{"id":261771,"date":"2025-08-04T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261771\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:11:12","slug":"how-james-gladstones-time-with-rams-may-have-influenced-this-jaguars-free-agent-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/261771\/","title":{"rendered":"How James Gladstone’s time with Rams may have influenced this Jaguars free agent signing"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> big offseason additions was the signing of free agent cornerback Jourdan Lewis–a move made by GM James Gladstone that may have been influenced by his time with the LA Rams.<\/p>\n

ESPN NFL insider Dan Graziano<\/a> recently spent a day at Jaguars<\/a>‘ training camp. In his notebook, one of the nuggets of information that Graziano shared was that while Gladstone was in LA, the Rams were very interested in Lewis.<\/p>\n

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“The addition<\/a> of former Cowboy Jourdan Lewis<\/a> in free agency was a big one for former Rams exec Gladstone, who said L.A. tried to get him several times over the years because Sean McVay always said he was especially tough to game-plan against,” Graziano wrote. “The Jags believe Lewis is already having an impact as a leader in that room.”<\/p>\n

As Graziano notes, Lewis is already making an impact on the secondary as a leader, while on the field, he’s been steadily making plays throughout training camp, providing some needed stability to a secondary unit that struggled mightily in 2024.<\/p>\n

Lewis was one of the better slot defenders in football last season, ranking eighth in yards per snap allowed, seventh in snaps per target, and eighth in snaps per reception, according to PFF.<\/a><\/p>\n

“He’s been a heck of a vet,” Tyson Campbell said of Lewis<\/a>. “A guy that’s played in this league for a long time and has been successful. So just picking his brain, a fun guy to be around, a great personality, bringing a lot of energy each and every day.”<\/p>\n

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The Jaguars signed Lewis to a three-year, $30 million<\/a> contract. At the time, this deal made Lewis the highest-paid slot cornerback in the NFL.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Gladstone’s time with Rams influenced Jaguars’ Jourdan Lewis signing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Jacksonville Jaguars’ big offseason additions was the signing of free agent cornerback Jourdan Lewis–a move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[4153,7,194,212,125,2401,213,1302,1120,4099,6,7872],"class_list":{"0":"post-261771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-dan-graziano","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-free-agent","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","13":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-james-gladstone","16":"tag-jourdan-lewis","17":"tag-la-rams","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-tyson-campbell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114972084446298413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261771","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=261771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}