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Zero Jaguars players named to 2023 Pro Bowl roster

The Jaguars won’t have any players at the 2023 Pro Bowl.

The rosters for the 2023 Pro Bowl were announced Wednesday and the Jacksonville Jaguars were unsurprisingly absent from the AFC roster. The Chicago Bears are the only other team this season without a Pro Bowler.

While the Jaguars are in the midst of a resurgence and in the hunt for the AFC South title, few players had much of an argument for Pro Bowl honors. Among the notable omissions are quarterback Trevor Lawrence, cornerback Tyson Campbell, and punter Logan Cooke.

Lawrence, 23, has been nothing short of elite in recent weeks with 14 touchdown passes and only one interception in his last six games. Still, the bar for Pro Bowl honors in the AFC is high with star quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen also in the conference. The third spot went to Joe Burrow, despite Tua Tagovailoa leading all NFL players in Pro Bowl votes from fans.

Both Campbell and Cooke are also having stellar seasons, but don’t quite have the statistics to justify a spot in the Pro Bowl.

While Campbell has been stuck to opposing receivers like glue, he only has two interceptions on the year and has been credited with allowing five touchdown receptions. The four cornerbacks representing the AFC are Sauce Gardner, Pat Surtain II, Marlon Humphrey, and Xavien Howard.

Cooke has a career-best punting average of 50.6 yards, but the Tennessee Titans’ Ryan Stonehouse has him beat with a ridiculous 53.6-yard average. Despite those numbers, it was the Chiefs’ Tommy Townsend who earned Pro Bowl honors Wednesday.

Logan Cooke deserves Pro Bowl spot, says Jaguars special teams coordinator

Should Logan Cooke be a Pro Bowler?

The Jacksonville Jaguars appear unlikely to send any player to the Pro Bowl at the end of the 2022 season, but special teams coordinator Heath Farwell thinks that’d be a disservice to punter Logan Cooke.

“We’re able to watch a very, very talented punter and Pro Bowl talent, and hopefully this is his year,” Farwell said of Cooke in a Thursday press conference. “If it’s not, he deserves it. He’s a special player we’re lucky to have. I was fortunate to have him here, the Jacksonville Jaguars drafted him, and I just walk into a spectacular player.”

Cooke’s abilities were on full display during the 28-27 win over the Baltimore Ravens. After 70- and 68-yard punts both trickled into the end zone after they couldn’t quite be saved by the coverage unit, Daniel Thomas managed to track down another one that was downed at the two-yard line and counted as a 68-yarder.

“I see him do it every day,” Farwell said. “He’s super talented, he works at it every day. One is spectacular, let alone to have three of them, it’s pretty special. It’s something he works at all the time, and then to have [Thomas] go down there on that one at the two just made it even better.”

Through the first 12 weeks of the season, the only punter in the NFL (with at least 10 punts) who has recorded more yards per punt than Cooke’s 51.2-yard average is the Tennessee Titans’ Ryan Stonehouse with 53.1 yards. In the first update of Pro Bowl voting, Stonehouse was the leading vote getter among AFC punters.

Cooke, 27, was a seventh-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft and signed a four-year, $12 million contract extension with the Jaguars in March 2021.

Trevor Lawrence, Josh Allen among 5 Jaguars named team captains

The Jaguars elected five team captains Monday, including a pair of 2022 free agent acquisitions.

The Jacksonville Jaguars announced five players as team captains for the 2022 season, including second-year quarterback Trevor Lawrence and fourth-year pass rusher Josh Allen.

While neither Lawrence nor Allen were surprising choices after serving as captains during the 2021 season, they’re joined by free agent acquisitions Brandon Scherff and Foye Oluokun who are each captains after joining the Jaguars earlier this year. Fifth-year punter Logan Cooke was named a captain for the first time in his career to round out the group.

Scherff, 30, was a five-time Pro Bowler with Washington and a team captain prior to joining the Jaguars in free agency. Oluokun spent his first four seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and is a captain for the first time in his NFL career.

On Friday, new Jaguars coach Doug Pederson told reporters that he wouldn’t pick the team captains and that thinks it’s important that players elect the leaders on their own.

Last season, Jacksonville had seven team captains. While linebacker Myles Jack was released and center Brandon Linder retired, three players — cornerback Shaquill Griffin, safety Rayshawn Jenkins, and receiver Marvin Jones — didn’t earn the honor this season after serving as captains a year ago.

Jags place punter Logan Cooke on injured reserve

The Jags already lost one of the league’s best specialists in Jamal Agnew, and now they will be without punter Logan Cooke for the rest of the season.

The Jacksonville Jaguars were already without one of their best special teams players in receiver and returner Jamal Agnew, and heading forward, they will be without another specialist with Pro Bowl potential in Logan Cooke. On Tuesday, the team placed him on injured reserve due to a right knee injury, which means his 2021 season has come to an end.

There were some concerns for Cooke’s situation entering this week as Jags interim coach Darrell Bevell said he’d be out for an unknown amount of time. However, after further evaluating the injury, the Jags just decided to place him on IR a day later.

“So, we will not have him,” Bevell said on Monday. “He’s in jeopardy of missing a game.”

Cooke went to Twitter to express that he hated that the season ended on such a bad note, but said he appreciated the fanbase and was looking forward to 2022.

Cooke ended his season with 64 punts and had a 47.3 net average. Overall he punted for a total of 3,026 yards and his longest went for 68 yards.

No Jaguars players selected to the Pro Bowl for second consecutive season

Though players like punter Logan Cooke may have had a chance, Jacksonville is still looking for its first Pro Bowler since 2019.

For the second-straight season, no Jacksonville Jaguars players were selected to the Pro Bowl. This shouldn’t come as a major surprise, as the team has struggled all season and sits at 2-12. With just a 3-27 record over the last two seasons and one of the youngest rosters in football, there haven’t been a lot of clear standouts.

The best player on the team is arguably running back James Robinson, who was named to the Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie team last year after breaking the NFL record for scrimmage yards from an undrafted rookie. However, injuries and limited carries have held him in check this season, though he has one more touchdown already than he did last year with eight, and his average (4.7) is slightly improved from last season.

Perhaps the Jacksonville player with the best argument was punter Logan Cooke, whose average of 47.1 on 63 punts was above average but not elite. However, 28 of those punts were downed inside the 20, which is the third-best mark in the NFL. Las Vegas punter A.J. Cole was the AFC’s Pro Bowl selection instead.

The last time the Jags had a player make the Pro Bowl was 2019, when it got DJ Chark, Calais Campbell, and Josh Allen in. Chark, who is a pending free agent in 2022, and Allen remain on the team. However, Chark’s season ended Week 4 against Cincinnati after he sustained a broken ankle early in the game.

As for Allen, he had a bit of a sophomore slump in 2020, but he’s been better this season, totaling a career-high 60 tackles already with 5.5 sacks. However, he’s not on pace to match his 10.5 sack total from his rookie season.

This is a Jags team that still needs to build more talent, and until that happens, this squad likely won’t have many players earning postseason honors.

Jaguars extend punter Logan Cooke

The Jags continued to make moves this weekend, but on Saturday, they elected to focus on a player from the 2020 roster.

The free agency period isn’t solely about bringing in players from other teams but is also about extending some who’ve outplayed their current contracts. That’s what the Jacksonville Jaguars were thinking this weekend as they announced that punter Logan Cooke was extended. 

Per Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the deal was a four-year extension worth $12 million.

Cooke, 25, was drafted by the Jags in the seventh round (No. 247 overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft out of Mississippi State. Due to the Jags struggling on offense over recent times, he’s seen the field often and has been one of the league’s better punters in the process.

Since joining the Jags, Cooke has accumulated 217 punts and has garnered a 42.9 net punting average, good for the highest figure in Jags history. That is good for fourth in the NFL currently when looking at averages since he was drafted.

Extending Cooke locks up the young punter, who is a part of one of the better special teams units in football when considering the accuracy of kicker Josh Lambo, too. With Urban Meyer now running the show, the group could make a big leap in 2021 as he’s been huge on special teams performance throughout his career.

Jags activate punter Logan Cooke of Reserve/Covid-19

Logan Cooke appears to be on his way back to the Jags’ roster after missing time on the Reserve/COVID-19 list.

After missing their last two games, the Jacksonville Jaguars have activated punter Logan Cooke off of their Reserve/ COVID-19 list, which points to him resuming his duties Week 17. His return comes as the Jags are preparing for their season finale against the Indianapolis Colts.

Cooke didn’t surface on Week 15’s injury report but missed their trip to Baltimore with what the team labeled as an illness. As a result, the Jags had to abruptly let kicker Aldrick Rosas handle the duties at punter. He registered three punts on the day and averaged 36.7 yards a punt.

Afterward, the Jags signed veteran punter Dustin Colquitt for Week 16’s home game against the Chicago Bears. In his Jags debut, Colquitt registered six punts for 272 yards, which was good for an average of 45.3 yards per punt.

When the Jags placed Cooke on Reserve/ COVID-19 on Dec. 22, they also signed Cameron Nizialek to their practice squad.

Cooke will return to the roster after putting together a pretty solid season where he’s averaged 47.6 yards per punt in 2020. He’s also pinned teams within the 10-yard line or less 11 times this season, which is a total that is good for second in the league.

Jags place punter Logan Cooke on Reserve/ COVID-19 list, sign Cameron Nizialek to practice squad

The Jacksonville Jaguars made a roster move on special teams Monday by placing punter Logan Cooke on their Reserve/ COVID-19 list. The transaction came after Cooke didn’t travel with the Jags to Baltimore Sunday because of an illness and was ruled …

The Jacksonville Jaguars made a roster move on special teams Monday by placing punter Logan Cooke on their Reserve/ COVID-19 list. The transaction came after Cooke didn’t travel with the Jags to Baltimore Sunday because of an illness and was ruled out 24 hours before kickoff with the Ravens.

Kicker Aldrick Rosas was the player to step up on short notice in Cooke’s place, registering three punts for 36.7 yards on the day.

The team also announced that they would be signing punter Cameron Nizialek to their practice squad, which means he’ll be on standby for Week 16’s game against the Chicago Bears. He’ll join the Jags practice squad roster after spending time with the Baltimore Ravens, Atlanta Falcons, and the AAF’s Atlanta Legends.

As a collegiate player, Nizialek played for Columbia University (2014-16) and the University of Georgia (2017). While with the Bulldogs, he ranked ninth nationally with a gross punting average of 45.0.

Jaguars to play Ravens without a punter

The Baltimore Ravens might have to defend more fourth-down attempts in Week 15 as the Jaguars won’t have their starting punter.

The Baltimore Ravens vs. Jacksonville Jaguars game just got infinitely more interesting. The Jaguars announced they’ll be playing Sunday without a punter after ruling out Logan Cooke with an illness.

It appears Jacksonville will turn to kicker Aldrick Rosas, though there’s no backup punter officially listed on the team’s depth chart, so everyone could be surprised. But the lack of Cooke will also have an impact on kicks as well since he has been the holder. Jacksonville could turn to quarterbacks Gardner Minshew or Mike Glennon to be the holder Sunday, but once again, there isn’t a clear backup plan in place.

While one would think this is a huge blow against the Jaguars and should help propel the Ravens to victory, don’t be so fast. At 1-12 and with very little to lose, don’t be shocked if Jacksonville attempts a few fourth-down conversions over the course of the game, putting more pressure on Baltimore’s ailing defense to stop them.

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Jags punter Logan Cooke ruled out vs. Ravens with an illness

The Jags will be without a punter Sunday against the Ravens as Logan Cooke missed their trip to Baltimore due to an illness.

The Jacksonville Jaguars ruled just one player out on their final injury report from Friday in cornerback Sidney Jones, but one more player will be joining him. That player is punter Logan Cooke, who didn’t travel with the Jags to Baltimore due to an illness.

Initially, the Jags announced that cook was ruled questionable early Saturday night, then listed him as questionable not too soon afterward.

The Jags don’t have a backup punter listed for emergency purposes on their depth chart, so it’s unknown as to whom will take over for Cooke Sunday. It’s possible kicker Aldrick Rosas will handle all of the kicking duties against the Ravens, while Gardner Minshew II or Mike Glennon could be the holder for the Jags on extra-point attempts and field goals.

Cooke has been a good special teams player for the Jags this year, averaging 47.6 yards per punt in 2020. He’s pinned teams within the 10-yard line or less 11 times this season, which is a total that is good for second in the league.