Jacksonville Jaguars second-year defensive end BJ Green has set a pretty unusual goal for himself in training camp: he wants Liam Coen to have to pull him out of practice.
Coen said Friday that Green came right out and asked him, "'What does it take to get thrown out of practice?' And I'm like, what do you mean?
And he goes, 'Not in a bad way. In a way that I'm disrupting, to the point where you have to take me (out).'
He's on his mind in terms of wanting to take the next step, and we were laughing; it was a cool moment. But you can tell BJ wants to make an impact on this team.
He's worked his tail off to get to this point and we're seeing it every day."
It’s not a totally random line of thinking inside this Jaguars setup, either. Coen said he had a similar message for Travon Walker during his exit meeting after the 2025 season, telling him he wanted to get to the point where he had to remove Walker from practice because the offense couldn’t get anything done.
Green is trying to climb toward that same standard, and Josh Hines-Allen says the work is showing up. Hines-Allen pointed to Green’s progress against the run, even while acknowledging there’s still room to sharpen the pass-rush finish.
"He's done a great job. Something we've been stressing with him is the run game.
His get-off in the pass rush, we all appreciate; we gotta work with him on the top of the rush a little bit more, but his ability so far, especially the last two days, of setting vertical edges in the run game, that's been something, you look at him, he's explosive, he can get underneath your pads. He's kind of a problem for tight ends, especially at the point of attack when he can get underneath them.
I've been very pleased with him."
For now, Green is battling Danny Striggow, Wesley Williams, and Zach Durfee for the rotational defensive end snaps behind Hines-Allen and Walker.
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