The Jacksonville Jaguars’ first injury report of Week 4 put the spotlight on a place that figures to matter a lot against Cincinnati: cornerback.
Jacksonville heads to face the Bengals after Sunday’s win over the New England Patriots, and the timing matters. A matchup with Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins always puts stress on the secondary, and Wednesday’s report showed three Jaguars cornerbacks listed among the team’s injured players.
Jarrian Jones was a full participant in practice but appeared with a hip injury. Christian Braswell was limited with a knee issue, and Montaric Brown was limited because of a hamstring injury. Brown’s hamstring could help explain why he logged his lowest snap count in Week 3 since Week 5 of the 2025 season, when he was still working back from a training camp injury.
Braswell has shown up on injury reports for the past few weeks, but Jones and Brown are new additions. That makes the situation worth watching closely, especially with the Bengals coming up next and Chase looming as the biggest threat. Jones and Brown have played the most snaps of any Jaguars cornerbacks through the first three weeks, and Jacksonville will need that group as close to full strength as possible to handle Chase and Higgins.
“When they just dish him out a little flat route, I mean, that could go to the house. They obviously have a ton of chemistry and continuity together, a lot of trust, a lot of accumulated reps in not just practice, but in games. It's hard to find better," Jaguars head coach Liam Coen said about Chase Wednesday.
The Jaguars will need more than one answer to slow him down. Chase was a problem the last time these teams met, in Week 2 last season, when he drew 16 targets and finished with 14 catches for 165 yards and a touchdown. Most of that production came with Jake Browning in the game.
For now, only Travis Hunter and Jourdan Lewis are officially 100% healthy in the cornerback room, which leaves the unit under a brighter microscope heading into Sunday.
Jacksonville also listed several other players as limited on Wednesday: running back LeQuint Allen (hip), defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton (back), wide receiver Jakobi Meyers (thumb), defensive tackle Albert Regis (elbow), and offensive tackle Cole Van Lanen (knee).
Van Lanen, Allen, and Meyers have been limited throughout the season and are expected to play Sunday, just as they have in recent weeks. Hamilton hurt his back in Week 2 against the Denver Broncos, then returned to that game. He was limited all week after that but still played in Week 3 against the Patriots without an injury designation, and he turned in a strong performance.
Regis missed the Patriots game because of the elbow injury, though Coen sounded confident Monday that he would be available. “I would think ready to go this week, I would think," Coen said.
"We'll have to look at what it looks like in practice this week. I got to see what it looks like on Wednesday.
It wasn't something that should be out, more than this past game. We were kind of being smart with him this week.
He probably could've gone. I'll get a better idea Wednesday what he looks like at practice.”
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