The Jaguars moved fast to steady one of the weirdest little emergencies in football.
With Week 6 looming and a trip to London against the Houston Texans next, Jacksonville is set to sign veteran long snapper Jacob Bobenmoyer, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. The timing matters because the Jaguars were forced to get creative in Week 5, turning to nose tackle Davon Hamilton to handle long snaps after Ross Matiscik was injured.
That stopgap appears to have done its job. Matiscik is not expected to go on injured reserve, which gives Jacksonville some room to breathe.
With the bye week coming next week, the Jaguars can let him sit out Sunday and still avoid losing him for a longer stretch than necessary. If they had placed him on IR today, he would have missed Sunday plus the first three games of the bye week, since the bye does not count as one of the four required missed weeks.
For Jacksonville, that flexibility is a big deal. Matiscik is more than just a snapper who does his job cleanly; he’s also a real factor on coverage teams because of his tackling ability.
The less time the Jaguars spend without him, the better for Heath Farwell’s special teams group. That’s why this move looks like a clean piece of roster management rather than a panic button.
Bobenmoyer brings some evidence that he can handle work on coverage units, too. He has posted at least three tackles in every season and has totaled 22 tackles in 97 games over the last six years. By comparison, Matiscik had 22 tackles in six season before entering the 2026 season.
No one is pretending Bobenmoyer is going to be Matiscik on coverage teams. As the source says, nobody is. But he should be able to give the Jaguars something there, and that seems to be the point: find a veteran who can keep the operation stable and chip in a little bit on special teams.
And then there’s Hamilton, who deserves his own slice of credit. He hasn’t just been one of the best defensive tackles in football this season; he was also thrown into long-snapping duty and handled it in a one-score game against the Eagles.
In a 19-17 win, that kind of emergency work matters. Hamilton kept the Jaguars afloat when they needed him most.
So while Jacksonville won’t have to keep improvising at the position this week, the team got through the crisis with one big win, a calm hand from Hamilton, and now a move to lock in a full-time snapper before the Texans game.
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