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Doug Pederson: Jaguars TE Evan Engram hurt shoulder vs. Titans

Doug Pederson: Jaguars TE Evan Engram hurt shoulder vs. Titans

Jaguars tight end Evan Engram injured his shoulder in Jacksonville’s 10-6 victory over the Tennessee Titans in Week 14, head coach Doug Pederson revealed on Monday.

Pederson did not specify the severity of Engram’s injury. He finished the matchup with four receptions for 33 yards over 42 offensive snaps.

“Evan’s gonna have a little bit of a shoulder, in the game,” Pederson said while breaking down Jacksonville’s injury report from the meeting.

Engram has logged 47 receptions for 365 yards and one touchdown in nine games this season. He missed Weeks 2-5 with a hamstring injury.

In 43 games over more than two seasons with the Jaguars, Engram has caught 234 passes for 2,094 yards and nine touchdowns.

Pederson added that Jaguars starting safety Darnell Savage Jr. is “fine” after being evaluated for a concussion on Sunday. Savage was ultimately cleared to return to play.

Pederson also noted that punter Logan Cooke, who entered the game with a left knee injury that prevented him from practicing in Week 14, “made it through” the contest.

Savage had two tackles against Tennessee; Cooke punted four times with a 49.5-yard average.

Jaguars dealing with injuries to pair of key special teamers

Jaguars dealing with injuries to pair of key special teamers

The Jaguars are dealing with injuries to a pair of key special teamers, punter Logan Cooke and long snapper Ross Matiscik, ahead of Jacksonville’s Week 14 road matchup with the Tennessee Titans.

Cooke and Matiscik will appear on Jacksonville’s Week 14 injury report with lower-body injuries undisclosed at press time, Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson revealed Wednesday.

Jacksonville signed punter Matt Haack and long snapper Tucker Addington to its practice squad on Tuesday, anticipating Cooke and Matiscik’s limitations or potential unavailability.

“Both guys won’t practice today, so we just need to get the reps from that position,” Pederson said. “So, these two guys, we brought them in to fill that need.”

In his seventh season as Jacksonville’s starting punter, Cooke is averaging career-highs of 51.3 yards and 46 net yards per punt. 54.2% of his punts have been pinned inside the 20-yard line, also trending toward a career-best.

Matiscik has started 79 consecutive games at long snapper for the Jaguars since 2020. He earned First-Team All-Pro recognition in 2023 after recording eight special teams tackles.

Haack has punted 453 times with a 44.7-yard average in his eight-year NFL career, over four seasons with the Miami Dolphins and one-season stints with the Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns and New York Giants. He has pinned 169 punts inside the 20-yard line and recorded 26 touchbacks.

Addington returned to Jacksonville after briefly playing for the Jaguars during the 2023 preseason. He has also spent time with the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Washington Commanders and Dolphins since entering the NFL in 2022. He has appeared in 10 games and recorded one tackle.

Logan Cooke’s unbelievable 73-yard punt genuinely might be the Jaguars’ best play of 2024

This monster Jaguars punt will likely be their best play all year.

It’s been a long year for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We’re almost at the midway point, and the team is just 2-5, casting doubt about Doug Pederson’s future and Trevor Lawrence’s viability as a franchise quarterback in the long term.

So, I don’t joke or say this lightly, Jaguars fans: a booming punt might legitimately be the highlight of your team’s entire season.

As the Jaguars battled the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Jacksonville punter Logan Cooke let one fly from near his own end zone. He ended up launching the ball an astonishing 64 yards in the air before it took one friendly bounce to pin the Packers at their own two-yard line.

That’s right, folks. Cooke cooked up a 73-yard punt. Holy cow:

I don’t normally say about this special teams plays, but given how bad the Jaguars are, they really should hang their hat on ridiculous punts like this. After all, what else will they have to celebrate?

Logan Cooke of Jaguars booms 73-yard coffin-corner punt

Logan Cooke with the definition of a coffin-corner punt

Logan Cooke of the Jacksonville Jaguars must be in the Halloween spirit.

The punter unloaded a coffin corner kick early in Sunday’s game with the Green Bay Packers.

When it was done, the kick had traveled 73 yards and pinned the Pack at their two-yard line.

Jaguars announce five team captains for 2024 season

Jaguars announce five team captains for 2024 season

The Jaguars announced five team captains Tuesday morning, awarding quarterback Trevor Lawrence, tight end Evan Engram, defensive end Joshua Hines-Allen, linebacker Foyesade Oluokun and punter Logan Cooke the honors for the 2024 season.

Lawrence returns to his leadership post for a fourth consecutive campaign, every season he has been with Jacksonville since his first overall selection in the 2021 NFL draft, and Oluokun does the same for his third.

Viewed as franchise cornerstones, Lawrence, Oluokun and Hines-Allen each signed long-term contracts with Jacksonville this offseason.

Lawrence and Hines-Allen both inked five-year deals with the club, Lawrence’s worth $275 million through 2030 and Hines-Allen’s $141.3 million through 2028. Oluokun tacked three years and $30 million onto his original contract with the Jaguars, which had one season remaining.

In three seasons and 50 starts with the Jaguars, Lawrence has completed 63.8% of his passes for 11,770 yards with 58 touchdowns and 39 interceptions, adding 11 scores on the ground.

Hines-Allen, Jacksonville’s 2019 first-round pick, set the team’s single-season sack record with 17.5 last season, bringing his career total to 45 sacks, paired with 53 tackles for loss, nine forced fumbles, one interception, eight defended passes and 251 total tackles.

Oluokun, who signed with Jacksonville in 2022 after four seasons with Atlanta, has compiled 357 total tackles including 20 for loss, 4.5 sacks, three forced fumbles, one interception and 11 defended passes with the Jaguars.

Engram, also a 2022 free-agent signee, finished last season with the second-most receptions in one year in Jaguars history, with 114.

After spending the first five seasons of his career with New York, Engram has posted 187 receptions for 1,729 tards and eight touchdowns with Jacksonville. He is on pace to surpass his reception total with the Giants in three seasons with the Jaguars.

Cooke has operated as Jacksonville’s starting punter since his 2018 seventh-round selection by the club, averaging 47.1 yards per attempt with 162 punts pinned inside the 20-yard line thus far.

Jacksonville will kick off its season at Miami on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.

5 Jaguars who were 2024 Pro Bowl Games snubs

Two Jaguars players earned Pro Bowl nods, but there are a few more players who should’ve joined them.

The Jacksonville Jaguars had just two players on the list of 88 who earned 2024 Pro Bowl honors: outside linebacker Josh Allen and long snapper Ross Matiscik.

There’s still a chance that other Jacksonville players will eventually join that duo. Last year, zero Jaguars earned Pro Bowl honors on the initial roster announcements, but quarterback Trevor Lawrence and return specialist Jamal Agnew after injuries and the Super Bowl opened up more spots.

Ideally for the Jaguars, they’d have zero players participating in February and the team would instead be preparing for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.

Until then or a time when more Jaguars are added to the rosters, here are xxx players who didn’t deserve to be left out Wednesday:

6 Jaguars finish top 10 in fan voting for 2024 Pro Bowl Games

Hours ahead of the rosters for the 2024 Pro Bowl Games being announced, the NFL released the list of players who got the most fan votes.

The rosters for the 2024 Pro Bowl Games will be announced Wednesday night at 8 p.m. ET.

Ahead of the announcement, the NFL released the list of the players who received the most votes from fans and it included six members of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Fan voting accounts for a third of the calculation for Pro Bowl nods with votes from players and coaches accounting for the other two-thirds.

So although the fan vote results don’t necessarily mean a player will earn a spot in the Pro Bowl Games, it’s a great start. With the roster announcements just hours away, here are the six Jaguars player who finished top 10 at their position in fan votes:

7 Jaguars are top 10 at their position in early Pro Bowl voting

Which Jaguars players are you hoping to see in the 2024 Pro Bowl Games?

After just over a week of Pro Bowl Games voting, there are seven Jacksonville Jaguars players in the top 10 at their position.

Tom Pelissero of NFL Network tweeted the full list of voting leaders as of noon Tuesday, eight days after the polling opened Monday, Nov. 27. Voting will continue until Dec. 25.

While there are seven Jaguars in the mix with just under three weeks left, the public vote counts for just a portion of the eventual tally. The votes of fans, players, and coaches each count for a third to determine the final rosters.

Here are the seven who are currently top 10 vote-getters:

Trevor Lawrence: Of course we have carts, I chose not to use one

Trevor Lawrence set the record straight about the Jaguars not carting him to the locker room.

Trevor Lawrence set the record straight Wednesday: the Jacksonville Jaguars could’ve carted him to the locker room. He was the one who decided to make the long walk.

“We talked about getting a cart and I was gonna get a cart and I’m standing there, already on the sideline at that point, the tunnel is right there, I just wanted to get off the field and get out of there,” Lawrence said. “I felt like I could get off. I said ‘you’re good, don’t bring it, I’m going in.’

“Once I got in there, I’m like ‘this is pretty long walk.’ I was already there, they asked again if I wanted a cart, and I was like ‘no, I’m gonna make it.’ I didn’t know there was cameras in the tunnel.”

The video of Lawrence making the trek through the tunnels caused a bit of drama from viewers, who were baffled to see the Jaguars’ franchise quarterback struggling to make the long walk.

Colin Cowherd of FOX Sports even went so far as to call the team “a Mickey Mouse operation” for not bringing a cart out for Lawrence. That bothered Jaguars punter Logan Cooke enough to come to his team’s defense.

“Of course we have carts,” Lawrence said. “We have everything we need and I was the one that didn’t choose to take one. Put it on me, maybe that was a dumb, maybe I should’ve taken one, but it has nothing to do with us not having a cart. I don’t think that would happen in the National Football League, especially here with the crew that we have.”

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7 Jaguars most deserving of 2024 Pro Bowl Games votes

Which Jaguars players have your vote?

Voting for the 2024 Pro Bowl Games officially opened Monday and can be done right here.

Last year, despite earning an AFC South title and a playoff win over the Los Angeles Chargers, the Jacksonville Jaguars had zero players make the initial Pro Bowl roster. Eventually, injuries and the Super Bowl opened up enough spots that quarterback Trevor Lawrence and return specialist Jamal Agnew earned the honors.

The 2023 season should probably be different, though.

Unlike last year, the Jaguars won’t need to win five straight games to claw back above .500 and into the playoff picture. Jacksonville is rolling with an 8-3 record and plenty of deserving candidates.

In a conference with quarterbacks like C.J. Stroud, Josh Allen, Tua Tagovailoa, Patrick Mahomes, and Justin Herbert all putting up big numbers, it could take a lot for Lawrence to get another nod. But these seven Jaguars players deserve to get in when the rosters are announced later this season: