The Jacksonville Jaguars will return all five of the team’s starting offensive linemen this season, giving the team a consistency it didn’t necessarily have during the 2025 offseason.
While there will still be some competition at certain positions including likely left tackle and right guard, Jaguars head coach Liam Coen indicated that right tackle Anton Harrison will further entrench himself on the right side of the team’s line.
The Jaguars picked up the former first-round pick’s fifth-year option earlier this offseason, locking him in with the franchise through the 2027 season. Since being drafted with the 27th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, Harrison has started 48 games for the Jaguars, starting all games at right tackle.
“A little. We actually did talk about it a little bit last week. It’s something that you don’t want to mess with too much unless you’re going to make a change. I think you look at what Detroit’s doing with [Lions OL Penei] Sewell, I mean, that’s going to be a long-term change that they’re making,” Coen explained during Organized Team Activities earlier in June.
Last year, Jacksonville flirted with the idea of Harrison being cross-trained at left tackle, primarily to see how that configuration would look like during the team’s mock game in training camp last year. Coen said the team will do it again, but didn’t give any reason to think it would be a long-term move for the former Sooner.
“But just also trying to get him — it’s OTA No. 4, so we’re just trying to get a little bit more of that continuity and chemistry back before doing that,” said Coen.
Harrison also hasn’t expressed much desire to switch sides, something Coen said the team would factor into their decision-making regarding the job.
“But we’ve had conversations about it. He’s very comfortable on the right side,” Coen said.
Anton Harrison earns high praise from division rival
Harrison will be one of the team’s most important players moving forward and that’s doubly true because of whom the team will line up against at least twice a year.
The Houston Texans deploy two of the best pass rushers in the NFL in Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson. Anderson was selected with the third overall pick in the same draft as Harrison.
Anderson and Harrison have competed against each other six times in their career. Since then, Anderson has totaled six quarterback hits and just two sacks. Both sacks came against Jacksonville in 2025.
During an appearance on Chasing 10 Fishing with Randy Moss, Anderson gave high praise to Harrison, comparing him to one of his former elite teammates. Anderson was fishing with Los Angeles Rams pass rusher Myles Garrett. The two exchanged stories of who gave them problems in games during the early parts of their careers.
“My guy, the Jaguar, I say my guy at the Jaguars. We in the same class, and of course we play each other more than any other tackle I’ll go against, but he kind of reminds me of LT (Laremy Tunsil) a little bit,” Anderson said. “Like they kind of like the same size, athletic build. It’s always a good matchup.”
The two will face off against each other twice this season, with the first matchup coming Week 6 in London. The game will be the second of back-to-back London matchups for Jacksonville this year.
Demetrius Harvey is the Jacksonville Jaguars reporter for the Florida Times-Union. You can follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Demetrius82 or on Bluesky at Demetrius.
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