Though he found it hard to get home in 2025, with his 3.5 sacks matching the output from his rookie year despite 42 pressures, Walker has developed to form a terrific one-two pass-rushing punch with Hines-Allen and was a major factor in Jacksonville’s first top-10 finish in points allowed since 2018.<\/p>\n
Walker, 25 years old with a 6-foot-5, 272-pound frame, is also more than capable setting an edge in the running game. That’s an area where the Jags excelled last year; they held opponents to the fewest rushing yards per game in the league.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars have mostly stood pat in free agency<\/a>. Their only notable addition is running back Chris Rodriguez Jr.<\/a> to help replace the void left by Travis Etienne<\/a>‘s departure, as they’ve instead prioritized bringing back some of their own.<\/p>\n Walker, who was heading into his fifth-year rookie option, represents the most important homegrown talent Jacksonville secured this cycle. The team also might’ve scored a little bit of a bargain by rewarding Walker early, lest he had blown the top off his market with another 10-plus sack effort in 2026.<\/p>\n With an extension out of the way with plenty of time to spare, all attention now turns to the defending the AFC South crown.<\/p>\n If Walker and the Jaguars can repeat in the division, it’ll be just the second time in franchise history — and first since 1998-99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though he found it hard to get home in 2025, with his 3.5 sacks matching the output from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5267,116,118,121,117,115,5265,74630,13170],"class_list":{"0":"post-219234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-travon-walker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234","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=219234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}