{"id":676023,"date":"2026-01-14T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/676023\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:20:13","slug":"jaguars-de-danny-striggow-among-highest-rated-udfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/676023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; DE Danny Striggow among highest rated UDFAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217;<\/a> defensive end Danny Striggow was one of PFF&#8217;s highest graded undrafted rookies during the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/nfl-highest-graded-undrafted-free-agents-2025-nfl-regular-season?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On PFF&#8217;s rankings<\/a>, Striggow received the third-highest grade among all UDFAs with at least 75 non-special teams snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;His 69.0 PFF run-defense grade ranked third among rookies who logged at least 100 snaps during the regular season \u2014 ahead of first-rounders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/Mykel-Williams\/157061\/draft-profile?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Mykel Williams<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/Abdul-Carter\/164160\/draft-profile?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Abdul Carter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/James-Pearce-Jr.\/163770\/draft-profile?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">James Pearce Jr.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/nfl\/players\/Shemar-Stewart\/158675\/draft-profile?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Shemar Stewart<\/a>,&#8221; wrote PFF&#8217;s Ben Cooper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As a pass rusher, Striggow finished the year with seven quarterback pressures and a sack. Among all defensive ends, Striggow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked 54th<\/a> in overall grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Striggow went undrafted last April out of Minnesota and signed with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jaguars<\/a>. After spending offseason programs and training camp with Jacksonville, he would make the team&#8217;s 53-man roster heading into the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Striggow was inactive early on in the year before earning some opportunities on special teams. As the season progressed, Striggow saw more snaps on defense, and by season&#8217;s end, he was a regular member of the defensive end rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 13, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; defensive end Danny Striggow was one of PFF&#8217;s highest graded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95936,95896,95888,95895,95906,95902,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-676023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","19":"tag-tagnational-sports","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115892245247015270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676023","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=676023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}