The Jacksonville Jaguars held their annual Teal and White mock recreation on the Miller Electrical Heart on Friday morning, a two-and-a-half hour padded session that served as essentially the most game-like have a look at this roster but within the 2026 preseason. The day produced some vital particular person performances, a handful of damage considerations, and a barely clearer image of the place a number of roster battles stand heading into the staff’s upcoming stretch of three joint practices.
The damage and availability image ended up being way more difficult than anticipated earlier than the primary snap was taken. Left deal with Cole Van Lanen and Garrett DiGiorgio remained on the Energetic/Bodily Unable to Carry out listing.
Head coach Liam Coen confirmed after observe that Josh Hines-Allen was restricted with routine load administration at this stage of camp moderately than something injury-related. Beginning proper guard Patrick Mekari, who has been introduced alongside slowly all through camp, didn’t take part in staff intervals, and rookie lineman Emmanuel Pregnon, who was reportedly hobbled throughout Thursday’s observe, additionally wasn’t seen early.
Essentially the most dominant particular person efficiency of your entire scrimmage belonged to B.J. Inexperienced II, and it was not significantly shut. Inexperienced opened the day with a deal with for a loss, then adopted it instantly with a sack on the very subsequent play. After Dennis Gardeck added a sack in between, Inexperienced got here again and recorded a second on the next drive. By the point the padded classes wrapped up, Inexperienced had 4 sacks and a deal with for a loss, primarily towards Jimto Obidegwu. His efficiency on Day 8 was essentially the most emphatic particular person assertion any participant in camp has made about his function on this roster.
JACKSONVILLE, FL – MAY 09: Zach Durfee #58 of the Jacksonville Jaguars goes by exercise drills throughout Rookie Mini Camp at Miller Electrical Heart on Could 9, 2026 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photograph by Don Juan Moore/Getty Photos) Getty Photos
Rookie edge Zach Durfee had a major day as effectively, beating Walker Little off the sting for a would-be sack on the very first play of the mock recreation – the play that ended Little’s participation for the afternoon. He later added a second sack towards Wyatt Milum on third down, giving him two on the day and persevering with a camp-long pattern of the seventh-round rookie from Washington making it unimaginable to miss him within the cross rush rotation. Coen lauded each younger rushers following the scrimmage:
”They’ve continued to try this all through the course of the previous few practices, and Durf had an excellent rush the opposite day, backed up. It might’ve been a 99-yard landing; it ended up being in all probability a security. So, he’s exhibiting up. B.J.‘s continued to show up in both the run and the pass. So, I’ve been happy with these guys.”
I additionally famous Dennis Gardeck with two sacks to spherical out the group, in a dominant day towards the Jaguars’ offensive line group.
OL Rotation Into Query
The beforehand talked about non-participation listing grew even bigger in Friday’s session, as Walker Little went down on the very first play of the mock recreation with out returning. Chuma Edoga, who stepped in because the swing deal with, was hobbled following his personal opening play, earlier than ultimately working his method again into the observe.
Little’s departure on the opening play represents the newest complication in what has been an unsettled state of affairs at deal with all through camp. He had been working at proper deal with whereas Anton Harrison occupied the left deal with spot, an association that has drawn main consideration over the previous week. His availability transferring ahead, and the depth questions that observe on each the left and proper aspect might turn into extra urgent. Coen confirmed that Little could be evaluated following observe, whereas offering no new updates, from the observe fields.
With Mekari, Pregnon, Little, and Edoga all both unavailable or restricted on Friday, the Jaguars labored by a number of combos alongside the entrance 5. The first look featured Anton Harrison at left deal with, Ezra Cleveland at left guard, and Robert Hainsey at heart, with Jonah Monheim at proper guard, and Wyatt Milum at proper deal with.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – AUGUST 9: Jonah Monheim #60 of the Jacksonville Jaguars walks off the sector after a NFL Preseason 2025 recreation towards the Pittsburgh Steelers at Everbank Stadium on August 9, 2025 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photograph by Logan Bowles/Getty Photos) Getty Photos
Monheim’s efficiency was an unexpectedly clear efficiency, with no clear sacks or pressures surrendered in cross safety, whereas Milum labored at each proper deal with and proper guard, experiencing a tough early stretch that included a false begin and the Durfee sack earlier than stabilizing and ending the day on a significantly stronger notice. The best guard competitors between Milum and Mekari is one to observe carefully over the approaching stretch of joint practices. Milum has earned constant first-team reps all through camp in Mekari’s absence, and the expertise he accumulates earlier than Mekari returns to full participation will carry actual weight in how that competitors in the end resolves.
Lawrence Sharp When It Counted
JACKSONVILLE, FL – AUGUST 04: Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) works on a drill throughout coaching camp on August 4, 2026 on the Miller Electrical Heart in Jacksonville, Fl. (Photograph by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos) Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos
Lawrence had a quiet opening earlier than discovering his rhythm because the session developed. He linked with Parker Washington twice throughout the third drive and was constantly correct within the intermediate vary, the 15 to 25-yard window, all through the day. The largest blemish was an early finish zone cross towards Brian Thomas Jr. that almost resulted in an interception, with cornerback Keni H Beautiful getting each palms on the ball earlier than letting it fall incomplete. Jalen Huskey was additionally within the space on that play. Liam Coen addressed the sequence after observe, describing it as a communication and timing problem between Lawrence and Thomas:
“This is the time to do it, is to challenge some of your concepts and timing. I think that he [QB Trevor Lawrence] probably wanted to getthere a little quicker when he did. So, it was one of those plays that B.T. can go to the postor he can go behind the defender and stay there. And I think it was just a little bit of amiscommunication, from that standpoint, from the leverage and technique that I think it was Keni [CB Keni-H Lovely] was playing at corner. I don’t love the long foul ball, just like toss it up and see what happens. And I don’t think that’s what it was. It was more of a miscommunication that those guys will get right.”
The opposite miss was a late observe overthrow to Jakobi Meyers on a 40-yard deep ball contained in the hashes. Lawrence bounced again on the identical drive because the missed Meyers’ goal, ending it with a back-shoulder throw to Brian Thomas Jr. within the pink zone for a landing, nevertheless.
Parker’s Down There Someplace
Washington was simply the beginning offense’s most constant playmaker on Friday. Each time the workplace wanted a play it was Washington who obtained the staff on observe. A 35-yard catch and run supplied the spark the first-team unit wanted early, discovering the spot throughout the zone.
He later capped the drive with a two-yard contested landing catch over cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, after a 15-yard reception to enter the redzone. Washington continues to point out himself as a key that opens up this offense.
The person play of the day, nevertheless, went to cornerback Buster Brown. On a Nick Mullens throw supposed for operating again J’Mari Taylor deep down the sector, Brown saved his eyes on the backup quarterback, then climbed the ladder in protection, coming away with the athletic interception.
The battle for the third security place, a crucial function in Campanile’s three-safety (big-nickel) defensive packages, stays genuinely open. Second 12 months security Rayuan Lane tightly lined tight finish Tanner Koziol with a number of high quality reps in redzone. Caleb Ransaw turned in a pair of bodily run stops throughout the pink zone interval. Jalen Huskey continued to work into the rotation, forcing an incompletion, which was almost a fumble pressured.
All three gamers are making credible instances, and the competitors heading into joint practices is as unsettled because it has been all camp.
Fourth-year cornerback Christian Braswell has been energetic over the previous few practices after restricted early camp participation. Second 12 months, UDFA cornerback Jabbar Muhammad’s day was a combined one: a number of aggressive reps on the day, forcing an incompletion, whereas additionally giving up a two-yard landing to Parker Washington. Muhammad has made sufficient performs all through camp to remain within the dialog, and the way his particular groups contributions weigh towards Braswell’s general worth shall be one of many extra fascinating ultimate roster selections the group faces.
Display screen Recreation Nonetheless In Progress
Whereas Liam Coen acknowledged, following the scrimmage, that he was happy with the trouble and physicality his staff confirmed on Friday, he acknowledged one particular space of emphasis heading into joint practices, display screen execution, nonetheless wants extra work. A number of operating again screens within the observe have been blown up, incomplete, or went for minimal acquire – a rollover problem from the 2025 season.
The staff heads to New Orleans for a joint observe with the Saints on August 13 earlier than their preseason opener every week from Saturday. Jaguars followers in attendance, tell us your observations (or your questions) on Friday’s scrimmage within the feedback beneath!
