{"id":246875,"date":"2026-04-26T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246875\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:54:11","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-select-washington-de-zach-durfee-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246875\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars select Washington DE Zach Durfee in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the No. 233 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars selected Zach Durfee, EDGE defender, Washington.<\/p>\n

Durfee was this year\u2019s \u201cProspect X<\/a>,\u201d an under-the-radar prospect whom ESPN profiles before each year\u2019s draft. Jacksonville\u2019s latest intangibly-rich addition figures to battle 2025 UDFAs Danny Striggow and B.J. Green II for a spot at the bottom of the depth chart in 2026.<\/p>\n

Defense & Fumbles Table Tackles Def Interceptions Fumbles Season Team Conf Class Pos G Solo Ast Comb TFL Sk Int Yds IntTD PD FR Yds FRTD FF Awards 2024<\/a>* Washington<\/a> Big Ten<\/a> JR LB 6 8 8 16 3.5 2.5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2025<\/a>* Washington<\/a> Big Ten<\/a> SR LB 11 16 21 37 5.0 4.0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 Career 17 24 29 53 8.5 6.5 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 <\/p>\n

From Lance Zierlein of NFL.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Durfee is an edge defender with good short-area quickness. He\u2019s a twitchy athlete boasting sudden change of direction. However, he\u2019s lacking in overall production, has short arms and could struggle with edge-setting\/take-on duties while scrapping against tackles. Durfee needs more work in both phases, but his athletic profile and special-teams potential could buy him time to develop on the back end of a roster.<\/p>\n

From Dane Brugler of The Athletic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Durfee struggles to play through contact and has underdeveloped shed skills versus both the run and pass, but his athletic twitch and energetic play style rightfully have NFL teams interested.<\/p>\n

Jaguars fans, let us know your initial thoughts in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the No. 233 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars selected Zach Durfee, EDGE defender,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,6620,26216,6621,15359,117],"class_list":["post-246875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-depth-chart","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-draft","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-roster","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246875","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=246875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}