{"id":713033,"date":"2026-01-29T03:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713033\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:37:13","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-make-changes-to-2026-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713033\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars make changes to 2026 coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 28, 2026, 3:45 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> announced two additions to the coaching staff on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mathieu Araujo will take over as the defensive pass game coordinator, and Brian Picucci will be the run game coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The addition of Araujo comes after 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> moved on from secondary coach Ron Milus at the end of the 2025 season. Picucci joins the staff after assistant offensive line coach and run game specialist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2026\/01\/17\/jaguars-coach-reportedly-taking-job-stanford\/88239070007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keli&#8217;i Kekuewa was hired<\/a>\u00a0by Stanford University to be their offensive line coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Araujo was the Miami assistant defensive backs coach from 2022-2023 and was then promoted to cornerbacks coach in 2024, a title he held for the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Araujo did interview with the New York Jets for their defensive coordinator opening this hiring cycle.<\/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\">In 2024, the Miami pass defense\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamrankings.com\/nfl\/stat\/opponent-yards-per-pass-attempt?date=2025-02-10\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked third<\/a>\u00a0in yards per pass attempt allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Picucci and head coach Liam Coen worked together at Tampa Bay during the 2024 season when Coen was the offensive coordinator there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The two were also on the same coaching staff at Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During their 2024 season together, the Bucs had one of the best rushing offenses in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This announcement comes after the <a href=\"http:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2026\/01\/27\/jacksonville-jaguars-announced-important-coaching-staff-news\/88383477007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars were able to retain<\/a> Grant Udinski and Anthony Campanile as their offensive and defensive coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 28, 2026, 3:45 p.m. ET The Jacksonville Jaguars announced two additions to the coaching staff on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95936,95935,95896,95888,95895,95906,95884,95883,96241,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-713033","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-tagliam-coen","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagstanford-university","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115976302997276904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713033","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=713033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}