{"id":679303,"date":"2026-01-15T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/679303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:25:15","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-top-priorities-over-2026-nfl-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/679303\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars top priorities over 2026 NFL offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heading into the 2026 NFL offseason, what are the top two priorities for the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>?<\/p>\n

ESPN recently answered <\/a>that question for each team that has been eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n

At the top of the list for the Jaguars<\/a> is figuring out how they’ll use Travis Hunter in 2026.<\/p>\n

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GM James Gladstone seemed to already provide that answer on Wednesday, however, stating that Hunter will continue to play both ways.<\/a> With that said, given the current state of the cornerback and wide receiver depth charts, there could be more opportunities this season on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n

So what is Jacksonville’s second offseason priority?<\/p>\n

Michael DiRocco selected adding to the defensive line.<\/p>\n

“The Jaguars could benefit from another edge rusher to complement\u00a0Josh Hines-Allen<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Travon Walker<\/a>,” DiRocco wrote. “It wouldn’t hurt to address defensive tackle, either, to improve the rotation.”<\/p>\n

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The Jaguars had the best run defense in football, and as the year went on, the pass rush found more consistency. Gladstone pointed out<\/a> that there was an “uptick” in that regard by season’s end.<\/p>\n

However, to DiRocco’s point, bolstering the defensive end rotation behind Hines-Allen and Walker should be on the to-do list. The defensive tackle position, in terms of getting after the quarterback, also went relatively quiet down the stretch.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Top 2 items on Jacksonville Jaguars’ offseason to-do list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into the 2026 NFL offseason, what are the top two priorities for the Jacksonville Jaguars? ESPN recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,1302,1829,36984,6,128,1827],"class_list":{"0":"post-679303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-james-gladstone","14":"tag-josh-hines-allen","15":"tag-michael-dirocco","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-travis-hunter","18":"tag-travon-walker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115899342745761251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679303","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=679303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}