Jacksonville Jaguars: Biggest Fantasy Football Value No One Is Buying?

In fantasy football, certainty is King in the early rounds of drafts. But with certainty also comes a heafty price tag. The Jacksonville Jaguars’ roster offers some of the NFL’s most compelling mid-to-late round fantasy values heading into the 2026 season. An extremely crowded skill position room, paired with an unsettled backfield could make roster construction in coming fantasy drafts an extremely balanced tight rope walk for fantasy managers looking to find the right combination of targets from this Jacksonville roster.

Here is our position-by-position breakdown of the top fantasy-relevant Jacksonville Jaguars and where the market currently has them priced.

Jaguars Fantasy Avg Draft Position (ADP):*
• RB Bhayshul Tuten: Pick 61 (RB25)
• WR Brian Thomas Jr: Pick 70 (WR32)
• WR Parker Washington Jr: Pick 82 (WR37)
• QB Trevor Lawrence: Pick 90 (QB11)
• WR Jakobi Meyers: Pick 100 (WR42)
• WR/CB Travis Hunter: Pick 153 (WR49)
• RB Chris Rodriguez Jr: Pick 134 (RB44)
• TE Brenton Strange: Pick 149 (TE20)
• K Cam Little: Pick 198 (K4)
• Def Jacksonville Jaguars: Pick 208 (D9)

*Current ADP from FootballGuys Consensus Draft Board which includes 12 top fantasy football drafting sites (Yahoo, ESPN, NFL, Underdog, Draftkings, etc)

The Jaguars’ QB1 checks in at an overall pick of 90, making him the QB11 at his current ADP. Coming off a 4,007-yard, 29-touchdown season with nine additional rushing scores, Lawrence has clearly shown the ability to be one of the top fantasy quarterbacks in the NFL over the final ten weeks of 2025. Finishing 2025 as QB4, yet being priced at QB11, screams value for those who wait. With that 2025 year-one proof of concept on tape, yet just enough national distrust to lower his overall draft value, he could represent a genuine value at his current eighth round price in single-quarterback formats heading into Year 2 of the Liam Coen system.

2025 Trevor Lawrence

• QB Rushing Touchdowns: 2nd
• Passing Touchdowns: 4th
• Passing Yards: 6th
• QB Rushing Yards: 10th
• 2025 Weeks 6-18: QB1

However, with NFL quarterbacks, the schedule can often heavily impact perception and performance. And similar to their 2025 schedule, the 2026 Jaguars, lead by Lawrence will have to first overcome a gauntlet before their week seven bye week to enter the easiest stretch of their schedule. Following that bye, Lawrence has the easiest fantasy schedule for quarterbacks. Should he struggle early on, ttat could make him a possible week 4-5 trade candidate for those unable to draft him in the coming month. Jacksonville’s wide receivers also have the easiest projected schedule after the team’s bye week.

If not for Jacksonville’s wide receiver room, the backfield would likely be one of the most genuinely unsettled fantasy position groups on the team following Travis Etienne’s offseason departure to New Orleans. Bhayshul Tuten currently sits at an overall pick of 61, making him the RB25 and a sixth round pick. Meanwhile, Chris Rodriguez Jr, the thunder to Tuten’s lightning, is going 73 picks later at 134, slotting in as the RB44. Tuten clearly offers the higher ceiling with legitimate bell-cow potential and elite 4.32 speed, but a real threat lurks in the shadows with Rodriguez.

CRod, who played under Coen at Kentucky, will likely vulture a sizable share of the offense’s short-yardage and early down runs, making him a credible late-round bet for goal-line opportunities. That alone could place a meaningful cap on Tuten’s fantasy upside. Additionally, there rests an, albeit slimmer, possibility that Rodriguez could outright win the RB1 role, ending up as the leading rusher in this backfield. Coming off a reported offseason foot surgery, learning a similar, but new offense, with no on-grass experience to date, he also carries a backpack of risk. But, for a 12th round dart throw, you probably won’t find much better value, with true team-leading rusher potential than Rodriguez in 2026.

Jacksonville’s receiver room may truly be one of the deepest in football, while also being one of the most frustrating to draft from in fantasy football. With four options carrying legitimate target share arguments on a rotating weekly schedule, many questions linger on exaclty where this room will stabilize in 2026. Brian Thomas Jr is the WR32 at an overall pick of 70 (sixth round), while Parker Washington sits twelve spots behind him as the WR37 at pick 82 (seventh round). Jakobi Meyers comes in at WR42 at overall pick 100 (ninth round), while Travis Hunter rounds out the group as the WR49 at 153 (13th round).

Thomas is a bonafide bounce-back candidate, with true WR1 upside, coming off a down 2025. But, as the explosive threat for this offense, similar to Bhayshul Tuten, the cost of a sixth round pick, while Parker Washington “is down there somewhere” is undoubtedly a risk on betting on big plays week-to-week. Washington, the team’s most productive receiver over the final ten weeks of last season, may be the better value at his current price, while also offering similar WR1 upside, as a plug and play, season-long option. If guaging from the end of 2025, it’s hard not to believe that Washington could again have one of the team’s top receiving target shares in 2026.

Meyers offers the most reliable floor of the group as a consistent underneath option, especially in PPR (points-per reception) or points for first down leagues. His 2025 role, with a team-leading 24 percent target share isn’t set to go away any time soon. Meanwhile, Travis Hunter at WR49 is a high-upside lottery ticket, whose late-round cost is the primary reason the risk could be worth taking, given the uncertainty surrounding what his offensive snap count in 2026 may eventually be.

If Hunter’s role shifts primarily to defense, with even a 15-20 percent reduction of offensive snaps, he becomes primarily a waiver wire wide receiver option, best ball pickup, or IDP candidate in redraft leagues. However, if the Jaguars receiver room had to overcome an injury to either Washington or Thomas Jr, the Hunter selection could legitimately end up being a league-winning transaction with him shifting into a heavier targeted role. That opportunity results in an extremely wide swing of potential outcomes for team managers to ponder.

Brenton Strange is clearly locked in as Jacksonville’s TE1 following a three-year, $48 million extension and is currently going at an overall pick of 149, making him the TE20. He posted career highs across the board in 2025 with 46 catches, 540 yards, and three touchdowns in only 12 games played. From week 12, to end the 2025 regular season, Brenton ended the year on a TE8 pace.

The concern heading into 2026 is a thin one, but potentially, a real one. This 2026 offense may not be that offense where it matters most. With rookies Nate Boerkircher and Tanner Koziol both joining the TE room in a multi-tight end offense, just a handful of redirected red zone touches could be the difference between Strange being looked at, at years’ end, as a weekly must-start versus a borderline streamer at the thinnest position in fantasy football. At tight end, a touchdown dependent position, that’s how thin the margins are. And after seeing glimpses of Tanner Koziol’s red zone upside in OTAs and Mandatory Minicamp, it’s not an unreasonable concern for fantasy owners contemplating the move. However, Strange’s TE20 value makes him an obvious, round 13, buy-low candidate for anyone playing for his potential upside.

The Jaguars’ defense checks in as the ninth-ranked fantasy unit at an overall pick of 208, and the case for them as a legitimate set-and-forget streamer in 2026 is probably stronger than that number suggests. The most significant concern heading into the season is the departure of Devin Lloyd to Carolina, a linebacker who was the most reliable turnover generator at his position and whose five interceptions were a meaningful contributor to this defense’s fantasy scoring floor a season ago.

Anthony Campanile’s unit will look to offset that loss, in part, through Travis Hunter, whose transition to a heavier cornerback role in 2026 gives Jacksonville a genuine ballhawk with elite athleticism in the secondary. More quietly, a fully healthy Arik Armstead returning to the interior after playing through a hand injury for the final six weeks of 2025, when his snap count dropped by nearly half, could push this pass rush from good to legitimately disruptive up front.

If Armstead builds on his 5.5 sacks and 48 pressures from 2025, Hunter delivers even a handful of turnovers at cornerback, and Antonio Johnson (5 interceptions in 2025), continues to play as a top five safety, the Jaguars’ defense has a credible path to easily outperforming its ninth ranked defensive price tag by late in the season.

Which Jaguar are you eyeing in the receiver room, Jaguars fans? Any Duval selections that you will be targeting in all your fantasy drafts? Let us know in the comments!