Anton Harrison has already become one of the Jaguars’ most dependable players, and Jacksonville made that official this offseason by picking up his fifth-year option for the 2027 season.
The move locks in the right tackle through another year and reflects how quickly he has settled into a key role since arriving as a first-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. Harrison has played in 48 of 51 games since entering the league, and he has started every game he’s appeared in. For a team that needed stability on the edge, he has given Trevor Lawrence exactly that.
Harrison’s path to Jacksonville started in Washington, D.C., where he was born on Feb. 2, 2002 - 02-02-02, if you want to write it that way. It’s also Groundhog Day, and on the morning he was born, Punxsutawney Phil came out at Gobbler’s Knob, saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter.
The next day, Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl title when the Patriots beat the Rams 20-17 in Super Bowl XXXVI. Brady would go on to win seven championships before Harrison’s sophomore year of college ended.
Before football took over, Harrison was making noise in more than one sport at Archbishop Carroll High School. As a senior, he was listed at 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds and earned a spot in the 2019 Under Armour All-American Game.
He also played basketball, and in January 2018 he had a breakout moment on the hardwood when, as a sophomore who had been with the JV team just two weeks earlier, he joined the varsity squad and powered them to an 82-68 win over Friendship Tech High Prep Academy in the DMV Winter Classic. Harrison finished with 24 points, 15 rebounds and MVP honors.
He had major football offers coming out of Archbishop Carroll, with Penn State, Oklahoma and Maryland among the schools in the mix. Maryland also explored the idea of him playing both basketball and football for the Terps, but Harrison ultimately chose to focus on football and headed to Oklahoma.
At Oklahoma, he spent three seasons at offensive tackle from 2020-22 and grew into a playing weight around 310 pounds. He appeared in 34 games for the Sooners, playing nine as a freshman, 13 as a sophomore and 12 as a junior before declaring for the NFL Draft after that junior season.
Jacksonville had already identified a need at right tackle after Jawaan Taylor left for the Chiefs in free agency, and the draft-day path to Harrison took a couple of turns. The Jaguars opened with the No. 24 pick, traded it to the Giants for No. 25, a fifth-round pick at No. 160 and a seventh-round pick at No. 240, then moved No. 25 to the Bills for No. 27 and a fourth-round pick that became No.
- With that final first-round slot, they took Harrison.
The rookie deal followed: four years, $13,198,521, with a fifth-year option attached. Jacksonville exercised that option in April 2026, setting Harrison up for a fully guaranteed 2027 season worth $19,072,000.
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