{"id":727858,"date":"2026-02-04T03:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/727858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:42:16","slug":"what-jacksonville-jaguars-must-accomplish-during-2026-nfl-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/727858\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jacksonville Jaguars must accomplish during 2026 NFL offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 3, 2026, 7:56 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

NFL.com analyst\u00a0Kevin Patra<\/a>\u00a0has a piece of advice for the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> this offseason: re-sign or replace linebacker Devin Lloyd.<\/p>\n

“The Jags seem unlikely to use the franchise tag on Lloyd (projected at $28.2 million<\/a>, per Over The Cap),” wrote Patra. “If he prices himself out of Jacksonville, there will be a gaping hole in the middle of Campanile\u2019s D that needs to be filled.”<\/p>\n

Lloyd did a bit of everything for the Jaguars<\/a>‘ defense this past season and brought a high-impact presence. When he missed time briefly with an injury during the middle portion of the season, his absence was noticeable.<\/p>\n

Lloyd finished the season totaling 25 pressures as a blitzer during the regular season, and ranked 11th among linebackers in\u00a0PFF’s run defense grade.<\/a>\u00a0In coverage, he recorded five interceptions and two pass breakups.<\/p>\n

As Patra pointed out, the franchise tag won’t be an option<\/a> at that amount. As a free agent, Lloyd is going to garner interest from a number of teams. Spotrac<\/a> is projecting that he earns a three-year deal worth $60.4 million.<\/p>\n

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For a Jaguars team that’s a bit short on cap space currently and has other needs to address — like the defensive line and cornerback — does Jacksonville have the flexibility to bring Lloyd back at that amount?<\/p>\n

If Lloyd doesn’t return, there will certainly be a void to fill in the middle of the Jaguars’ defense and no obvious fill-in next to Foye Oluokun.<\/p>\n

Current on the roster options to potentially take over for Lloyd include Ventrell Miller, Jack Kiser, Yasir Abdullah, and Jalen McLeod.<\/p>\n

Addressing this position early on in the draft could be a real possibility for Jacksonville. Anthony Campanile’s defensive scheme and his coaching background at the linebacker position may have to be tasked with elevating this unit as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 3, 2026, 7:56 p.m. ET NFL.com analyst\u00a0Kevin Patra\u00a0has a piece of advice for the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars this offseason:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7699,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,96041,96310,96058,95936,95896,95888,95895,95899,95883,100283,103413,95881],"class_list":["post-727858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-accessfree","tag-fl","tag-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagdevin-lloyd","tag-tagfoyesade-oluokun","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagventrell-miller","tag-tagyasir-abdullah","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116010296629278354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727858","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=727858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}