The Jacksonville Jaguars, to this point, have had a fairly wholesome 25 off-seasons. With the Jacksonville rookie class arriving in Jacksonville on Saturday and the workforce veterans reporting at present, the workforce has added a second participant to the Lively/Bodily Unable to Carry out (PUP) checklist this week. The workforce introduced Tuesday that sophomore defensive sort out Maason Smith would start his 2025 coaching camp on the PUP checklist with an undisclosed harm.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have positioned DT Maason Smith on the Lively/Bodily Unable to Carry out (PUP) checklist.
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Smith, a second-round decide from the 2024 draft, got here on sturdy in direction of the top of the 2024 season, main all Jaguar defensive tackles with a 9.7% stress ranking.
The PUP checklist was created as a roster-holding space for gamers who’re bodily unable to carry out soccer actions on account of football-related accidents. Nonetheless, these gamers can nonetheless take part in different workforce actions. They’re merely not allowed to apply.
Per NFL rule, the coaching camp PUP checklist is outlined as:
Gamers are positioned on this checklist throughout coaching camp and depend towards a workforce’s 90-man roster. Gamers will be faraway from the checklist at any time throughout camp, however can’t be positioned again on the checklist. Gamers on this checklist as of ultimate roster cutdowns should be positioned on the Reserve/PUP, launched, traded or counted in opposition to the 53-man roster.
Word: If Smith, or some other participant on the PUP, have been to stay on the checklist after the ultimate roster cuts to 53, he would then be required to overlook the primary six weeks of the yr.
Smith will be a part of Jaguars free agent linebacker Dennis Gardeck on the PUP checklist. Gardeck’s placement on the checklist was introduced on Saturday, and is presumably recovering from his season-ending torn ACL he suffered on October 21, 2024 in opposition to the Los Angeles Chargers. The 2024 harm was Gardeck’s third torn ACL, together with one occasion in 2020 & one other in highschool.
Moreover, guard Cooper Hodges was waived in June with a failed bodily designation. After clearing waivers from his November knee harm, he initially reverted to the PUP checklist additionally. As a notice, ESPN has differing data, with Hodges listed on injured reserve, which can require clarification. The promising guard choice within the 2023 coaching camp, Hodges performed 9 video games in 2024, with 1 begin after sitting out all of 2023. Many within the fan base thought he would develop to turn into the potential successor for Brandon Scherff. Nonetheless, after coping with season-ending accidents two years straight, it’s at the moment unknown the place he’s inside his restoration timeline.
Smith, in contrast to Hodges and Gardeck, didn’t finish 2024 with a severe harm. He was current and seemingly wholesome throughout Organized Coaching Actions (OTAs), whereas serving to the profitable workforce in the course of the Jaguar Iron Video games.
With groups typically itemizing comparatively minor accidents on the offseason PUP, till confirmed by the management, the belief is that this isn’t a longterm harm. It might have been one thing conditioning-related or simply precautionary. We are going to collect extra data from coach Liam Coen after Wednesday’s opening apply for coaching camp.