Maurice Jones-Drew the best Jaguar of the last decade says Pro Football Focus

The last decade hasn’t been full of stars for the Jacksonville Jaguars, so picking out the best of the bunch isn’t tough.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have as high of expectations heading into 2016 than they’ve had in probably the last decade. It’s easy to see why if you sit down and think about who has played for the team over the last 10 years – there aren’t a lot of high-profile guys who come to mind.

The first one is probably Maurice Jones-Drew and rightfully so. He was the team’s best player for a handful of years, putting up great fantasy numbers and even leading the league in rushing one year.

related-category]Sam Monson has burned through about every single offseason topic you could think of over at Pro Football Focus, but he still managed to find one more – the best player on every team over the last decade. For the Jacksonville Jaguars, he went with Maurice Jones-Drew.

"Jacksonville Jaguars: Maurice Jones-Drew, RBAs good as the options for Indianapolis were, Jacksonville’s were less appealing. The Jaguars have had players hang around for a large part of the decade, but with the team rarely competitive, most of them have not been consistently good over that time. Marcedes Lewis had a case, and had Greg Jones II simply been used more on the field, he may well have earned the decision, but Maurice Jones-Drew was the right choice in the end. MJD played 5,085 snaps for the Jags over the past decade, including his 2007 season in which he was the third-highest-graded RB in the league."

I wouldn’t argue with this at all. MJD was in his prime during the early part of the decade and was one of the best running backs in the league. He also doesn’t have a lot of competition (Daryl Smith and Rashean Mathis are probably the only other two real candidates).

Luckily this debate should get tougher in the coming years with guys like Allen Robinson, Blake Bortles, Telvin Smith, and many others coming into their own.