{"id":716730,"date":"2026-01-30T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:46:14","slug":"nfl-analyst-selects-jaguars-best-free-agent-signing-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716730\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL analyst selects Jaguars ‘best’ free agent signing in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what was a busy 2025 offseason for James Gladstone, what was the Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> best free agent signing last March?<\/p>\n

Bradley Locker of Pro Football Focus<\/a> recently set out to answer that question for each NFL team. When it came to the Jaguars<\/a>, he selected cornerback Jourdan Lewis.<\/p>\n

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“The ex-Cowboy earned a 69.0 PFF coverage grade before having his impressive season cut short in Week 16,” Locker wrote. “Moreover, Lewis\u2019 0.96 yards per snap was the fifth-lowest mark among qualified slot corners, proving he was well worth his $30 million pact.”<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Lewis’ season was ended early due to a foot injury he sustained in Week 16. But before then, he held opponents to just 7.6 yards per catch while recording two interceptions and four pass breakups.<\/p>\n

What can go unnoticed as well is Lewis’ ability as a communicator pre-snap, calling out adjustments and ensuring that the other second and third level defenders know their responsibilities on a given play.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, upon arriving in Jacksonville, Lewis quickly emerged as one of the leaders of this Jaguars team.<\/p>\n

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Adding Lewis to the secondary and this team as a whole proved to be quite valuable for the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Who was Jacksonville Jaguars best free agent signing in 2025?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what was a busy 2025 offseason for James Gladstone, what was the Jacksonville Jaguars’ best free agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[10051,7,212,125,2401,213,1302,1120,6,410],"class_list":{"0":"post-716730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-bradley-locker","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-james-gladstone","15":"tag-jourdan-lewis","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-pro-football-focus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115984596410182654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716730","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=716730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}