Dylan Moses will have to revive his football career elsewhere. The Jaguars have waived the linebacker, reports Aaron Wilson of ProFootballNetwork.com (via Twitter).
Moses was a five-star recruit coming out of high school, and he quickly lived up to the hype during his time at Alabama. He had a standout 2018 campaign, but that was cut short by a foot injury. He missed the entire 2019 season with a knee injury, but he managed to earn third-team All-American honors when he returned to the field in 2020.
Still, thanks to the lack of track record and a torn meniscus suffered during that 2020 campaign, Moses went undrafted in the 2021 draft, and he ended up catching on with the Jaguars. He went under the knife last February, so he ended up spending his entire rookie season on the non-football injury list. He was expected to be healthy enough to compete for a roster spot this year.
The Jaguars have already seen some turnover at linebacker this offseason. The team added Foyesade Oluokun on a three-year deal, and they also moved on from Myles Jack.
He will be picked up, at least for depth on some team. A player as productive as Moses on a team as highly regarded as Alabama will certainly draw attention. I am not saying that Moses will or will not be great, but I don’t see him being one and done by any stretch of the imagination.
On another note…though this is obviously Pederson’s first year and we have yet to see what his defense will look like, the Jaguars don’t seem to be too concerned about their linebackers lately. Schobert was gone last year, Jack hasn’t been re-signed, and they’ve cut the young player they recently acquired at the position. Maybe they’re planning on using fewer linebackers and running even more nickel, like the Browns, but the hiring of Tampa’s linebackers coach as D.C. seems to suggest otherwise. Even if they didn’t have faith in any of these guys anymore, but you’d think that one or two would be retained to help in a transition.
Jack is with Pittsburgh now. Signed almost immediately with them.
Yes, I was saying that the Jaguars did not re-sign him. I should have made that clear, my apologies.
This has dolphins written all over it
He was always more famous than actually good as a prospect.
He was physically elite before the injuries but had no fundamentals
Is that a fancy way of saying that he is big, physically elite. Like Dolph Lundgren?