{"id":246568,"date":"2026-04-25T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:31:16","slug":"jaguars-tanner-koziol-picked-by-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246568\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Tanner Koziol: Picked by Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/416.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/JAC\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaguars<\/a> selected <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/players\/28874303\/tanner-koziol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koziol<\/a> in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 164th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Koziol fell almost to the sixth round over concerns that he just doesn&#8217;t have what it takes to be a blocker at the NFL level. At 6-foot-7, 247 pounds Koziol is big in general but his height (93rd percentile, according to Mockdraftable) rapidly outpaces his weight (27th percentile). There&#8217;s also the suspicion that Koziol just doesn&#8217;t have tight-end temperament &#8212; he truly might be a gigantic wide receiver. Finally, the good news: as a pass catcher Koziol clearly has NFL ability. Koziol drew targets at a rapid frequency at both Ball State and Houston, proving beyond any doubt that he will draw targets at a standout per-snap basis. The concern is that Koziol&#8217;s lack of blocking ability or\/and intent could result in a very low snap count, even if he makes the team. Long shot as he might be, Koziol is still a preferable fantasy target to Jaguars second-round pick Nate Boerkircher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars selected Koziol in the fifth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, 164th overall. Koziol fell almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10323,116,118,121,117,108374],"class_list":{"0":"post-246568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-tanner-koziol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246568","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=246568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}