Dane Jackson is gone, and Jacksonville's corner room hasn't gotten any less thin

Already been through this twice in the last few days, so I'll keep it short. Dane Jackson retired in late July without playing a snap for Jacksonville, about a month after signing a one-year free-agent deal. The secondary was counting on him as a depth piece. He's not coming.

What's left at cornerback is Keni-H Lovely, Jabbar Muhammad, and Preston Hodge. None of them carried meaningful snaps last season. That's not a knock on any individual — it's just the reality of where the room stands heading into camp. The Jaguars entered the offseason with secondary depth as a known concern, and losing Jackson before he ever practiced here made it worse without any corresponding addition to offset it.

The broader defensive picture isn't much more comfortable. The defensive tackle group is similarly thin on proven playing time. Jacksonville's offense — Lawrence, Etienne, Thomas, and now a healthy Travis Hunter back in the fold — gives this team a real ceiling. But the 2025 win total flattered the point differential a bit, and a defense that can't hold leads in close games would expose that gap quickly. My read is that the corner situation is the most urgent item still unresolved as camp gets going, and it doesn't look like it's about to resolve itself from within.