{"id":780051,"date":"2026-07-23T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:17:09","slug":"liam-coen-to-bhayshul-tuten-go-be-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780051\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Coen to Bhayshul Tuten: Go be special"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jaguars head coach Liam Coen was discussing the team\u2019s offensive backfield during their offseason program, he called the competition for playing time at running back \u201ctruly wide open\u201d between Chris Rodriguez, Bhayshul Tuten and LeQuint Allen.<\/p>\n

Now that training camp is about to start, Coen seems to be focusing in on one back\u2019s upside. Tuten was a fourth-round pick out of Virginia Tech last year, but he began his college time at North Carolina A&T and Coen said on The Schrager Hour podcast that he faced \u201ca little bit of a learning curve\u201d when it came to all the facets of playing in the NFL. <\/p>\n

Tuten now has a year under his belt and no longer has Travis Etienne ahead of him, which has Coen looking for a major leap forward this fall. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe does a great job<\/a> of finding the end zone and his yards after contact and rushing yards, man \u2014 when he can get going and get downhill, I mean, he was 4.28 coming out. So he can fly,\u201d Coen said. \u201cNow it\u2019s more so, he was so conscientious about ball security last year and doing right. Okay, now Tuten, you got it. You understand it more. Now just go be you. Go do what got you here. Go be special, that\u2019s who you are. We\u2019re definitely expecting Tuten to have a big year for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jaguars exceeded expectations by winning 13 games last season, including nine of their last 10 in the regular season. That sets a higher bar for this year and Tuten making good on Coen\u2019s prediction would help position them to stay among the contenders in the AFC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jaguars head coach Liam Coen was discussing the team\u2019s offensive backfield during their offseason program, he called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-780051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780051","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=780051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}