{"id":311569,"date":"2026-06-18T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:16:15","slug":"lb-jalen-mcleod-on-mindset-entering-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311569\/","title":{"rendered":"LB Jalen McLeod on Mindset Entering Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Jalen McLeod<\/a>‘s wait is over and that’s good.<\/p>\n

He’s ready for his second NFL season, which in a very real sense will be his first NFL season. For the Jaguars’ linebacker, that means an opportunity to implement lessons learned during a rookie season spent injured, watching and waiting.<\/p>\n

“I’m very excited,” McLeod said.<\/p>\n

McLeod, a sixth-round selection by the Jaguars in the 2025 NFL Draft \u2013 No. 194 overall \u2013 from Auburn University, spent his rookie season on the Reserve\/Injured list with an ankle injury sustained in training camp.<\/p>\n

He learned as he watched. He also liked what he saw.<\/p>\n

“The energy, you could feel it from the sideline,” McLeod said during the Jaguars’ recent three-day mandatory veteran minicamp at the Miller Electric Center<\/a>. “You could feel the stadium rocking, everything. So, me adding on with my talents and adding on to the team \u2013 I’m ready.<\/p>\n

“I’m ready and I’m excited.”<\/p>\n

While McLeod did not make his official debut last season, he said he was still able to use his rookie season to grow other areas of his game.<\/p>\n

“The main thing I learned was how to be a pro \u2013 how to make your own schedule, how to take care of your body, how to just follow footsteps of everybody that has been here for five-plus, six-plus years,” McLeod said. “That was the main thing I consumed.”<\/p>\n

McLeod called the season “like a developmental year,” saying it helped him focus on how to prepare himself and work on his technique and details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE \u2013 Jalen McLeod‘s wait is over and that’s good. He’s ready for his second NFL season, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114351,20267,881,116,118,117,96508,880,883,55405,60676],"class_list":["post-311569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-offseason-program","tag-anthony-campanile","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jalen-mcleod","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\/311569","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=311569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}