Carter Bradley’s return to Jacksonville has brought his football story full circle.
The Jaguars quarterback grew up around team training camp when his father, Gus Bradley, was the head coach, and now he’s back in the building as a player. Signed to Jacksonville’s practice squad in September 2025, Bradley is taking part in his first training camp with the team, and the setting clearly means something to him.
“I think, you know, last year on game day, it hit me a little bit more, just because that's where I spent most of the time. This wasn't here,” he said of the Miller Electric Center.
“I'm just walking through the halls and kind of smelling that, that aroma in there, brought back just waking up with my dad coming in here at 5 a.m. for training camp. And now I'm out here doing it.
So, man, it's such a blessing to be out here. What a great crew we have.
It's going to be a great year.”
Gus Bradley coached the Jaguars for three seasons beginning in 2013, when Carter Bradley was 13 years old. That stretch didn’t go well for Jacksonville, but the younger Bradley’s own path has been a different story so far.
He has stood out in training camp and appears to have a firm hold on the QB3 job. There’s at least a theoretical path for him to jump Nick Mullens for the backup spot, but it would take a huge swing: Bradley would need a near-perfect camp and preseason, and Mullens would have to struggle badly. That’s a tough ask, especially with the Jaguars valuing Mullens’ experience.
Even so, Bradley has already made himself useful in a meaningful way. Last season, he handled scout team duties against Jacksonville’s first-team defense, and he did it well enough to earn public praise from defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile.
“He's a stud. He's awesome.
He's been so good for us in terms of giving us the exact look -- even the communication of things at the line of scrimmage. He takes it so seriously.
He's got great leadership qualities at the line of scrimmage, and you can see him driving the scout guys,” Campanile said last season, adding, “He really does a great job of controlling the tempo of the practice, and giving us such an accurate look of, not only what the plays are gonna be, but the pre-snap process.”
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