Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Liam Coen
Offensive Coordinator: Grant Udinski
Defensive Coordinator: Anthony Campanile
Special Teams Coordinator: Heath Farwell
2025 Summary (W-L Record: 13-4)
The Jaguars were one of the most surprising teams in the NFL last season. Liam Coen joined Dan Campbell in proving that introductory press conferences have nothing to do with your ability to coach as Jacksonville won 9 more games than the year before on their way to the AFC South division title.
It’s hard to say where the largest turnarounds were from the year before because there were so many on both sides of the ball.
The offense went from 26th in the NFL in scoring to 6th. The defense went from 27th in points allowed to 8th.
Most notable was Jacksonville’s ability to stop the run and generate turnovers. The Jaguars had the #1 run defense in the NFL last season after ranking 25th the year before, and they generated the 2nd-most takeaways in the NFL just one year after creating the fewest.
New defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile had a tremendous season in his first stint as a DC in the NFL, which should give other teams hope about their first-time OC’s and DC’s.
Last year, no one knew quite what to expect, but here’s what I wrote in my Jaguars 2025 preview:
It’s difficult to know for sure what defense he plans on playing exactly, but he’s been exposed to some of the best in recent seasons.
He was the linebackers coach for the Dolphins from 2020-23. During that time, he worked under Brian Flores, who likes to do some crazy sh*t, and Vic Fangio, whose scheme many believe is the answer to the modern passing game.
Then last year, he was the Packers linebackers coach under Jeff Hafley, whose use of disguise and simulated pressures turned the Packers into a ball-hawking defense that was one of the best in the league.
Campanile appears equipped to bring a modern-day defense to Jacksonville. That, in of itself, could help turn the Jaguars around on this side of the ball.
I think that’s a relatively accurate description of what ended up happening last season as Campanile seemed to mix in a little bit of everything.
The Jaguars ranked 9th in split safety looks according to Cody Alexander of MatchQuarters. That’s the Fangio influence.
They ranked 5th in cover-2 usage, 13th in cover-0 usage, and 5th in 6-man pressures. (The Flores influence).
They ranked 12th in sim pressure percentage (the Hafley influence).
This is not a humble brag to say I made a somewhat accurate prediction last year, by the way (I’ve been wrong plenty of times before, for the record). But coaches coach what they know and what they’ve experienced. My hunch last year was that he would lean on the schemes of the systems he’d been exposed to prior to joining the Jaguars. Surprise surprise, that’s what he did.
Key Additions
RB Ameer Abdullah
RB Chris Rodriguez
TE Nate Boerkircher (2nd Rd, 56th Overall)
TE Tanner Koziol (5th Rd, 164th Overall)
OG Emmanuel Pregnon (3rd Rd, 88th Overall)
DL Ruke Orhorhoro
DL Albert Regis (3rd Rd, 81st Overall)
EDGE Wesley Williams (4th Rd, 119th Overall)
S Jalen Huskey (3rd Rd, 100th Overall)
Key Losses
RB Travis Etienne
WR Dyami Brown
WR Tim Patrick
TE Johnny Mundt
DL Maason Smith
DL Austin Johnson
EDGE Dawuane Smoot
EDGE Emmanuel Ogbah
LB Devin Lloyd
CB Greg Newsome II
S Andrew Wingard
Biggest Questions Entering 2026
Can Trevor Lawrence finally put it together multiple seasons in a row?
There is no question that Trevor Lawrence played the quarterback position better last year than he has at any point in his NFL career.
It culminated in the final 6 games of the season where he completed 63% of his passes for 1,600 yards (8.3 yards per attempt), with 15 TD passes, just 1 interception, and a 113.2 passer rating. He also ran for 149 yards and 4 touchdowns during that span.
The Jags won all 6 of those games. They’d win their final 8 on their way to a 13-4 record and the AFC South division title.
But one of the biggest reasons for Lawrence’s success was that Liam Coen did a great job of putting him in position to succeed. He gave him all the answers to the test and created tons of clearly-defined reads. It seemed like Lawrence had somewhere to go with the ball when he hit his back foot just about every time he dropped back.
Jacksonville’s Week 16 win over the Broncos in Denver was the peak of the Coen-Lawrence marriage. You can check out that breakdown here:
The Jacksonville Jaguars???!!!
You don’t just walk into Denver and drop 34 points on one of the best defenses in the NFL by accident. Liam Coen and the Jaguars had a great plan for attacking the Broncos, and that led to a huge win in front of a stunned Mile-High crowd.
While we have probably never seen Lawrence perform at as high of a level as he did last year under Coen, we have seem him play very well at different times throughout his career. He’s never really been able to do it over long stretches (or consecutive seasons), though.
So have things really changed for the Jaguars’ franchise quarterback? We’ll find out in 2026.
Where is Travis Hunter going to play?
One of the reasons the Jaguars traded up to draft Travis Hunter last year is because he’s conceivably equivalent to having two players, a receiver and a cornerback. No one has played both ways consistently in the NFL for a long time, and Jacksonville figured they had someone special in Hunter. Perhaps the Shohei Ohtani of the NFL.