signed with the New Orleans Saints this week<\/a> and Rodriguez called his next task “clicking with those running backs” and “figuring out what it is that can help make us more efficient or not even just as a running back, but as an offensive standpoint.”<\/p>\n“That’s a conversation that we have with the guys, and going into the season we’ll figure out what we need and how we can improve,” he said. “It’s going to be a competition every day with those guys. It’s one thing I like to do; we like to compete. It’s going to be a fun process.<\/p>\n
“If they have any questions about anything, I’m here to answer them. I know these guys were in great hands before with another veteran in the room and now going into Liam’s second season, I know he’s done well with them as well.”<\/p>\n
Rodriguez has six receptions for 54 yards in three seasons, adding that he has ability as a receiver.<\/p>\n
“Ask any of my coaches that I’ve been around,” he said. “They would tell you I can catch the ball. I feel like I can catch, I can run routes, might not be as clean as some of the other guys but I can definitely run routes and catch the ball.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodriguez, who rushed for 500 yards and six touchdowns this past season, originally was a sixth-round selection by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[84731,88205,881,116,118,117,59900,885,87203,880,883,55405,60676],"class_list":["post-191621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-chris-rodriguez-jr","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-gladstone","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-2026-free-agency","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-jaguars-news","tag-sponsor-dream-finders-homes","tag-sponsors-dream-finders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621","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=191621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}