JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The ’25 postseason is in the rearview \u2013 for the Jaguars and the rest of the NFL.<\/p>\n
On to the 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n
For the Jaguars, that means decisions on pending unrestricted free agents \u2013 and on whether to use the NFL’s franchise\/transition tag. That’s all ahead of the opening of the 2026 NFL League Year in a month \u2013 and the 2026 NFL Draft in late April.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars must negotiate an important offseason with an eye on improving a team that finished 13-4 and won the AFC South Championship in the first season under Head Coach Liam Coen<\/a>, General Manager James Gladstone<\/a> and Executive Vice President of Football Operations Tony Boselli<\/a>.<\/p>\n Up first: Next week’s opening of the “tag” window, with teams having from February 17 through March 3 to apply the NFL’s franchise or transition tag \u2013 league mechanisms designed to allow teams to retain players scheduled to become unrestricted free agents.<\/p>\n Teams can place a franchise or transition tag on one player per offseason, after which the player may play the season on a one-year contract for the value of the tag or negotiate a long-term extension with the team.<\/p>\n Next after that: The March 11 start of the NFL League Year, with teams able to officially execute trades and sign unrestricted free agents from other teams beginning at 4 p.m. that day. Teams can negotiate with unrestricted free agents from others teams from March 9-11, a period sometimes called the “legal tampering” period.<\/p>\n \n Here are the Jaguars’ 2026 free agents:<\/p>\n \n Unrestricted free agents (UFAs):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 The ’25 postseason is in the rearview \u2013 for the Jaguars and the rest of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,130,212,125,2401,213,1302,134,1642,131,133,6,1918,5258,6520],"class_list":{"0":"post-748423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-front-page-headline","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-james-gladstone","15":"tag-john-oehser","16":"tag-liam-coen","17":"tag-news-front-page-headline","18":"tag-news-jaguars-news","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-sponsor-dream-finders-homes","21":"tag-sponsors-dream-finders","22":"tag-tony-boselli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116061410794482299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748423","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=748423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}