JACKSONVILLE – These are encouraging times, and exciting times.

Those are ways to view the Jaguars' offensive line as the 2025 offseason moves toward 2025 Training Camp. It's also an important time, with Shaun Sarrett and pretty much everyone else around the group viewing it as something else:

A competitive time – to an uncommon degree.

"We'll keep them working at it each day and hopefully we get the best five starting when it all flattens out," Sarrett said.

Sarrett, entering his first season as the Jaguars’ offensive line coach, spoke to the media near the end of the team’s recent offseason program. Head Coach Liam Coen, like Sarrett, emphasized during the offseason the competitive nature expected from the offensive line.

"Those guys have done a nice job so far," Coen said, adding: "They've taken to the competition, and ultimately, we'll hold off on some of those judgements until we get to training camp."

The Jaguars since Coen's January hiring have moved to reshape the offensive line, addressing the area in free agency and the draft with an emphasis on not only competition but versatility.

And if competition is difficult in the offseason because of the unpadded nature of the work, Sarrett – like Coen – said the recent weeks were productive preparing for training camp and the regular season.

"We have this saying, 'The tempo goes down, the technique's got to come up,''' Sarrett said. "That's something these guys really have done. They're really taking it to heart and they're trying their damnedest. You get these walkthrough situations while they're all spitting at the bit. You keep them in that controlled environment, but you have to look through it.

"Right now, it's all about technique and then learning the scheme itself then they really put their hitting on display once we come back for training camp."

The Jaguars in advance of the offseason program removed specific roster designations from offensive linemen, listing them as "offensive linemen" rather than guards, centers or tackles.

"We do have a lot of guys can play multiple spots," Sarrett said. "I've got guys that have played center. I've got guys who have played tackle, guard and center. It makes us better. I always hear this old saying: 'The more you can do, the longer you're going to be around.' There are multiple guys who can play multiple positions on this offensive line."

The Jaguars this offseason signed four offensive linemen as unrestricted free agents:

• Robert Hainsey
• Patrick Mekari
• Fred Johnson
• Chuma Egoda.

They also selected offensive linemen Wyatt Milum (Round 3) and Jonah Monheim (Round 7) in the 2025 NFL Draft.

"There are multiple guys on this line that can play multiple positions, which takes a lot of stress off me as a coach and takes stress off the organization because they don't have to be out looking for somebody if somebody gets hurt midweek," Sarrett said. "We can plug and play another guy, and I'd feel good about it.

"There are a lot of guys that have played a lot of NFL football this line, and I just feel good about the depth at this point."

As Sarrett sees it, the goal of the offseason has been to "breed competition."

"That was the thing we saw and we wanted in the spring," he said. "It's going to really pop its head when you come into training camp. There are guys who running with the ones right now, and there's guys that are running with the twos.

"But they have to hold on to their spots. We'll keep them working at it each day and hopefully we have the best five starting when it all flattens out."

Three players who started extensively on the Jaguars' offensive line last season – left tackle Walker Little, left guard Ezra Cleveland and right tackle Anton Harrison – return. Johnson and Little are expected to compete at left tackle, with Milum and Cleveland also expected to compete – with competition expected to be the rule at most line positions.

Sarrett said the idea has been to minimize evaluation and emphasize teaching in the offseason.

"I really do have an open mind," Sarrett said. "It's interesting. In the first couple of practices, you get guys who have never played with one another and they're feeling each other out. You have to look past some of it sometimes.

"Then you see the true athlete, the true talent in these players, come out. You're like, 'Oh, wow, this guy can do this stuff. We just need to get him right in the right situation.' At the end of the day, the cream, as they say, rises to the top.

"Hopefully that's what happens here and we get to training camp and these guys grab hold of their spots and hold them."