One Stat for Every Player on the Jaguars 53-Man Roster

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The Jacksonville Jaguars have finalized its 53-man roster for the 2025 season.

With new GM James Gladstone gutting much of what Trent Baalke left behind, there are plenty of new faces in town. So I tried to find the most interesting/telling statistic for each player as a way to get to know them.

Find more information on each player at our Roster page.

Quarterback

Trevor Lawrence's 1.8 big-time throws per game over the past two seasons ranks fourth among all quarterbacks, per PFF.

Nick Mullens set an NFL debut record with a 151.9 passer rating in Week 9 of 2018.

Running back

Travis Etienne has 299 carries for 1,384 yards (4.63 YPC) in September and October; he has 338 carries for 1,307 yards (3.87 YPC) in November, December and January.

Tank Bigsby's 2.23 Rushing Yards Over Expected against heavy boxes (8+ defenders near the line of scrimmage) in 2024 ranked second behind only Derrick Henry, per @fball_insights.

Bhayshul Tuten's 4.32-second 40-yard dash tied De'Von Achane for the fourth-fastest time in NFL Combine history among running backs.

LeQuint Allen led all FBS running backs with 64 receptions in 2024.

Wide receiver

Brian Thomas had 11 games of 75+ receiving yards last year, tying Bill Groman for the most by a rookie in NFL history.

Travis Hunter's 68.8% catch rate on contested targets ranked second in the Power 4 last year.

Dyami Brown earned a designed read on 51.3% of targets in 2024, the most among all receivers with at least 20 total targets, per Fantasy Points.

Parker Washington's 96-yard punt return touchdown in Week 7 of 2024 was the longest in franchise history and the first special teams touchdown in NFL London Games history.

Tim Patrick's 63.6 PFF run block grade ranked ninth among 68 receivers in 2024.

Tight end

Brenton Strange ranked 38th among 43 tight ends in Open Score (based on Next Gen Stats' player tracking data) in 2024.

Hunter Long's 68.9 PFF run block grade ranked fifth among 86 tight ends in 2024.

Johnny Mundt's 77.5% catch rate across the past three seasons ranks fifth among 60 tight ends.

Offensive line

Walker Little's 13 pressures allowed were the fourth-fewest among 67 offensive tackles with 500+ snaps in 2024, per PFF.

Ezra Cleveland's 4.8% pressure rate allowed ranked fifth among all left guards in 2024, per Next Gen Stats.

Robert Hainsey's 52.8 PFF blocking grade ranked 28th among starting centers in 2023.

Patrick Mekari's 95% ESPN pass block win rate ranked 18th among all interior offensive linemen in 2024.

Anton Harrison's PFF pass block grade on true pass sets rose from 48.0 in 2023 (73rd among 90 OTs) to 55.8 in 2024 (59th among 87 OTs).

Chuma Edoga's 90.6 PFF run block grade ranked 10th among all offensive linemen during the 2025 preseason, albeit in a small sample of 12 total snaps.

Cole Van Lanen had the second-worst blown block rate (6.8%) among all offensive tackles in 2024, per Sports Info Solutions.

Wyatt Milum didn't allow a single sack in 1,155 pass blocking snaps across a three-year period at West Virginia.

Jonah Monheim was one of four rookie interior linemen to allow 0 quarterback pressures on true pass sets during the 2025 preseason, per PFF.

Defensive end

Josh Hines-Allen joins Myles Garrett, Micah Parsons, and Trey Hendrickson as the only players with 25+ sacks and 150+ pressures since 2023.

Travon Walker is one of seven players to record double-digit sacks in each of the past two seasons.

Emmanuel Ogbah ranks fourth among all defensive linemen with 41 pass deflections since he entered the league in 2016.

Dawuane Smoot's 6.8% run-stop win rate ranked 35th among 126 edge defenders in 2024, per PFF.

Danny Striggow joined Connor O'Toole as the only rookies with multiple sacks during the 2025 preseason, per PFF.

B.J. Green II ranked fifth among 125 defensive linemen with a 23.7% PFF pass rush win rate during the 2025 preseason.

Austin Johnson was the only NFL defensive tackle to record multiple interceptions in 2024.

Defensive tackle

DaVon Hamilton ranked second among all defensive tackles with a 12.4% run-stop win rate in 2024, per PFF.

Arik Armstead ranked 27th in pressure rate (9.9%) but just 84th in sack rate (0.6%) among 125 defensive tackles last year, per Sports Info Solutions.

Maason Smith totaled 3 pressures in his first five games of 2024, then 11 pressures in his final six games.

Khalen Saunders reached a top speed of 15.79 mph on last year's 37-yard interception return, the third-fastest speed by a ball carrier who weighs over 320 pounds since 2016, per Next Gen Stats.

Linebacker

Foyesade Oluokun's 927 career combined tackles and 571 career solo tackles trail only Bobby Wagner and Roquan Smith since he entered the league in 2018.

Devin Lloyd's 84.2 PFF run defense grade ranked ninth among 92 linebackers in 2024.

Ventrell Miller's 19.3% missed tackle rate ranked 86th among 92 linebackers in 2024.

Yasir Abdullah's PFF defense grade rose from 30.7 in 2023 (worst on the team) to 56.6 in 2024 (18th out of 30 Jaguars).

Jack Kiser's 70 career games played is the most in Notre Dame history.

Dennis Gardeck was the only NFL player with at least 5 tackles for loss and 1 interception through the first three weeks of the 2024 season.

Cornerback

Tyson Campbell broke out in 2022 with 0.5 yards allowed per coverage snap (seventh among 124 cornerbacks), but that number dropped to 1.1 in 2023 (93rd/124) and 1.0 in 2024 (86th/117), per Sports Info Solutions.

Jourdan Lewis ranked 15th among 108 cornerbacks in Field Vision's Havoc Rating in 2024.

Travis Hunter was targeted at the lowest rate (10.8%) and intercepted passes at the highest rate (10.9%) of any Power 4 cornerback with at least 400 snaps.

Jarrian Jones ranked 12th among 127 corners in passer rating allowed (62.2) and coverage snaps per reception (17.1) in man coverage last year, per Sports Info Solutions.

Montaric Brown allowed 26.57 Expected Points Added in coverage last year, seventh-most among 117 corners, per Sports Info Solutions.

Christian Braswell's 84.2 PFF tackling grade in 2024 ranked second on the team and fifth among all cornerbacks.

Safety

Eric Murray was one of five players with at least 75 tackles, 10 pass breakups, and 2 quarterback hits in 2024.

Andrew Wingard allowed a 28.6% completion percentage in 2024, the best rate of any safety who was targeted at least five times, per PFF.

Darnell Savage ranked 101st among 104 cornerbacks with a 41.5 PFF coverage grade last year.

Antonio Johnson ranked 103rd in the same metric with a 35.1 PFF coverage grade.

Rayuan Lane III held the longest active streak among FBS safeties with 43 consecutive games started.

Special teams

Cam Little's 70-yard field goal in Preseason Week 1 of 2025 was longest field goal in the history of any football game at any level.

Logan Cooke holds the NFL's all-time record for net yards per punt (accounting for return yards), per @DanDGriffis.

Ross Matiscik's 18 special teams tackles since entering the league in 2020 are tied for first among all NFL long snappers.