Jaguars 2022 NFL draft: 4 things to keep an eye on in Round 1
The 2022 NFL Draft is finally here. All those months of preparation, meeting with prospects and late-night evaluation will finally pay off. The Jacksonville Jaguars, just like every other team in the league, will try to come out of the first round with a difference-maker. and at No. 1, there’s a good chance that will be the case.
The Jags will enter the draft with 12 selections and it will be interesting to see whether they will use all of them or trade a few to move up. Here’s a list of all their picks and the round they belong to.
- Round 1, No. 1
- Round 2, No. 33
- Round 3, No. 65
- Round 3, No. 70 (after trading CB CJ Henderson to the Carolina Panthers)
- Round 4, No. 106
- Round 5, No. 157 (after trading DE Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings)
- Round 6, No. 180
- Round 6, No. 188 (after trading CB Sidney Jones to the Seattle Seahawks)
- Round 6, No. 197 (after trading QB Gardner Minshew to the Philadelphia Eagles)
- Round 6, No. 198 (after trading LB Joe Schobert to the Pittsburgh Steelers)
- Round 7, No. 222
- Round 7, NO. 235 (after trading TE Josh Oliver to the Baltimore Ravens)
The draft is take place throughout the course of Thursday (Round 1), Friday (Rounds 2 and 3), and Saturday (Rounds 4 to 7). Without further ado, here are four things to watch on Day 1.
1. Will the Jaguars manage to pull off a last-minute trade and move down?
General manager Trent Baalke made it known early in the process that the team was always open to trading down from the No. 1 pick but he told the media during the pre-draft press conference that the phone hadn’t rung, meaning that no club was interested in swapping places with the Jags.
Having said that, teams in need of a quarterback could get fidgety and if there’s a prospect they like and don’t want to miss out on him, they might feel inclined to call Jacksonville before they make the pick. Speaking of…