{"id":254924,"date":"2025-10-27T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:07:08","slug":"liam-coen-jaguars-not-trading-second-year-wr-brian-thomas-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/254924\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Coen: Jaguars not trading second-year WR Brian Thomas Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael DiRoccoOct 27, 2025, 12:32 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN and the Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> are not going to trade receiver Brian Thomas Jr<\/a>. despite the second-year player’s struggles to start the season, head coach Liam Coen said Monday.<\/p>\n

“We have no plans to move Brian Thomas,” Coen said. “I’ve got a lot of confidence in him.”<\/p>\n

Thomas leads the Jaguars with 365 receiving yards, and his 27 receptions are second to Travis Hunter<\/a>‘s team-high 28. He’s also tied for second in the NFL with five drops, per ESPN Research, which is one more than he had as a rookie in 2024.<\/p>\n

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There also have been multiple occasions where he has appeared to avoid contact while attempting to make a catch.<\/p>\n

Thomas finished third in the NFL in receiving yards last season (1,282) — behind only Ja’Marr Chase<\/a> (1,708) and Justin Jefferson<\/a> (1,533) — to go along with 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

When Coen was hired in January, he said the pass offense would run through Thomas, but prior to the Jaguars’ Week 7 game against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> he said he needed to call more plays where Hunter was the No. 1 target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoOct 27, 2025, 12:32 PM ET CloseMichael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-254924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}