26. Jacksonville Jaguars
Current cap space: (minus-$3,419,464)
Primary free agents: EDGE Yannick Ngakoue
In December, the Jaguars fired Executive VP of Football Operations Tom Coughlin for at least two reasons: multiple grievances filed against him by Jaguars players with the NFLPA, and a two-season stretch in which the team went 11-21 after a 10-6 season in 2017 when the Jags reached the AFC Championship Game and played the Patriots tight in the first half before everything fell apart. Head coach Doug Marrone has to be on the hot seat as well, and owner Shad Khan has to be wondering where it all went wrong. Over the past three seasons, Jacksonville has fielded one of the league’s most talented defenses with enough good players on offense to partially overcome its quarterback schisms, led by Blake Bortles.
The ostensible answer was to sign Nick Foles to a four-year, $88 million contract before the 2019 season, but Foles missed nine games with a broken clavicle, and when he returned, he was so ineffective that he was benched in Week 13. The Jags may have backed into their actual quarterback of the future in sixth-round pick Gardner Minshew, the Washington State alum who had rough patches but showed talent and situational bravado this team hasn’t had since the days of David Garrard.