Jacksonville Jaguars · 2026 Draft · (no R1 pick) · (13-4)

Actual Pick: Nate Boerkircher (, ) BONEHEADED Buy Jersey

Boneheaded. Jacksonville reaching for Nebraska tight end Nate Boerkircher in Round 2 is the kind of pick that gets a scouting director's badge revoked, especially with Chris Johnson, Quinyon Mitchell-archetype corners, and a pile of starting-caliber safeties still on the board. Boerkircher graded as a priority free agent on virtually every public board, and burning a 56th overall selection on a TE3 blocker behind Brenton Strange and Johnny Mundt is malpractice when the secondary still has Tyson Campbell on an island. The fit is borderline incoherent. Jacksonville's most glaring hole is corner opposite Campbell after the Darious Williams swap rumors and Montaric Brown's regression, with safety and interior O-line right behind it. Boerkircher is a 6'5" in-line blocker with 4.78 wheels and 12 career receptions at Nebraska — he's a phone-booth TE2 on a roster that already paid Strange and re-signed Mundt. Liam Coen's offense runs 12-personnel, but you don't spend Day 2 capital on a glorified sixth lineman. No trade reported — this is straight rookie-contract value at slot 56, roughly $7.4M over four years, and Jacksonville torched it. Sitting on the board: Princely Umanmielen (Edge), Cobie Durant-style nickel Jaylin Smith, Malaki Starks insurance Jonas Sanker, and our CB2 projection Chris Johnson, who profiles as a plug-and-play press corner. Even staying TE-greedy, Harold Fannin Jr. and Gunnar Helm offered actual receiving juice. The opportunity cost here is a Week 1 starter at a premium position. On our board Boerkircher wasn't in the top 145 — call it a PFA/UDFA grade, meaning Jacksonville reached roughly 90-plus slots and three full rounds. Daniel Jeremiah didn't rank him, PFF had him as their TE19, and Kiper left him off his top 300. Chris Johnson sat at our CB-range for this slot as a clean market-rate selection. This is the single largest board-vs-pick delta of Jacksonville's night and one of the worst value calls of Round 2 leaguewide. The pick screams "we had a guy and panicked he wouldn't make it to 88," which is exactly how James Gladstone's first draft as GM should not begin. Jacksonville needed to walk out of Round 2 with a corner or a guard starting opposite Trevor Lawrence's blindside, and instead they added a blocking tight end. They must double-dip corner in Round 3 — Johnson if he somehow falls, otherwise Zy Alexander — or this front office's evaluation process is already a problem. Trust: not earned.

Why different: We projected a premium-position corner to address the Campbell-opposite hole; Jacksonville instead reached three rounds early for a blocking tight end behind two established options.

Actual Pick: Albert Regis (, ) REACH Buy Jersey

Reach. Albert Regis at 81 overall is a head-scratcher when Jacksonville's secondary remains a sieve and Trevor Lawrence is still being hit on first read. Regis is a 6-foot-1, 300-plus-pound interior plugger from Texas A&M with limited pass-rush juice, projected by most boards as a Day 3 rotational nose tackle — not a top-100 talent. Taking him here over remaining corners and edges actively widens the gap between Jacksonville's ambitions and its trenches. The fit is defensible in a vacuum because new defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile wants two-gap bodies who can absorb double-teams, and Regis profiles as a true 0-tech behind DaVon Hamilton. But the priority list above literally reads CB, S, OL, LB, Edge — interior defensive tackle isn't even top five. With Tyson Campbell coming off injury and Andre Cisco gone, leaving corners like Quinyon Mitchell's late-falling tape-mates on the board for a backup nose is malpractice in roster construction. Jacksonville sent pick 88 and a 2027 fifth to Detroit to climb seven spots for Regis, per the trade context — that's a premium for a player virtually every analyst had with a fifth-round grade. You don't trade up for nose tackles, period. Junior Colson, Tyler Nubin, Cooper DeJean tier defenders, or even guard Christian Mahogany would have been rational targets at 81. The opportunity cost here is enormous; this is the kind of move that ages into a cautionary slide. Our board didn't have Regis in the top 145 — that's a 40-plus pick reach by conservative math, and Dane Brugler's Beast had him in the 180s as DT19. Jeremiah didn't rank him at all in his top 150. PFF graded him a sixth-round developmental run-defender with a sub-10 percent pressure rate. Calling this market-rate requires ignoring every public board; it's a reach by every reasonable measurement, full stop. Strategically, this screams that Trent Baalke is once again drafting his guys over consensus, and the Doug Pederson seat just got hotter because the roster around Lawrence isn't getting fixed. Jacksonville needs to spend picks 96 and 114 on a corner and a tackle immediately or this class collapses into irrelevance. The front office did not earn trust tonight — they reinforced every concern about process discipline that has dogged this regime since the Travon Walker debate.

Actual Pick: Emmanuel Pregnon (IOL, Oregon) REACH Buy Jersey

Reach. Pregnon at 88 is a value misfire when Jacksonville's secondary is bleeding — taking a one-year USC-to-Oregon guard transfer with stiff lateral mobility ahead of cornerback help feels like Trent Baalke's worst instincts resurfacing. Pregnon is a phone-booth mauler with heavy hands, but his pass-pro reps against Pac-12 speed got exposed, and the Jaguars already invested in Ezra Cleveland and Mitch Morse interior money. This is need-blind board-following at its most stubborn. The fit is awkward at best. Jacksonville's stated priorities — corner, safety, and offensive line — had OL third for a reason, with Anton Harrison and Walker Little flanking a serviceable interior. Pregnon profiles as a pure left guard with limited center flex, which means he's competing with Ben Bartch for snaps rather than filling a vacuum. His run-blocking grit suits Press Taylor's gap-scheme leanings, but you don't burn premium capital on a redundancy when Tyson Campbell needs a corner opposite him yesterday. This wasn't a traded slot, so the conversation is opportunity cost — and the opportunity cost here is brutal. Cornerbacks like Kris Abrams-Draine and Cam Hart were on the board, both rated comfortably inside the top 90 by most public boards. Even sticking to trenches, Brandon Dorlus or Marshawn Kneeland offered Edge juice at a position the Jags officially listed as a need. Rookie-deal value at 88 is real, but only if the player cracks the rotation — Pregnon may not. Our board had Pregnon comfortably in the R4-R5 range, with PFF slotting him 142nd overall and Jeremiah leaving him off the top-150 entirely. Going at 88 is roughly a full-round reach, and the position-rank story is uglier — he was the IOL6 or IOL7 on most lists, behind names like Tanor Bortolini and Dominick Puni who were still available. This is a market-rate Day 3 player taken at a Day 2 premium, full stop. The pick screams that Baalke is still drafting his comfort traits — size, toughness, SEC/Pac-12 pedigree — over actual roster construction logic. The corner room is one Campbell tweak away from disaster, and Jacksonville just punted the cleanest chance to address it. They need to come back in Round 4 with a corner-safety double-dip and stop pretending Darnell Savage solved the back end. Tonight, the front office did not earn trust — they reinforced every concern about their process.

Actual Pick: Jalen Huskey (, ) BONEHEADED Buy Jersey

Boneheaded. Jacksonville reaching for Jalen Huskey at 100 when he wasn't sniffing any credible top-145 board is the kind of pick that gets a scouting director fired by Thanksgiving. The Jaguars left genuine Day 2 talent on the table at premium need positions, ignored a cornerback room that got torched weekly last season, and convinced themselves their grade trumped consensus. When five different services don't have a player ranked, that's not contrarian conviction — that's malpractice dressed up as boldness. Huskey doesn't address a single one of Jacksonville's stated priorities — CB, safety, offensive line, linebacker, edge — which is staggering given how thin this roster is at all five spots. Liam Coen needs protection for Trevor Lawrence and Anthony Campanile needs bodies in the back seven, and instead the front office spent a comp pick on a project who profiles as a special-teamer at best. The cap is healthy enough to absorb a swing, but not on a Day 2 lottery ticket. This was a compensatory pick from Detroit, meaning Jacksonville surrendered nothing tangible to acquire it — that's the only thing saving this selection from total catastrophe. But comp picks at the back of round three are gold for trading up into round two or stockpiling future capital, and the Jags burned it on a name that wasn't on a single major board. Quinshon Judkins was still available. Jaylin Smith was still available. Even an OL flier like Jonah Savaiinaea would've made coherent sense. Off-board, full stop. Huskey wasn't in our top-145, wasn't on Jeremiah's top-150, didn't appear in PFF's top-200, and Kiper had him as a priority free agent. The market consensus pegged him as a Day 3 pick at best, with several services projecting undrafted. Taking him at 100 is a two-to-three round reach minimum — call it a 50-pick board delta. There is no analytical framework, public or proprietary, that justifies this slot. This pick screams an organization still finding its footing under a new regime, where conviction has outpaced process. James Gladstone and Liam Coen need to spend the rest of this draft addressing actual roster holes — corner, safety, and interior offensive line — or this class becomes a referendum on whether the front office can read a board at all. Jacksonville hasn't earned trust tonight; they've burned a piece of it. The next three picks have to be surgical.

Actual Pick: Wesley Williams (, ) SURPRISE Buy Jersey

Meh. Wesley Williams (?, —) wasn't on our top-145 big board, which means the Jacksonville Jaguars are betting on something specific that didn't show up in the consensus film grades. The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired this pick via trade (From CAR). Day-3 picks are won and lost on traits-and-fit calls like this — if the team's scouting department saw a special-teams role, a developmental skill, or an injury-discount, that's defensible. We don't have a board grade to anchor a verdict so we're rating this neutral and waiting for training-camp tape.

Actual Pick: Tanner Koziol (, ) SURPRISE Buy Jersey

Meh. Tanner Koziol (?, —) wasn't on our top-145 big board, which means the Jacksonville Jaguars are betting on something specific that didn't show up in the consensus film grades. Day-3 picks are won and lost on traits-and-fit calls like this — if the team's scouting department saw a special-teams role, a developmental skill, or an injury-discount, that's defensible. We don't have a board grade to anchor a verdict so we're rating this neutral and waiting for training-camp tape.

Actual Pick: Josh Cameron (WR, Baylor) SOLID Buy Jersey

Solid. The Jacksonville Jaguars took Josh Cameron (WR, Baylor) right where our pre-draft board had him — Round 6, projected R6. The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired this pick via trade (From KC via NE). On Day 3 the math is simple: when you land a player at the slot consensus said you'd land him at, the front office didn't outsmart anyone but it also didn't get cute. Solid pick at the right price.

Actual Pick: CJ Williams (, ) SURPRISE Buy Jersey

Meh. CJ Williams (?, —) wasn't on our top-145 big board, which means the Jacksonville Jaguars are betting on something specific that didn't show up in the consensus film grades. The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired this pick via trade (From PHI via HOU and PHI). Day-3 picks are won and lost on traits-and-fit calls like this — if the team's scouting department saw a special-teams role, a developmental skill, or an injury-discount, that's defensible. We don't have a board grade to anchor a verdict so we're rating this neutral and waiting for training-camp tape.

Actual Pick: Zach Durfee (, ) SURPRISE Buy Jersey

Meh. Zach Durfee (?, —) wasn't on our top-145 big board, which means the Jacksonville Jaguars are betting on something specific that didn't show up in the consensus film grades. The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired this pick via trade (From DET). Day-3 picks are won and lost on traits-and-fit calls like this — if the team's scouting department saw a special-teams role, a developmental skill, or an injury-discount, that's defensible. We don't have a board grade to anchor a verdict so we're rating this neutral and waiting for training-camp tape.

Actual Pick: Parker Hughes (, ) SURPRISE Buy Jersey

Meh. Parker Hughes (?, —) wasn't on our top-145 big board, which means the Jacksonville Jaguars are betting on something specific that didn't show up in the consensus film grades. Day-3 picks are won and lost on traits-and-fit calls like this — if the team's scouting department saw a special-teams role, a developmental skill, or an injury-discount, that's defensible. We don't have a board grade to anchor a verdict so we're rating this neutral and waiting for training-camp tape.