The Jaguars formally exercised the fifth-year option on Anton Harrison’s contract for 2027, the team announced on Monday.
General Manager James Gladstone announced last month that the team would pick up the one-year fully guaranteed option for $19 million on the right tackle’s deal.
The Jaguars hope to sign Harrison to a long-term deal.
Harrison has started all 49 regular-season and playoff games he has played since Jacksonville selected him with the 27th pick of the 2023 draft.
He played 15 games in 2025.
Despite Dianna Russini’s recent resignation from The Athletic, the company continues to review her reporting in the aftermath of the photos with Patriots coach Mike Vrabel that emerged twelve days ago. Since 2022, the year before she joined The Athletic, Russini has had one of the 50 ballots for the annual Associated Press/NFL awards and the All-Pro team.
Here’s a question we’ve gotten from multiple members of the media: Is the Associated Press reviewing her ballots as a result of recent developments?
The AP has not responded to two emails from PFT asking that specific question.
Previously, after three tries via email, the AP declined to release her full 2025 ballot.
That speaks to another odd quirk as it relates to the AP awards. In 2024, the AP did not tell the panel that the ballots would be released. After the 2024 awards were announced, all ballots were released. After the 2025 awards were announced, the AP did not release the ballots.
There’s obvious reason for curiosity as to Russini’s coach of the year ballot. Vrabel won the award, with 302 points and 19 first-place votes. Jaguars coach Liam Coen finished second, with 239 points and 16 first-place votes. Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald finished third, Bears coach Ben Johnson landed in fourth place, and 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was fifth.
Given the apparent relationship with Vrabel, based solely on the photos, there is clear interest in seeing Russini’s ballot. And it goes beyond whether she gave her first-place vote to Vrabel; if so, 18 others did. The question is where the other perceived candidates landed. For example, was Coen second? Was he fifth? Was he omitted from the ballot entirely?
It’s a basic, and fair, question. These are the official NFL awards. People wager money on them (for some reason). The process of voting requires a full commitment to set aside any relationship with the candidates (whatever the relationship may be) and make decisions detached from bias or agenda.
It’s possible there are no irregularities, especially since the AP released all ballots for the 2024 awards without telling the voters the ballots would be released. Russini complained about the 2024 disclosure in an appearance on Pardon My Take.
“I was out to dinner and my phone was blowing up with people in football very angry that I voted for people that I voted for,” she said, via Awful Announcing. “That stunk. I wish I knew that because — it would not have changed my vote — but I love Josh Allen, and I am avoiding him for a really long time.”
It’s unclear why that would be the case. In 2024, I voted for Lamar Jackson as the MVP, with Allen in second place. I got no pushback from any “people in football” for that decision, or any of the other votes on my ballot. And Allen later appeared on PFT Live.
Regardless, if The Athletic is reviewing her reporting, the AP arguably should be reviewing her ballots. And the NFL, which has made the AP awards the NFL’s official awards for the annual NFL Honors event, arguably should want that to happen. (The league did not respond to an email regarding this point.)
At a time when there has been much debate and discussion about various other aspects and ramifications of the original New York Post report, it’s appropriate to be curious about the specific contents of her awards ballots from 2022 through 2025. It’s arguably necessary for the entity that selects the panel of voters to act on that feeling.
The Jaguars have officially traded for defensive tackle Ruke Orhorhoro.
The team announced that they sent defensive tackle Maason Smith to Atlanta for Orhorhoro on Friday afternoon. The exchange of 2024 second-round picks was first reported earlier in the day.
Orhorhoro will not be teammates with offensive lineman Cooper Hodges when he reports for his first work with Jacksonville. The Jaguars announced that they have waived Hodges in the same release that confirmed the trade was done.
Hodges was a 2023 seventh-round pick in Jacksonville. He spent his rookie season on injured reserve and appeared in nine games in 2024 before landing on the physically unable to perform list for the 2025 campaign.
The Falcons and Jaguars have agreed to a swap of defensive linemen.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Atlanta has agreed to send defensive tackle Ruke Orhorhoro to Jacksonville in exchange for defensive tackle Maason Smith. Both players were second-round picks in 2024 with Orhorhoro going to the Falcons at No. 35 and Smith going to the Jags at No. 48.
Orhorhoro played in eight games as a rookie and all 17 games last season. He made eight starts and finished the season with 25 tackles and 3.5 sacks.
Smith played 24 games and started seven times over his first two seasons. He had 32 tackles and three sacks in those appearances.
The NFL has announced the names of the current and former players that will take part in next week’s draft by announcing second-round picks.
The list includes players associated with all 32 teams, including Cardinals running back James Conner. Conner has strong ties to the Pittsburgh area after playing for the Steelers and attending Pitt, which likely made him an easy choice as the Cardinals’ representative.
Former Bears tackle Jimbo Covert, former Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett, former Chiefs defensive lineman Bill Maas, current Vikings tackle Brian O’Neill, former Jets running back Curtis Martin, and former 49ers punter Andy Lee are other Pitt alums who are set to take part.
The hometown team will be represented by four players. Former Steelers Jerome Bettis and John Stallworth will be joined by Joey Porter Sr. and Jr. next Friday.
The other players taking part and their team affiliations appear below:
Falcons: Michael Turner
Ravens: Mark Ingram
Bills: Shane Conlan
Panthers: Jake Delhomme
Bengals: Ken Anderson
Browns: Phil Dawson
Cowboys: Drew Pearson
Broncos: T.J. Ward
Lions: Calvin Johnson
Packers: John Kuhn
Texans: Billy Miller
Colts: Pat McAfee
Jaguars: Paul Posluszny
Raiders: Matt Millen
Chargers: Shawne Merriman
Rams: Tavon Austin
Dolphins: Dwight Stephenson
Patriots: Deion Branch
Saints: Marques Colston
Giants: Osi Umenyiora
Eagles: Brian Westbrook
Seahawks: Cliff Avril
Buccaneers: Ronde Barber
Titans: Jeffery Simmons
Commanders: Mark Rypien
