{"id":749492,"date":"2026-02-13T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:00:17","slug":"jaguars-predicted-to-make-free-agent-signing-familiar-with-liam-coen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749492\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars predicted to make free agent signing familiar with Liam Coen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> are predicted to sign a familiar face for head coach Liam Coen in free agency.<\/p>\n

Greg Auman of FOX Sports<\/a> recently compiled his list of the top 100 NFL free agents and then predicted where each would sign.<\/p>\n

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To see where the Jaguars<\/a>‘ top free agents were predicted to end up, you can find that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there was also one non-Jaguars player that Auman predicted to sign with Jacksonville this offseason — tight end Cade Otton.<\/p>\n

“The Bucs<\/a> have precious little else at the position, so if they let him walk rather than pay $8 million a year or more, they’d have to invest in a proper replacement, either in free agency with limited options or in the draft. Jacksonville?” Auman wrote. “A Liam Coen reunion might make sense.”<\/p>\n

Coen was Otton’s offensive coordinator in Tampa Bay for the 2024 season. During his career with the Bucs, Otton has been a consistent presence within that offense, which includes having 80-plus targets in each of the last three seasons and totaling at least 570 receiving yards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tight end is a sneaky need for the Jaguars. Quintin Morris is a free agent, while Johnny Mundt and Hunter Long are each in the final year of their rookie deals.<\/p>\n

However, while signing Otton would be a fun addition on paper, this doesn’t seem like a move the Jaguars would make. Otton is someone who will play a fairly prominent role in an offense, and the Jaguars already have Brenton Strange on the roster.<\/p>\n

Coen likes to utilize two tight-end sets, but there aren’t enough snaps to go around for both Strange and Otton. The Jaguars — as they should — remain committed to Strange<\/a> and what he can provide this offense with his do-it-all skill set.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: NFL free agency predictions: Jaguars, Liam Coen add familiar face<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars are predicted to sign a familiar face for head coach Liam Coen in free agency.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[5929,9341,7,4609,194,13958,123,212,125,2401,213,5420,1642,6,4910,17026,38172],"class_list":["post-749492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-brenton-strange","tag-cade-otton","tag-football","tag-free-agency","tag-free-agent","tag-greg-auman","tag-hunter","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-johnny-mundt","tag-liam-coen","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agents","tag-quintin-morris","tag-top-free-agents"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116063923521761016","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749492","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=749492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}