Former South Alabama quarterback Carter Bradley has signed a reserve/future contract to stay with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The Monday signing comes after the NFL team’s defensive coordinator, Anthony Campanile, praised Bradley last week for his role in preparing the Jacksonville defense this season as the scout-team quarterback at practice.
“He’s awesome,” Campanile said. “… He’s been so good for us in terms of giving us, like, the exact look, even the communication of things at the line of scrimmage. He takes it so seriously. He’s got great leadership qualities at the line of scrimmage, and just you can see him driving the scout guys. He’s a great help to me because I’m kind of like that in practice, too, you know, where want the thing going, want everybody going, flying around, and he really does a great job of controlling the tempo of the practice and giving us such an accurate look of what not only the plays are going to be, but the pre-snap process is going to be. He’s been awesome. He’s a stud.”
Bradley joined the Jaguars’ practice squad on Sept. 30 after recovering from an injury sustained in the San Francisco 49ers’ preseason finale in August. Bradley came to Jacksonville after being waived by San Francisco and did not play in a game in 2025.
Bradley spent the 2024 season with the Las Vegas Raiders as an undrafted rookie without playing in a regular-season game. After being waived by Las Vegas on July 14, Bradley signed with San Francisco in time for training camp.
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A player signed to a reserve/future contract can be added to an NFL team’s roster when it expands from 53 to 90 players for the offseason on the first day of the NFL’s 2026 business year on March 11. The newly signed players become eligible to participate in the offseason workouts, minicamps and OTAs leading to training camp.
Jacksonville signed most of its practice squad to reserve/future contracts on Monday, the day after their season ended with a 27-24 loss to the Buffalo Bills in a Wild-Card Weekend game.
That included safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig, a former Fultondale High School standout who played three games as a practice-squad elevation as an undrafted rookie in 2025, and offensive tackle Kilian Zierer, a former Auburn standout who has not played in an NFL regular-season game during his three seasons.
Also signing a reserve/future contract on Monday was wide receiver Quez Watkins with the Philadelphia Eagles. The former Athens High School standout had 98 receptions for 1,249 yards and six touchdowns in 49 regular-season games from 2020 through 2023 with the Eagles. Watkins spent the 2024 season on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice squad and most of the 2025 season on Philadelphia’s practice squad after getting hurt in training camp with the Arizona Cardinals.