This week, we asked Jacksonville Jaguars fans to grade the team’s 2026 NFL Draft.
Over half of the respondents gave Jacksonville a “D” or “F” grade.
The Jaguars’ draft wasn’t very well received by national media, either.
If draft grades mattered, the Jags would be in danger of dropping out of the league.
🚨 2026 NFL Draft Team GradesIn my annual draft grades round-up, I have compiled 24 different evaluations and calculated the GPA for all 32 teams.I sorted the evaluations by GPA as well. From left (soft) to right (hard graders).Thanks to all who give out grades every year! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/VysunPaW9H
Even with the caveat that the team didn’t have a top-50 pick due to last year’s Travis Hunter trade, the process from general manager James Gladstone and company was confounding. They reached aggressively without considering other teams’ boards, and the prospects they did select generally don’t have high ceilings.
Maybe that latter point has to do with the relative weakness of this year’s talent pool. Still, after acquiring the reigning Heisman Trophy winner in the previous offseason, this draft class felt underwhelming. Public faith in Jacksonville’s new-ish regime is understandably wavering.
The Jaguars currently have +2500 odds to win Super Bowl LXI, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Gladstone SMH. We overdrafted every player except Pregnon. The boy wonder GM has a case of “look at how much smarter I am than the rest of you”. This draft was extremely disappointing in a lot of ways. At least we got lucky with Pregnon.
Well as long as the Jagurs feel good about the “process”……Hopefully it’s not a 💩 sandwich in disguise.
On paper I couldn’t find myself giving better than a D grade ONLY because I thought the Pregnon pick was a slam dunk. The reach for Boerkircher was Gene Smith PTSD inducing trauma. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the same look of WTF was that I had when we took Alualu 10th overall.
Feels like one of the weakest drafts in a history of very weak drafts for this franchise. As long as they do not proof otherwise this is easily a D.
I mean if this is the new standard for drafting I hope we trade away all 1-4 round picks for players this season and stick to late rounders and undrafted players and hope our coaches develop them as they did last year.
This is such a difficult question. As we all know, a Draft class should be evaluated over time. Consensus Draft boards are what they are, consensus and it’s hard to assess how much time and study these so called experts have put into them versus quickly copying profiles and thoughts from things they read elsewhere. There’s nothing wrong with doing things differently, it can even be refreshing and setting trends. It will all depend on the product on the field in two to three years.
My initial thought was to give this class a D. The only reason I didn’t was because of the Guard and 2nd TE selection. I still feel that we didn’t address the defensive line by getting players ready to contribute immediately. The DT was undersized and overdrafted. Wesley Williams was just a guy at Duke. I don’t understand the safety pick when we drafted 2 last year. It was one of the worst drafts in franchise history in my opinion. Looking back last years class was just ok as well. I’m not ready to say that Gladstone has elite drafts.
Picking up a potential round 1 guard on round is the only reason I gave them a D instead of an F.
Going against the consensus rarely works. Using your top pick to get a guy three rounds above consensus means the other guy you could have picked goes away to be replaced by the guy you drafted three rounds later. This draft may have set an NFL record for most slots given up vs. consensus.