The Jaguars are in that late-camp stretch where every rep starts to feel heavier, and Tuesday at the Miller Electric Center gave them a little bit of everything. There was a clear bright spot in Chris Rodriguez Jr., a major push from rookie guard Emmanuel Pregnon, another strong day from cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, and enough uneven offense to leave the whole thing looking like a mixed bag.
Rodriguez may have had his most active day of camp so far, at least when you stack it up against Bhayshul Tuten. That doesn’t necessarily point to a bigger role down the road - the Jaguars still appear headed toward a running back by committee - but it did stand out because the team has had him on a Week 1 track all along for the Cleveland Browns.
“Well, I don't know that it's necessarily changed the plan a whole lot because we've had plans for C-Rod since the moment he's gotten here," Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski said after practice about Rodriguez and his training camp role. "But I think it's just allowed us to practice some of those things that we know we want to highlight him in a little bit more that maybe we had held back on earlier because you are focused on your personnel. "
Pregnon’s rise is harder to ignore by the day. The third-round pick took first-team reps at left guard for the second straight practice and looked sturdy again as a run-blocker against the Jaguars’ starting front seven. I still wouldn’t rush to pencil him in as an early starter, but injuries along the offensive line have opened a real door for him.
His work has also clearly caught the staff’s attention beyond what he’s doing between the lines.
"He puts in a lot of extra work on his own time. I see him in here at the facility.
I'll take a stroll downstairs and it's 10 o'clock at night and I'm expecting it's only the cleaning crews around, but it's Emmanuel rolling around through the locker room, just finishing up his recovery work," Udinski said. "So, I probably don't have enough good things to say about a guy like that.”
Muhammad keeps showing up, too. The second-year corner has been one of Jacksonville’s most consistent practice performers since the spring, and Tuesday brought another reminder of why. He picked off Trevor Lawrence and added another pass breakup, continuing a pattern of making plays on the ball.
Last weekend against the Saints, Muhammad showed there’s still work to do, which is true for any young defender. But the bigger picture has been hard to miss: since the Jaguars first took the field in 2026, he has made more plays than not, and Tuesday might have been one of his strongest sessions yet. He’s getting awfully close to looking like a lock for the 53-man roster.
Injuries have also made this a trickier week to evaluate than it should be. The Jaguars have been hit hard enough to disrupt the usual late-camp rhythm, and while only two names - Patrick Mekari and LeQuint Allen - appear likely to matter beyond the short term, it still changes the feel of practice.
The offense also didn’t finish Tuesday on a high note. Jacksonville has been uneven in simulated end-of-half situations throughout camp, and while some of that has been on the offense, the defense clearly won the day this time. There was too much pressure and too many incompletions for it to be dismissed as just a dominant defensive showing with the offense powerless to respond.
For one practice this late in camp, that’s enough to tell you where the sharp edges still are.
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