
Los Jaguars no hacen visitas oficiales porque no quieren que una reunión breve cambie su evaluación de un jugador. Según Michael DiRocco de ESPN, prefieren basarse en un proceso de scouting más largo y completo.
Sí, los Jaguars tampoco realizan visitas top 30. El artículo explica que quieren evitar que una charla de 15 a 20 minutos influya en su opinión sobre un prospecto.
Los Jaguars confían en un proceso de evaluación de largo plazo que puede empezar cuando el jugador llega a la universidad. Valoran mucho más años de seguimiento que una entrevista de un solo día.
No, no es nueva bajo James Gladstone. El artículo señala que el equipo tampoco hizo visitas el año pasado.
Los Rams usan un enfoque similar, según el artículo. Jacksonville sigue un sistema que Los Ángeles ha empleado con éxito durante la última década aproximadamente.
It's that time of the year, with the NFL draft near, that we see report after report of prospects visiting with teams. However, we won't see the Jacksonville Jaguars among those reports.
So why not?
Prior to the NFL combine, which James Gladstone and Liam Coen also did not attend, ESPN's Michael DiRocco provided some insight into why the Jaguars take this unique approach with pre-draft visits.
"So what about the prospect visits?" DiRocco began. "The chance to sit down with the players at the combine? Well, the Jaguars don't want to conduct any of those, and they don't want to conduct any top 30 visits either because they don't want their opinion of a player to be changed or altered in any way based on a 15-20 minute visit. This is a system that the Rams use, and they've used it quite successfully, as you can see by their success over the last decade or so."
Each draft cycle, every team can have up to 30 prospects in for visits at the team facility. It's an opportunity for teams to do medical checks if needed, walk through film, and get to know the player.
The scouting process for one prospect is an endeavor that is years long -- it really begins once a player sets foot on campus. Understandably so, Gladstone is going to value that process and all of the work that's put in over a one-day interview.
This isn't new for the Jaguars under Gladstone. The team didn't have visits last year either.
Generally speaking, Gladstone prefers to operate under-the-radar during the pre-draft process, trusting the Jaguars' processes and maintaining any sort of advantage that they can.
This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: 2026 NFL draft: Jaguars won't host any prospects on official visits
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