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An early glimpse at what the first three rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft could look like for the Jaguars.
We are fresh off the 2024 NFL Draft and the Jacksonville Jaguars’ latest class resulted in mixed opinions to say the least. After nine picks, it somehow still feels like a lot of the team’s needs going into the draft remain the same.
Obviously, it’s way too early to make a definitive judgment on a class that has yet to hit the field, but it’s hard not to feel like there are still some questions in terms of roster construction heading into the 2024 season.
With that in mind, it couldn’t hurt to go ahead and get an early glimpse at what the 2025 NFL Draft could offer a year from now.
Here is a three-round Jacksonville Jaguars way-too-early 2025 mock draft.
With both Cam Robinson and Walker Little playing on expiring contracts in 2024, the future of Jacksonville’s offensive tackle position was already a big talking point ahead of this year’s draft. So much so that there were plenty of mocks out there that had the team addressing OT with their first-round pick.
The Jags ultimately chose to go elsewhere in the first, and waited all the way until the fourth round to address the need when they took Javon Foster out of Missouri. While I think Foster is a nice developmental swing tackle option, Jacksonville must prioritize solidifying the future of the OT position opposite Anton Harrison.
One name to keep an eye out for in 2024 is LSU’s Emery Jones Jr. At 6-foot-6 and over 320 pounds, Jones is a mountain on the right side of that Tigers line. Although he hasn’t gotten as much attention as his blindside counterpart, Will Campbell, Jones is a very impressive player in his own right. He’s entering his junior season having already started 24 games and has incredible traits to pair with some developing technical aspects of his game.
Drafting Jones would allow the Jags to get Anton Harrison back over to the left side where he belongs, and would solidify the tackle position for the foreseeable future.
Jacksonville passing on the opportunity to draft either of the consensus top two corners in the 2024 draft was a shock to many in the moment. Not because the pick of Brian Thomas Jr. was a surprise per se, but because cornerback was by far the most glaring positional need for Jacksonville, so having their choice of Quinyon Mitchell or Terrion Arnold felt like a no-brainer.
While they did eventually add some talent to the corner room with the selection of Jarrian Jones in the third round, he’s expected to be primarily used at nickel. That still leaves a serious lack of depth on the boundary moving forward. With Tyson Campbell entering the last year of his rookie deal and Ronald Darby being nothing more than a...
