The Jaguars’ roster purge did what every NFL cutdown does: it scattered familiar names across the league, pushed a few back onto practice squads, and ended a couple of Jacksonville runs for good.
Some of the players the Jaguars waived or released last Sunday stuck around in Duval County. The club’s addition of 17 players to the practice squad allowed them to retain quarterback Nick Mullens, wide receivers Tim Jones, Austin Trammell, Michael Wortham, and Trebor Pena, safety Cam'Ron Silmon-Craig, cornerback Jabbar Muhammad, running back J'Mari Taylor, and linebackers Jack Kiser and Jalen McLeod.
But not everyone found a soft landing with Jacksonville.
One of the more notable departures was offensive lineman Chuma Edoga. He came in as a free-agent pickup and served as a key backup a year ago, but the return of Cole Van Lanen to practice and the arrival of Emmanuel Pregnon and Daniel Faalele on the offensive line made Edoga the odd man out. He has since signed with the Baltimore Ravens’ practice squad, officially closing the book on his time with the Jaguars.
The only player from Jacksonville’s waiver wire to be claimed was linebacker Yasir Abdullah, who landed with the Atlanta Falcons. That move gives Abdullah a 53-man roster spot in Atlanta after he couldn’t secure one in Jacksonville in his fourth season with the team.
Abdullah was a fifth-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft and spent three seasons with the Jaguars. He appeared in 29 games and made three starts, including 10 games last year when he logged nine tackles and mostly worked as a core special teamer. Jacksonville kept only five linebackers on this year’s roster, and even if the team had gone with six, Abdullah still likely would have been on the outside looking in.
DeeJay Dallas also moved on. The Jaguars signed him late last season while dealing with minor injuries at running back, and he did enough to hang around into the spring offseason program. This time, though, rookie J'Mari Taylor beat him out for the practice squad running back job, and Dallas has since joined the Minnesota Vikings’ practice squad.
Patrick Herbert, who spent last season on Jacksonville’s practice squad, is now with the Los Angeles Chargers’ practice squad. The brother of Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert had been with the Jaguars for two training camps as a former undrafted free agent, but he never saw game action last season and was not going to get a second year in Jacksonville.
Jalen Hunt is the last of the former Jaguars who landed on another team’s practice squad. He spent a brief stretch this week with the New England Patriots’ practice squad before being released on Thursday, and he is now a free agent.
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