{"id":781904,"date":"2026-02-28T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781904\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:54:24","slug":"keith-abney-discusses-jacksonville-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781904\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Abney discusses Jacksonville Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 27, 2026, 10:26 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Needing to address the cornerback position, Arizona State&#8217;s Keith Abney said he met with the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> at the 2026 NFL combine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I had an interview with them last night,&#8221; Abney told Sports Illustrated. &#8220;A great interview. Went well. Definitely interested in them. They&#8217;re interested in me. I think it could fit well. They got a new coaching staff, I believe and just interested in any team that&#8217;s interested in me. I think it would go well though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Abney is listed at 6-0, 190 pounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to PFF<\/a>, and has started the last two seasons, with most of his snaps coming at outside cornerback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Over his career, he&#8217;s allowed a completion rate of just 51% and has held opponents to 11.1 yards per catch. He has very good ball production with five interceptions and 17 pass breakups over the last two years, along with being a sound tackler.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_hCk8szSwE&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Jaguars Prospect and Arizona State DB Keith Abney II from the NFL Combine\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2_hCk8szSwE\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;What I do best, I play hard,&#8221; Abney said. &#8220;I give great effort, and I do a good job of eliminating receivers, just taking them out of their game. I tackle really well. I feel like I got a lot of things that I can do on the field that a lot of corners probably can&#8217;t do and my instincts is something I&#8217;m good at.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Something that I can probably get better at, being a little grabby. Got the penalties, but definitely just something I&#8217;m working on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As of now, the starting outside position opposite of Travis Hunter is available with Montaric Brown and Greg Newsome both free agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Also, adding competition throughout the back end of the depth chart could be on James Gladstone&#8217;s to-do list as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 27, 2026, 10:26 a.m. ET Needing to address the cornerback position, Arizona State&#8217;s Keith Abney said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,96044,95936,98255,95896,95888,95906,96716,95883,98258,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-781904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-taggreg-newsome-ii","19":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","20":"tag-tagmontaric-brown","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsports-illustrated","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtravis-hunter","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781904","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=781904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}