JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Senior writer John Oehser takes a week-by-week look at the Jaguars’ 2026 schedule, which was announced Thursday night by the NFL<\/p>\n
Cleveland Browns (5-12, 2025 fourth in AFC North) at EverBank Stadium, 1 p.m., CBS<\/p>\n
Breakdown: This is an important regular-season opener for the Jaguars, with back-to-back games against AFC powers Denver and New England in Weeks 2 and 3 \u2013 and with four of their five games after Week 1 against teams with winning records in 2025. This season will be the first for the Browns under Head Coach Todd Monken, the Jaguars’ wide receivers coach from 2007-2010 who served as Baltimore Ravens’ offensive coordinator the past three seasons. Key Browns offseason storyline: Quarterback, where veteran Deshaun Watson is expected to compete with second-year veteran Shedeur Sanders. The Jaguars are 16-15 all-time in regular-season openers, including a 26-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Jacksonville in 2025. The Jaguars are 12-8 all-time against the Browns, with the series tied 5-5 in Jacksonville. The Browns won the teams’ last meeting, 18-15, in Jacksonville in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Senior writer John Oehser takes a week-by-week look at the Jaguars’ 2026 schedule, which was announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113857,881,116,118,117,885,880,6315,883],"class_list":["post-271865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-schedule-release","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-john-oehser","tag-news-front-page-headline","tag-news-game-week","tag-news-jaguars-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271865","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=271865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}