The Jacksonville Jaguars kicked off Rookie Minicamp on Saturday, showcasing the brand new crop of rookie skills acquired within the 2025 NFL Draft, headlined by extensive receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter. Becoming a member of the draft class was a formidable crop of undrafted free brokers (UDFAs) and some notable veteran gamers. In whole, 34 gamers attended on Saturday, up from the 31 gamers in 2024’s rookie minicamp. Of this quantity, 22 members had been undrafted free brokers.
Takeaways from Day 2 of Rookie Minicamp
Travis Hunter continued his follow of training with out gloves, coming away with a number of clear catches and no drops on the day. He was clear out of his breaks on the vast majority of routes and just one occasion of a ball being caught together with his physique as a substitute of his fingers. Breaking information: Travis Hunter appears to be like the half.
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Fourth spherical RB Bhayshul Tuten had himself a stable day early on, trying easy all through drills and within the alignment/task durations. Nevertheless, he did endure one of many solely drops of the day.
Talking of drops, Tuten’s counterpart, seventh-round decide RB LeQuint Allen had zero on the day, trying extraordinarily easy each in his routes and catching the ball. After averaging 40 receiving yards per recreation in 2024, LeQuint will look to translate that trait to the NFL recreation.
There weren’t too many takeaways for the large guys, with rookie camp being extra about orienting to the NFL playbook, processes, communication, and such (IE: primarily in regards to the ability guys). Nevertheless, with solely three offensive linemen in attendance, OL Wyatt Milum manned a number of offensive line spots all through follow. This will likely have been merely out of necessity, with the restricted choices or a bigger plan for acclimated shifting ahead. Solely time will inform.
After follow, Jaguars head coach Liam Coen spoke with the assembled media to offer his takeaways from Day 2 on the grass for the rookie class.
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Hunter to start training on protection subsequent week
Everybody’s favourite Jacksonville Jaguar, Travis Hunter has been just about THE matter of dialog for followers and media alike. Because the groups’ management beforehand talked about post-draft, Hunter will initially play on the offensive aspect of the ball, to later add his defensive orientation. At present Coen talked about that that plan would come with Hunter begining follow with the protection subsequent week.
“He’ll be capable of get built-in subsequent week on the defensive aspect of the ball. We simply sort of ended up making a call that, from yesterday to immediately, we wished to have the ability to clear up among the issues that we might have been in a position to miss yesterday, get additional reps on the offensive aspect of the ball, and subsequent week, he’ll begin to roll on protection.”
He continued…
“He’s been in a position to dive in and study a few of our three-deep coverages, what will we name our three-deep coverages on the surface, if he must be manned up on the bottom of a three-by-one, he is aware of all of these calls already. So, on the finish of the day, it’s going to be about, on the defensive aspect of the ball, communication. The method and fundamentals, we’ll proceed to harp on, but it surely’s actually about being on the identical web page as the remainder of the fellows on the again finish from a communication standpoint and the remainder will sort of care for itself.”
Talking of Hunter, his infectious vitality continues to point out itself, each on the sphere and within the locker room, as famous after follow by Coen.
“He ran a route yesterday the place his shoe got here off and it didn’t fairly have an effect on him. Made an amazing catch. It’s extra simply his presence and the vitality he does present each within the classroom, within the assembly rooms, and in addition out right here on the sphere.”
Jon Gruden with an help to Duval
The fraternity of NFL coaches is a small circle, the place relationships can typically be the important thing in closing offers with brokers, creating market curiosity with gamers, or sometimes these relationships may help groups get eyes on an under-the-radar prospect. Per Coach Coen, former NFL head coach and media persona with Barstool Sports activities, Jon Gruden reached out to direct Coen’s eyes in the direction of prized UDFA QB Seth Henigan out of the College of Memphis.
“I’ll be trustworthy, hadn’t watched a ton of his tape earlier than we ended up bringing him in. As soon as we did, I bought to speak to him. Jon Gruden really hit me up about him. Shot me a textual content, I believe they spent a while collectively through the offseason. You may undoubtedly see the coach’s child mentality. He did an amazing job of calling the performs and having the command. We weren’t simply on the market calling one play. We had been canning performs, two play calls, he was dealing with all that stuff nicely. So, time will inform, however undoubtedly man to begin off with.”
Seth was featured on Gruden’s QB Class this low season, for many who haven’t seen the episode. It’s an amazing look ahead to Jaguars followers who need to know a bit extra in regards to the undrafted quarterback.
Joint practices nonetheless in query
Lastly, Coach Coen additionally suggested that he hopes to have joint practices this low season, as they’ve most of the previous years. Nevertheless, nothing particular has been locked in to this point.
“I hope so. We’ll see. All of it sort of is determined by the schedule and the league and all that. We haven’t been in a position to get that data fairly but. We’ll proceed to make the most of any asset we will to make that work, however we’ve had some communication.”
For these in attendance, what did we miss? Any extra takeaways from Saturday’s public attendance Day 2 of Rookie Minicamp? Tell us within the feedback!