{"id":308546,"date":"2025-11-23T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:35:12","slug":"jaguars-activate-te-strange-ahead-of-game-vs-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308546\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars activate TE Strange ahead of game vs. Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763883312_331_dirocco_michael.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael DiRoccoNov 22, 2025, 04:38 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">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<p>PHOENIX &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca6fb778-cbf6-d9a3-3e93-01230335fcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/jax\/jacksonville-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> activated tight end <a data-player-guid=\"6fb46cf5-4ad3-ce1a-5625-0891aae50429\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4430539\/brenton-strange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brenton Strange<\/a> from injured reserve on Saturday, paving the way for him to play Sunday against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8fc7b962-95e1-3cb8-6a7d-b499de9ad546\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strange had missed the past five games because of a hip injury he suffered in the Jaguars&#8217; Week 5 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-chiefs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a>. He led the Jaguars in catches (20) and was second in receiving yards (204) at the time of his injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars (6-4) also elevated defensive lineman <a data-player-guid=\"ae8bffcb-9a19-2197-af2a-56e90fe54af6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3134316\/matt-dickerson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Dickerson<\/a> and defensive back <a data-player-guid=\"b2ceae52-b42c-35b2-880a-52de4f6a124b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4877475\/camron-silmon-craig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam&#8217;Ron Silmon-Craig<\/a> to the active roster from the practice squad on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The team had ruled out defensive end <a data-player-guid=\"5431a37e-7b11-f9fb-a12b-68627e0eb858\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426349\/travon-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travon Walker<\/a> (knee), receiver <a data-player-guid=\"f7b37472-30a8-395c-8ade-5462fbda15d4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4432773\/brian-thomas-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Thomas Jr<\/a>. (ankle), right tackle <a data-player-guid=\"84688c57-d24c-3348-bf1a-46aa75be55a8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4692525\/anton-harrison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Harrison<\/a> (knee\/ankle), tight end <a data-player-guid=\"995e925d-d49f-b23a-01a6-be059414d046\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4239944\/hunter-long\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Long<\/a> (hip\/knee) and linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"70dde6e0-0986-bd77-72a5-f239db7bbf20\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4360807\/yasir-abdullah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yasir Abdullah<\/a> (finger) on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoNov 22, 2025, 04:38 PM ET CloseMichael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-308546","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\/308546","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=308546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}