Jacksonville Jaguars unveil incredible renderings of renovated TIAA Bank Field
There is plenty of excitement around the Jacksonville Jaguars with young stars like Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne leading the way. The Jaguars added to that excitement on Wednesday, announcing plans for their “stadium of the future.”
The Jaguars are doing extensive renovations to their current stadium as the city of Jacksonville works to revitalize the downtown area.
The renovation will include — shade on all seats, wider concourses, increased space for football operations, better vertical transportation and new HVAC, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical systems.
The Jaguars and city of Jacksonville started working on this project in July of 2020. The stadium renovations should lead to Jacksonville being the home of the Jaguars for years to come.
Jacksonville has also released photos of what the stadium will look like and this should be one of the nicest stadiums in the NFL moving forward.
The Jaguars won the AFC South last season with a 9-8 record and had a thrilling come-from-behind win over the Chargers in the first round of last year’s playoffs.
Jacksonville ended up losing to the eventual Super Bowl champion Chiefs in the divisional round of the playoffs.
With Lawrence to build around, the Jaguars have a chance to be playoff contenders for years to come.
Jacksonville Jaguars showing caution with Calvin Ridley
In addition to Lawrence, another young piece Jacksonville has to build around is receiver Calvin Ridley, who missed all of last season after being suspended for gambling.
Doug Pederson surprised last week, telling reporters that he is currently limiting Ridley and working him back in slowly.
Pederson tried to explain the logic behind limiting Ridley on Tuesday, and revealed that the receiver will be full-go once training camp begins in July.
“He hasn’t played in a while, plus the injury, so we’re just trying to be careful with him,” Pederson said. “He’s the type of guy that you have to pump the brakes with. He wants to go so much and so fast and so hard out there at practice that we just have to pump the brakes and just tell him, ‘Hey, now’s not the time.’
“But he’s doing a great job. He’s picking up the offense well. The times that he’s working with Trevor (Lawrence) on the same page, they’re connecting, and those are good things to see right now in the offseason.”
Ridley caught up with reporters as well last week and told them it’s been difficult to modulate himself to match the coaches’ plan for him.
“I only really know one speed, but I got to gradually get my body back to football, like football and be peaking into the season, not out here [in OTAs],” Ridley said. “Of course I expected I would be a little rusty because you can’t really get ready for this. I mean the heat, the helmet. Just running every day is what it really is because you get sore. I’ve got to make sure I build and not be sore in the season.”
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