Muhammad spent the last year preparing for that opportunity, having spent his 2025 rookie season on the Jaguars’ practice squad after signing with the team as a collegiate free agent from the University of Oregon following the ’25 draft.<\/p>\n
“Just getting used to the speed, getting used to playing against the best of the best,” Muhammad said of his rookie season.<\/p>\n
Muhammad was a consistent presence for the Jaguars’ secondary in terms of big plays in practice this offseason, frequently getting his hand on the ball and serving as a catalyst for the defense’s ability to break up passes.<\/p>\n
“You could argue for a most improved for Jabbar really over the last year,” Jaguars Head Coach Liam Coen said earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Muhammad, an Associated Press All-Pac 12 First-Team cornerback at Washington in 2023 and an All-Big Ten second-team selection at Oregon in 2024, recorded 31 pass breakups in his final two years of college.<\/p>\n
He said he feels like he is “just getting back to being myself” after a year of learning.<\/p>\n
“When I came in for the offseason program \u2026 just carrying that momentum knowing that I can play, knowing that I can just come out here and make plays, knowing that I know the playbook inside and out now,” he said.<\/p>\n
While Muhammad learned during his rookie year on the sidelines, he watched and learned from Jaguars veteran cornerbacks such as Jourdan Lewis, Montaric Brown, Jarrian Jones and Christian Braswell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammad spent the last year preparing for that opportunity, having spent his 2025 rookie season on the Jaguars’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114351,881,123510,116,118,117,880,883,55405,60676],"class_list":["post-316644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-2026-offseason-program","tag-front-page-headline","tag-jabbar-muhammad","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","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\/316644","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=316644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}