{"id":716810,"date":"2026-01-30T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:30:13","slug":"who-was-jacksonville-jaguars-best-free-agent-signing-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716810\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Jacksonville Jaguars best free agent signing in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 30, 2026, 8:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In what was a busy 2025 offseason for James Gladstone, what was the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217;<\/a> best free agent signing last March?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bradley Locker of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/every-nfl-teams-best-and-worst-free-agent-signing-from-2025#JAX\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Focus<\/a> recently set out to answer that question for each NFL team. When it came to 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>, he selected cornerback Jourdan Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The ex-Cowboy earned a 69.0 PFF coverage grade before having his impressive season cut short in Week 16,&#8221; Locker wrote. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Unfortunately, Lewis&#8217; 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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What can go unnoticed as well is Lewis&#8217; 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<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 addition to that, upon arriving in Jacksonville, Lewis quickly emerged as one of the leaders of this Jaguars team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Adding Lewis to the secondary and this team as a whole proved to be quite valuable for the Jaguars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 30, 2026, 8:01 a.m. ET In what was a busy 2025 offseason for James Gladstone, what was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,95936,97225,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-716810","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-tagjourdan-lewis","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115984769032355078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716810","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=716810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}