• Jaguars 2024 NFL Draft: Grades and reactions to Brian Thomas Jr. at 23

    We’ve gathered Day 1 grades and reactions from several national media outlets to provide a fresh perspective on how the Jacksonville Jaguars fared in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. You can find all our coverage of the event at our Jaguars draft hub. From Underdog Fantasy Hayden Winks’s grade: A+ “I like him a lot. I like guys that can really run,” former Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said on their live draft show (timestamp: 2:36:20). “They desperately needed some guy to take...

  • Jaguars 2024 NFL Draft: Grade the Brian Thomas Jr. pick!

    Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Jacksonville Jaguars fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Jaguars fans how would you grade the team’s selection of Brian Thomas Jr. at 23rd overall? It’s never a bad thing when Trevor Lawrence is named a “winner” after Jacksonville makes a move. That was the case last night after the Jaguars selected Thomas Jr., the...

  • Baalke Ball: Studying the Jaguars GM’s historic approach to drafting

    Mock drafts are fun, but relentlessly unreliable. I say this after literally just publishing one for this very site, so feel free to call me a hypocrite! But if you bat at even 20% of correct picks on your first round mock, you’re outpunching almost everyone in the draft community. Predicting who the Jacksonville Jaguars will take at 17 when we don’t know what 16 other teams will do before them is almost impossible - and let’s not even get started on Days 2 and 3. But what can we learn from the...