{"id":114709,"date":"2026-01-12T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114709\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:46:12","slug":"early-look-ahead-to-jacksonville-jaguars-2026-nfl-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114709\/","title":{"rendered":"Early look ahead to Jacksonville Jaguars 2026 NFL free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very impressive season from the Jacksonville Jaguars <\/a>has come to an end, following a 27-24 loss<\/a> to the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the wild-card round.<\/p>\n

There will be plenty of time to reflect on what took place both in this game and over the course of the season, but let’s take a brief look ahead to the upcoming offseason with a look at the Jaguars’ pending free agents.<\/p>\n

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According to Over the Cap<\/a>, the Jaguars are $7.78 million over the projected 2026 salary cap.<\/p>\n

GM James Gladstone will have to create more space to get out of the red, but also to provide the Jaguars with some spending power in free agency.<\/p>\n

This can be done through certain contract extensions, contract restructures, or possibly a few veteran cuts.<\/p>\n

Now, here are the Jaguars players set to hit free agency in March:<\/p>\n

LB Devin Lloyd<\/p>\n

Lloyd earned himself a payday this offseason after putting together a season that earned him second-team All-Pro honors.<\/p>\n

Lloyd did a bit of everything for the Jacksonville defense under Anthony Campanile. He totaled 25 pressures as a blitzer during the regular season and ranked 11th among linebackers in run defense grade. In coverage, he recorded five interceptions and two pass breakups.<\/p>\n

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CB Montaric Brown<\/p>\n

Brown showcased his ability to be a starting cornerback in this defense. Over the season, he allowed a completion rate of just 54% on 68 targets and had good ball production, logging nine pass breakups and two interceptions.<\/p>\n

RB Travis Etienne<\/p>\n

It was a bounce-back season for Etienne, who for the third time in his career eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark. Liam Coen also got Etienne involved in the passing game as well. Etienne’s ability in space and moving around pre-snap makes him a good fit for this offense.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: NFL free agency: Which Jaguars players are free agents in 2026?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A very impressive season from the Jacksonville Jaguars has come to an end, following a 27-24 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53245,20267,58073,22207,57805,36880,4580,10869,57546,58072,37555,116,118,121,117,49430,4581,58074,10871],"class_list":["post-114709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-andrew-wingard","tag-anthony-campanile","tag-austin-johnson","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-dawuane-smoot","tag-dennis-gardeck","tag-devin-lloyd","tag-dyami-brown","tag-emmanuel-ogbah","tag-free-agents","tag-greg-newsome","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-montaric-brown","tag-quintin-morris","tag-tim","tag-travis-etienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}