{"id":966462,"date":"2026-08-07T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/966462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:30:39","slug":"jaguars-jahlani-tavai-inks-deal-with-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/966462\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Jahlani Tavai: Inks deal with Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tavai and the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars<\/a> agreed on a contract Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tavai will join Jacksonville at training camp after spending the last five months as a free agent following his release from the Patriots in March with a failed physical. The linebacker appears to have moved past his undisclosed injury, and he will now look to compete for a spot on the Jaguars&#8217; 53-man roster in 2026. Tavai recorded 42 total tackles (21 solo) and a forced fumble while splitting his time between the defense and special-teams unit over 12 regular-season contests with New England in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavai and the Jaguars agreed on a contract Thursday. Tavai will join Jacksonville at training camp after spending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[1999,7,212,125,2401,213,6304,6],"class_list":["post-966462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-fantasy-football","tag-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-jahlani-tavai","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117052822214088640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966462","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=966462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}