Big Cat Country
Today was the final training camp practice at the Miller Electric Center for the 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars. The team will head to Miami this afternoon ahead of its joint practice (Thursday) and Preseason Week 3 game (Saturday) against the Dolphins.
Here are our notes from Day 18.
No. 2 overall pick Travis Hunter practiced with the offense during individual drills and met with defensive coaches during team drills. However, he was held out of team drills for a third straight practice, as the team continues to be cautious with his minor upper-body injury that held him out of the Week 2 preseason game. He seemed to be moving around just fine.
Starting cornerback Tyson Campbell was a full participant in practice for the first time since getting banged up in Week 1 of the preseason — a great sign for his Week 1 regular season availability. He was wearing an orange non-contact pinny, but it was good to see him back in action. He had tight coverage down the sideline against Brian Thomas Jr. on one rep.
Defensive tackles Arik Armstead and Maason Smith practiced in full again — they’d been out for much of training camp due to injuries. Wide receivers Josh Cephus and Eli Pancol were held out.
Parker Washington had the play of the day for the umpteenth time. He secured a long throw from Trevor Lawrence in the corner of the endzone against Jourdan Lewis toward the end of team drills.
Hunter “one big play a day” Long had a nice catch and run during team drills on a deep pass from Nick Mullens. Not that it’s a surprise, but the free agency pickup seems to have a firm grasp on the team’s TE2 role behind Brenton Strange.
De’Antre Prince had an interception off a dropped pass by Patrick Herbert.
With the team preparing for a road trip down I-95, it was a relatively light practice with few reps in team drills.
Wide receiver Dyami Brown, offensive coordinator Grant Udinski, and defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile spoke with media after today’s practice.
A bar from Campanile: “I think the best teams are definitely player-led more than they’re coach-led. Coaches play a huge part in that, setting the stage of the culture, but the players play the game, the players win the game.”
“Toughness” is what new addition Khalen Saunders brings to the defense. “He is a really, really twitchy guy in my opinion. Watching him and all that, just watching him go through the drills and everything, he brings a level of physicality. I think he’s got tremendous block release, to be honest with you. When you watch him, he does a really great job of not staying blocked, hard to move inside in the interior. So, it’s always great to have a twitchy guy like that inside where you feel like you can still get some rush, even in early down action once he reacts to drop back or play...
