, the Jaguars don’t want to conduct any of those, and they don’t want to conduct any top 30 visits either because they don’t want their opinion of a player to be changed or altered in any way based on a 15-20 minute visit. This is a system that the Rams use, and they’ve used it quite successfully, as you can see by their success over the last decade or so.”