The 86th NFL Draft will kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 29
with the Jaguars holding the No. 1 overall selection for the first time
in franchise history. The second and third rounds will take place on
Friday, April 30 at 7 p.m. ET with the final four rounds beginning on
Saturday, May 1 at noon. The Jaguars enter the 2021 NFL Draft with
10 total draft selections, including four in the top 50.
This year’s draft marks the first for Head Coach Urban Meyer and
the seventh for Trent Baalke as a general manager and first as the
Jaguars GM. Baalke has held a top 10 pick twice in his career with
both players ultimately earning Pro Bowl honors within their first
three seasons in the NFL.
“I knew that this would be arguably the most important decision I’d
be making, maybe in my lifetime” Owner Shad Khan said. “How the
stars aligned, it’s something that can really secure the future for the
Jacksonville Jaguars.”
JAGUARS 2021 NFL DRAFT PICKS
ROUND PICK
FIRST 1ST
FIRST 25TH (VIA LAR)
SECOND 33RD
SECOND 45TH (VIA MIN)
THIRD 65TH
FOURTH 106TH
FOURTH 130TH (VIA LAR)
FIFTH 145TH
FIFTH 170TH (VIA CLE)
SEVENTH 249TH (VIA TEN)
The 2021 NFL Draft will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes
and NFL Network. The Jaguars first-round picks are slated to be
announced in Cleveland by Commisioner Goodell with the No. 33
pick being made by Jaguars Legend Kevin Hardy. Commissioner
Goodell and Troy Vincent will announce the No. 45 and No. 65 pick,
respectively. The fourth-round picks will be announced in London
while Jacksonville’s 2020 fan of the year, Danika Mitchell, will
announce the No. 145 pick in Cleveland. Jaguars representatives will
make the final two picks in Jacksonville.
2021 DRAFT RELEASE
THE OVERVIEW
The Jaguars will host fans at the Travelcamp RV DUUUVAL Draft party, beginning at 6:30 p.m. on April 29. The draft party will return to TIAA Bank Field so fans can watch the NFL Draft live on the world famous video boards. Gates open at 6:30 p.m., followed by live draft analysis and interviews with Jaguars players
2021 DRAFT ORDER
Pick Team 2020 Record W%
- Jacksonville 1-15 .063
- New York Jets 2-14 .125
- San Francisco (via Miami) 6-10 .375
- Atlanta 4-12 .250
- Cincinnati 4-11-1 .281
- Miami (via Philadelphia) 10-6 .281
- Detroit 5-11 .313
- Carolina 5-11 .313
- Denver 5-11 .313
- Dallas 6-10 .375
- New York Giants 6-10 .375
- Philadelphia (via Miami) 4-11-1 .375
- Los Angeles Chargers 7-9 .438
- Minnesota 7-9 .438
- New England 7-9 .438
- Arizona 8-8 .500
- Las Vegas Raiders 8-8 .500
- Miami 10-6 .625
- Washington 7-9 .438
- Chicago 8-8 .500
- Indianapolis 11-5 .688
- Tennessee 11-5 .688
- New York Jets (via Seattle) 2-14 .125
- Pittsburgh 12-4 .750
- Jacksonville (via Los Angeles Rams) 1-15 .063
- Cleveland 11-5 .688
- Baltimore 11-5 .688
- New Orleans 12-4 .750
- Green Bay 13-3 .813
- Buffalo 13-3 .813
- Baltimore (via Kansas City) 11-5 .688
- Tampa Bay 11-5 .688
URBAN MEYER
HEAD COACH
The Jacksonville Jaguars hired three-time national champion, seven-time
conference winner and college Coach of the Decade Urban Meyer on Jan.
14, 2021.
Before serving as a studio analyst at FOX and an assistant athletic director
at Ohio State, Meyer accumulated a 187-32 record and a .854 winning
percentage, the third-highest in college football history, during head coaching
stints at Ohio State (2012-18), Florida (2005-10), Utah (2003-04) and Bowling
Green (2001-02). Meyer also posted a 12-3 record in postseason play. He is
the only modern-day coach to win national championships in two different
conferences (SEC in 2006 and 2008 at Florida and Big Ten in 2014 at Ohio
State).
Meyer was hired for his first head coaching stint on Dec. 4, 2000 at Bowling
Green, launching a coaching career that would earn him Coach of the Decade
accolades by Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News. Meyer turned around
a BGSU program that endured six consecutive losing seasons prior to his
appointment into a Top 25 team. The Falcons posted 8-3 and 9-3 seasons
before he accepted the head coaching position at Utah, where he went 22-2
in two seasons at the helm, including an undefeated 12-0 campaign in 2004.
Meyer was named national coach of the year in 2003 by The Sporting News
and, in 2004, he was named the Football Writers Association of America’s
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year and the Home Depot Coach of the Year.
The Touchdown Club of Columbus also presented him with its coach of the
year award, the Woody Hayes Trophy. While with the Utes, Meyer mentored
QB Alex Smith, who threw for 2,952 yards and 32 TDs and ran for 631 yards
and 10 TDs in 2004 before being the first overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.
His prolific coaching career next took him to Gainesville, where his six-year
stint saw two national titles and a 65-15 record with the Gators. He led Florida
to national championships in 2006 and 2008 and tutored QB Tim Tebow, who
won the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and was named First-Team All-American in
2008 after leading the most productive offense in SEC history (611 points).
During his time in Columbus, the Buckeyes won the inaugural College Football
Playoff national championship in 2014, captured the Big Ten Conference title
in 2014, 2017 and 2018 and posted an 83-9 record, including a 54-4 conference
record. He posted the two longest winning streaks in school history: 24 and
23 games.
Meyer’s teams were 26-3 in rivalry games. Bowling Green was 1-1 against
Toledo, Utah posted a 2-0 record against BYU, Florida tallied a 16-2 record
against Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia and Ohio State was 7-0 against
Michigan. His teams were a combined 114-22 in conference play with seven
conference titles, including three Big Ten and two SEC crowns.
Meyer also has a track record of success with future professional talent. He
has had 76 players drafted, including 21 first-round selections. In 2016, 12
Buckeyes were drafted, including five first-round picks: DE Joey Bosa, RB
Ezekiel Elliott, CB Eli Apple, OL Taylor Decker and LB Darron Lee. Other
notable selections during his coaching tenure include OL Maurkice Pouncey,
CBs Reggie Nelson, Denzel Ward and Joe Haden, QB Dwayne Haskins, DEs
Chase Young and Nick Bosa, WRs Michael Thomas and Percy Harvin, LB Ryan
Shazier and S Malik Hooker.
In addition to his student-athletes’ success, several of Meyer’s former
assistant coaches have gone on to serve as head coaches, including seven
in current roles: Steve Addazio (Colorado State), Ryan Day (Ohio State), Luke
Fickell (Cincinnati), Scot Loeffler (Bowling Green), Dan Mullen (Florida), Kyle
Whittingham (Utah) and Mike Vrabel (Tennessee Titans).
Meyer, 56, was born in Toledo, Ohio and grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio. He and
his wife, Shelley, who both graduated from the University of Cincinnati, have
three children: Nicki, Gigi and Nate, and two grandchildren, Troy (4) and Gray
(2). Nicki (Georgia Tech) and Gigi (Florida Gulf Coast) both played volleyball
in college, while Nate has competed in football and baseball at Cincinnati.
TRENT
BAALKE
GENERAL MANAGER
Trent Baalke was hired as the Jaguars general manager on Jan. 21, 2021.
“Trent Baalke has had success at virtually every level of football, notably
so as a general manager who shrewdly and quickly built an NFL conference
championship organization and team,” said Jacksonville Jaguars Owner Shad
Khan. “That experience inspired us to recruit Trent to Jacksonville a year ago
to serve as our director of player personnel and is one of many reasons why
we are naming Trent as the new general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Trent thoroughly knows the NFL and the dynamics of today’s game, has an
exceptional eye for talent and I know will have excellent chemistry with Head
Coach Urban Meyer as they begin their mission to bring a consistent winner
to our fans in Jacksonville.”
He originally joined the Jaguars in February 2020 as the team’s director of
player personnel before being named the interim general manager on Nov.
29, 2020. Prior to arriving in Jacksonville, Baalke spent 12 seasons with the
San Francisco 49ers, rising from the ranks of western region scout (2005-07)
to director of player personnel (2008-09) to vice president of player personnel
(2010) to general manager (2011-16). He was named Executive of the Year
following the 2011 season by the Pro Football Writers of America and Pro
Football Weekly after transforming a 6-10 team into a 13-3 team in his first
season as general manager with San Francisco.
During Baalke’s tenure in the Bay Area, the 49ers appeared in three
consecutive NFC Championship games (2011-13) and Super Bowl XLVII,
while tallying a 5-3 postseason record. After Baalke began overseeing all
player acquisitions in 2010, six acquired players accounted for nine All-Pro
selections while eight of those players earned Pro Bowl honors. Overall, the
49ers produced 24 All-Pro selections and 35 Pro Bowl nods from 2010-16.
He spent four years with the Washington Football Team’s scouting staff
where he served as the college scouting coordinator in his final season. From
2001-03, he served as Washington’s national scout. Baalke started his NFL
career as a personnel scout with the New York Jets from 1998-2000.
Prior to his NFL career, Baalke worked as a defensive line and strength and
conditioning coach at South Dakota State from 1990-95 before working as
the athletic director at Shanley High School in Fargo, N.D., in 1996 and 1997.
He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at North Dakota State
in 1989 helping the team finish with a 14-0 record and Division II National
Championship.
The Rosendale, Wis. native earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical
education at Bemidji State (Minn.) where he played outside linebacker and
was an All-Northern Sun Conference and All-Midwest Region honoree. He and
his wife, Beth, have two daughters, Katy and Cassie.
Jaguars General Manager Trent Baalke selected six players in the first round
in his six years as the San Francisco 49ers general manager. Baalke’s two
top ten picks (Buckner and Smith) both earned Pro Bowl honors within their
first three seasons.
Year No. Player School
2016 7 DE DeForest Buckner Oregon
2015 17 DT Arik Armstead Oregon
2014 30 DB Jimmie Ward Northern Illinois
2013 18 DB Eric Reid LSU
2012 30 WR A.J. Jenkins Illinois
2011 7 DE Aldon Smith Missouri
