{"id":766002,"date":"2026-02-21T04:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:11:23","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-re-sign-free-agent-cornerback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766002\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars re-sign free agent cornerback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> announced on Friday that they re-signed free agent cornerback Keith Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taylor was a restricted free agent<\/a> this offseason.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars<\/a> brought Taylor in late in the season to bolster the cornerback depth after Jourdan Lewis was placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

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Taylor was a fifth-round draft pick in 2021 by the\u00a0Carolina Panthers<\/a>. Over his career, Taylor has appeared in\u00a047 games<\/a>\u00a0and made five starts. He most recently played with Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Taylor has played 970 defensive snaps, over 800 of which came during the 2021 and 2022 seasons.<\/p>\n

Over his career, he has totaled 77 tackles, allowed a completion rate of\u00a074% on 84 targets<\/a>\u00a0at 14.1 yards per catch with four pass breakups.<\/p>\n

Taylor has played 529 special teams snaps as well.<\/p>\n

Taylor did not appear on defense with the Jaguars, but played three special teams snaps in the AFC wildcard round matchup with Buffalo.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the week, the Jaguars also announced that they re-signed <\/a>DeeJay Dallas and Matt Dickerson.<\/p>\n

Cornerback is a position that the Jaguars will have to further address<\/a> this offseason with Greg Newsome and Montaric Brown both unrestricted free agents. Travis Hunter <\/a>will reportedly be playing cornerback full-time this season for the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jaguars roster moves: Free agent cornerback Keith Taylor re-signed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars announced on Friday that they re-signed free agent cornerback Keith Taylor. Taylor was a restricted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[223,3334,20311,7,194,7987,212,125,2401,213,1120,12715,27088,5926,6,128],"class_list":["post-766002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-atlanta","tag-cornerback","tag-deejay-dallas","tag-football","tag-free-agent","tag-greg-newsome","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-jourdan-lewis","tag-keith-taylor","tag-matt-dickerson","tag-montaric-brown","tag-nfl","tag-travis-hunter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116106670138691064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766002","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=766002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}