Former Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar is headed to Jacksonville.
Aguilar was one of 18 undrafted free agents to agree to terms with the Jaguars after the draft ended on Saturday. Aguilar initially transferred from Appalachian State to UCLA before the 2025 season, but then moved on to Tennessee after Nico Iamaleava chose to transfer from the Volunteers to the Bruins.
Aguilar threw for 3,565 yards, 24 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while completing 67.3 percent of his passes.
Trevor Lawrence, Nick Mullens and Carter Bradley are the other quarterbacks on the Jacksonville roster.
The Jaguars also announced agreements with Cal defensive lineman T.J. Bollers, Utah State wide receiver Brady Boyd, South Dakota State wide receiver Alex Bullock, Troy tight end Ethan Conner, UCLA offensive lineman Garrett DiGiorgio, Michigan State defensive end Quindarius Dunnigan, Colorado cornerback Preston Hodge, Cincinnati defensive lineman Jalen Hunt, North Carolina State cornerback Devon Marshall, Virginia safety Devin Neal, North Texas offensive lineman Jimto Obidegwu, Texas-Permian Basin wide receiver Ben Patterson, Penn State wide receiver Trebor Pena, Virginia running back J’Mari Taylor, South Carolina defensive end Bryan Thomas Jr., Vanderbilt offensive lineman Jordan White, and Montana wide receiver Michael Wortham.
Day 2 of the 2026 NFL Draft has come to an end with the Jaguars picking the last player of the night.
At No. 100 overall, Jacksonville selected safety Jalen Huskey out of Maryland.
Huskey spent his first two collegiate seasons at Bowling Green before transferring to Maryland in 2024. He was a Second-team All-Big Ten honoree in 2025, having recorded 72 total tackles with 1.5 tackles for loss and four interceptions.
The Bills are currently set to start the final day of the 2026 NFL Draft at pick No. 101 in the fourth round.
The Jaguars traded their 2026 first-round pick as part of a package to move up to No. 2 overall to select Travis Hunter in 2025. They had a long wait to make their first pick of 2026.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen joked Thursday that he “waited a lot longer before,” referring to 2022 when he was offensive coordinator of the Rams. Los Angeles didn’t make its first pick until No. 104 overall, the next-to-last pick in the third round.
The Jaguars had only to wait until 56th overall this year.
They used the choice on Texas A&M tight end Nate Boerkircher.
The Jaguars have only four players under contract at the position, with Brenton Strange, Quintin Morris and Hunter Long all scheduled for free agency in 2027. (Strange will return.)
Boerkircher, a one-year starter for the Aggies, was a Y tight end with 69 percent of snaps in line. He made a career-high 19 catches for 198 yards and three touchdowns in his only season in College Station after transferring from Nebraska.
The Jaguars have 11 total picks, including four in the top 100.
Last year, the Jaguars gave up this year’s first-round pick as part of the effort to move up three spots to get Travis Hunter. This year, the Jaguars may be using a prior first-round pick to get another one.
As the draft approaches, we’re told that the Jaguars may be trying to lay the foundation for a potential trade into the bottom of round one. The potential bait could include receiver Brian Thomas Jr.
Thomas has been a consistent subject of trade chatter. Last month, G.M. James Gladstone called such talk “fraudulent.”
A first-round pick in 2024, Thomas had a strong rookie season — 87 catches, 1,282 yards, 10 touchdowns in 17 games. In 14 games last year, Thomas had 48 catches for 707 yards and two touchdowns.
In 2025, receiver Parker Washington led the team with 58 catches and 847 receiving yards. In nine games after a trade from the Raiders, receiver Jakobi Meyers had 42 catches for 483 yards.
Hunter becomes the wild card. He was primarily a receiver a year ago. If that continues, he’d join Washington and Meyers as the top three options at the position, if the rumors end up not being quite so fraudulent.
For whatever reason, Thomas didn’t have the same impact under Liam Coen. With both the coach and G.M. who were with the team when Thomas was drafted gone, he becomes an asset the Jaguars could utilize in an effort to crash the round-one party.
Much of it depends on whether a player the Jaguars covet is available as the first round moves past the first 20 picks or so — and whether there’s a team in that window that would prefer to trade its first-round pick for Thomas.
The reality is that every first-round pick, when used, becomes essentially a trade for that player. The question is whether a team would rather trade that pick for an unproven incoming player, or whether that team would trade the pick for a player who made a significant splash in his first NFL season.
For now, the Jaguars won’t be on the clock until the 24th pick in round two, after 55 other players are selected. They have ten other picks, including three third-round selections.
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.
