Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\nHunter, as Filice mentioned, missed the second half of the season with a knee injury as it looked like he was about to take off on offense.<\/p>\n
Caleb Ransaw and Jalen McLeod were both sidelined for the entire season, while Wyatt Milum was injured during training camp and through the first portion of the year.<\/p>\n
Now, the Jaguars did get some positive contributions on Day 3 of the draft. Bhayshul Tuten and LeQuint Allen shared the RB2 role, while Jack Kiser and Rayuan Lane were core special teams contributors.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Jonah Monheim stepped in at center on a few occasions when needed.<\/p>\n
Undrafted rookies BJ Green and Danny Striggow also made the 53-man roster and went from only helping on special teams to filling rotational roles on defense.<\/p>\n
In terms of Year 1 from this rookie class, the Jaguars didn’t get a ton of high-end contributions. However, Jacksonville’s ability to get steady contributions from Day 3 picks and UDFAs is a good sign for the future, Gladstone said, and the strong processes that Jacksonville has in place.<\/p>\n
“At this point, there’s plenty of room for optimism,” Gladstone said of the draft class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 12, 2026, 1:25 p.m. ET Looking back at the\u00a0Jacksonville Jaguars’\u00a02025 NFL draft class, how did one analyst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7699,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,96058,95936,95924,95896,95888,95895,95899,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-748873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","13":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","14":"tag-jaguars","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","17":"tag-sstsnjaguars","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagjacksonville","20":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-taglos-angeles-rams","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116062540113974941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748873","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=748873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}