The Jaguars will be without a punter for their matchup with the Ravens this afternoon. As Adam Schefter of ESPN.com tweets, Jacksonville’s regular punter, Logan Cooke, has been ruled out due to an illness, and kicker Aldrick Rosas is likely to handle punting duties.
The Jags do not have another punter on their practice squad, so there is no option to call someone up in Cooke’s absence. Plus, as Cooke also serves as the club’s holder for field goal and extra point attempts, Jacksonville will need to have another player assume those responsibilities.
The 1-12 Jaguars are neck-and-neck with the 0-13 Jets in the Trevor Lawrence sweepstakes, and Jacksonville is already a heavy underdog to Baltimore. Although it would be wrong to wish an illness on anyone, Jags fans are probably happy for any development that will better their chances of landing Lawrence.
The Jags will be helmed by Gardner Minshew, who was renamed the starting QB earlier this week. Minshew doubtlessly gives Jacksonville the best chance to win, which may or may not be a good thing for the club’s long-term future.
It’s unclear if Cooke’s illness is in any way related to COVID-19.
bring in Carli Lloyd
DarkSide830 stay off the crack.
they have one win. might as well make an interesting move like that.
Awful, awful, awful franchise. Really, I team that 12 in row and 10-11 last seasons are under 500, didn’t think a punter was necessary?
Check the rosters and find how many teams carry an extra punter. It doesn’t say when he got the illness and if it was in the last couple days they wouldn’t have been able to sign anyone for today anyway because of Covid rules. Anyone they sign has to be covid tested so many days in a row before being able to join their roster
Lol having a punter get sick on game day does not make an awful franchise, being the jets makes an awful franchise, jags were in the afc championship like 3 years ago, jets were last relevant during the super bowl 3 season
Both franchises have sucked for the majority of the past 2 decades
Let Minshew punt
Always go for it on 4th down!
And without the normal holder always go for 2. What do you have to lose?
No punts, just like Madden
Might be their most important position lol
Jags have to do better than that. Jets have been playing without a team, coach, etc.
don’t worry jacksonville fans, the jags are the front runners for trevor lawrence now. rejoice.
They’ve been without a quarterback all season so they should be fine without a punter for 1 game