The Jacksonville Jaguars had just two players on the list of 88 who earned 2024 Pro Bowl honors: outside linebacker Josh Allen and long snapper Ross Matiscik.
There’s still a chance that other Jacksonville players will eventually join that duo. Last year, zero Jaguars earned Pro Bowl honors on the initial roster announcements, but quarterback Trevor Lawrence and return specialist Jamal Agnew after injuries and the Super Bowl opened up more spots.
Ideally for the Jaguars, they’d have zero players participating in February and the team would instead be preparing for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.
Until then or a time when more Jaguars are added to the rosters, here are xxx players who didn’t deserve to be left out Wednesday:
TE Evan Engram
Engram not earning a spot is easily the biggest injustice for the Jaguars.
His 104 receptions this year lead all players at the position and made him just the eighth tight end ever to record a triple digit catch season. Browns tight end David Njoku, who earned a spot along with the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, has 81 receptions for 882 yards — two fewer than Engram.
The brutal irony of the situation is that Njoku may not have been in the spot if Jacksonville didn’t blow coverage against the Cleveland tight end twice in a December game.
CB Darious Williams
It’s tough sledding for AFC cornerbacks with Pat Surtain II, Sauce Gardner, Jalen Ramsey, and Denzel Ward earning the nod in the conference. That’s a stellar group, but Williams has more pass deflections and interceptions than any of them.
Quarterbacks this season have a 68.7 passer rating when they through Williams’ direction. That number is above 75 for Surtain, Gardner, and Ward.
P Logan Cooke
The Raiders’ A.J. Cole got the nod for the AFC for the third straight season, but Cooke has a higher net punting average, more punts inside the 20-yard line, and fewer punts that tumbled into the end zone for a touchback.
LB Foye Oluokun
Tackles aren’t everything, but they’re definitely something and Oluokun racks them up unlike any player in the NFL. He didn’t earn Pro Bowl honors when he led the league in the stat in the last two seasons and he didn’t get a nod this year either.
Oluokun has done more than just tackle. He’s added 2.5 sacks, three fumble recoveries, six pass deflections, and his first ever pick six.
Instead, inside linebacker honors in the AFC went to the Ravens’ duo of Roquan Smith and Patrick Queen.
RB Travis Etienne Jr
Etienne may have been pretty quiet in the latter half of the season, but he’s still recorded 1,397 yards from scrimmage and 12 total touchdowns. Both of those numbers are better than the Titans’ Derrick Henry, who received his fourth Pro Bowl nod.
The Jaguars’ third-year running back has more scrimmage yards than the Dolphins’ Raheem Mostert and double the touchdowns of the Bills’ James Cook, who occupy the other two spots.
