{"id":385901,"date":"2026-08-31T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:02:12","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-2026-initial-53-man-roster-only-5-linebackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385901\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars 2026 initial 53-man roster: Only 5 linebackers??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Jacksonville Jaguars finalized their initial 53-man roster for the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There weren\u2019t any major surprises on cut day, but it was an active one for general manager James Gladstone. The Jags waived offseason playmaker Jabbar Muhammad in favor of the more experienced cornerback Christian Braswell II, upgraded at quarterback from Nick Mullens to Quinn Ewers, and kept Quintin Morris on board as TE4 after trading away Hunter Long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With the team keeping four tight ends and four running backs \u2014 shoutout Ameer Abdullah \u2014 that meant there was a little less room on the other side of the ball. Jacksonville\u2019s weakest on-paper position is officially linebacker, as the team parted with Jack Kiser, Yasir Abdullah and Jalen McLeod. Just five guys man that spot now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s a look at the 53-man roster, though it\u2019s sure to change considerably by the time the Jaguars play in Inglewood on February 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Jags fans, what are your immediate takeaways? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Jaguars finalized their initial 53-man roster for the 2026 NFL season. There weren\u2019t any major surprises&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,6620,6621,15359,117],"class_list":["post-385901","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-news","tag-jacksonville-jaguars-roster","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385901","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=385901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}