{"id":194023,"date":"2025-07-09T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194023\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:15:10","slug":"one-jacksonville-jaguars-player-makes-best-nfl-team-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/194023\/","title":{"rendered":"One Jacksonville Jaguars’ player makes ‘best NFL team money can buy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL.com’s Tom Blair <\/a>set out to build the best NFL roster while staying under the 2025 salary cap, and included was one member of the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I embarked on a perfect July exercise,” wrote Blair, “building The Best Team Money Can Buy, assembling the most imposing 53-man roster I could under the 2025 NFL salary cap.”<\/p>\n

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The starting long-snapper on Blair’s team is the Jaguars<\/a>‘ Ross Matiscik, who comes with a cap hit in 2025 of just $1.33 million.<\/p>\n

“No need to overcomplicate things when it comes to the specialists,” wrote Blair. “Let’s round out the 53 with a pair of multi-time Pro Bowlers and former first-team All-Pros (Brandon Aubrey and Ross Matiscik).”<\/p>\n

Of note, the Jaguars’ Brian Thomas Jr., who is on a rookie deal, does seem like a great fit for this cap-conscious roster. But instead, Blair went with Justin Jefferson, Puka Nacua, Ladd McConkey, Khalil Shakir, Nico Collins, and KaVontae Turpin at wide receiver.<\/p>\n

Matiscik<\/a> has been a Pro Bowler in each of the last two seasons. In 2023, he was a first-team All-Pro, while being named a second-team All-Pro in 2024.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jaguars’ LS Ross Matiscik makes ‘best NFL team money can buy’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL.com’s Tom Blair set out to build the best NFL roster while staying under the 2025 salary cap,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[6203,4133,7,212,125,2401,213,2780,9116,7468,470,6,533,1088,16841,7238,22060],"class_list":{"0":"post-194023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-brandon-aubrey","9":"tag-brian-thomas-jr","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","13":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-justin-jefferson","16":"tag-kavontae-turpin","17":"tag-khalil-shakir","18":"tag-ladd-mcconkey","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nico-collins","21":"tag-puka-nacua","22":"tag-ross-matiscik","23":"tag-salary-cap","24":"tag-tom-blair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114824408526235792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}