The Jaguars and James Gladstone were fairly reserved in free agency, seemingly more interested in trying to sign the right guys rather than the expensive ones. Gladstone made a point to add to the offensive line, weapons for Trevor Lawrence, and to the porous secondary of 2024.<\/p>\n
Early returns are quite promising While the Jaguars have already played one game, the new pieces were instrumental in defeating the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n
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The new and (hopefully) improved Jaguars\u2019 offensive line was dominant against the Panthers.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION SPORTS JAX 24\/7 LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The unit allowed the NFL\u2019s lowest pressure rate in week one (18.2%), zero sacks and did their part in leading the Jaguars to 200 yards rushing on the day.<\/p>\n Free agent signings Robert Hainsey and Patrick Mekari have gotten off to a fast start in Jacksonville. According to Pro Football Focus, the duo allowed zero pressures, zero sacks.<\/p>\n Much of Travis Etiene\u2019s success came from inside runs as well.<\/p>\n At receiver, Dyami Brown showed out in his first game in teal. Liam Coen showed a lot of trust, giving Brown the ball on an early fourth down call. In many ways, the season was on the line right there. Brown rushed for six yards on two carries and led Jaguars\u2019 wide receivers with 52 yards on three grabs.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n On the back end of the defense, newcomers Jourdan Lewis and Eric Murray already have made their statements. Lewis made an exceptional pass breakup early in the game and sealed the win with a game-ending interception. Eric Murray forced two pass breakups as well, including the key deflection hauled in by Foye Oluokun to put the Jaguars\u2019 offense in plus territory.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still obviously a lot of football to be played, but it\u2019s undeniable how big of an impact this year\u2019s free agent class has already had. Without them, it likely would have been a very different game. Gladstone and Liam Coen have to be thrilled.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD:\u00a0Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP:\u00a0Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a>\u00a0to download the free Action News Jax apps,\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a>\u00a0to stream Action Sports Jax 24\/7 live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars and James Gladstone were fairly reserved in free agency, seemingly more interested in trying to sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[260,4894,5415,7,8947,4609,212,125,2401,213,1302,1120,1642,6,1482,5417,410,5418,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-354241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-dyami-brown","10":"tag-eric-murray","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-foye-oluokun","13":"tag-free-agency","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","16":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","17":"tag-jaguars","18":"tag-james-gladstone","19":"tag-jourdan-lewis","20":"tag-liam-coen","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-offensive-line","23":"tag-patrick-mekari","24":"tag-pro-football-focus","25":"tag-robert-hainsey","26":"tag-trevor-lawrence"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115174464963944713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354241","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=354241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}