Keenan McCardell was hired as the wide receivers coach on January 20, 2017 and is in his second season overseeing the group. A two-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champion, McCardell spent six seasons (1996-2001) with the Jaguars totaling 499 receptions for 6,393 yards and 30 TDs. He ranks second in all three categories in team history.

Keenan McCardell was hired as the wide receivers coach on January 20, 2017 and is in his second season overseeing the group. A two-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champion, McCardell spent six seasons (1996-2001) with the Jaguars totaling 499 receptions for 6,393 yards and 30 TDs. He ranks second in all three categories in team history.  

Despite having five receivers placed on injured/reserve during the 2017 season, including WR Allen Robinson, McCardell’s unit helped QB Blake Bortles achieve a career-high completion percentage (60.2). WR Marqise Lee led the group with 56 receptions for 702 yards and three TDs. McCardell oversaw the development of two rookies, Keelan Cole and Dede Westbrook. Cole, who went undrafted, registered 42 receptions for a team-high 748 yards, which was third among all rookie receivers in 2017. Cole set the franchise record for receiving yards by an undrafted rookie WR, while his 748 receiving yards were the eighth-most in NFL history by an undrafted rookie WR.   

McCardell’s previous stop before Jacksonville was coaching the wide receivers at the University of Maryland from 2014-15.   

While at Maryland, McCardell oversaw the development of current Minnesota Vikings WR Stefon Diggs, who led Maryland with 62 receptions and ranked fourth in the Big Ten averaging 79.2 yards per game and recording four 100-yard receiving performances.  

Prior to Maryland, McCardell spent two seasons (2010-11) with the Washington Redskins. In 2011, the Redskins receivers totaled 346 receptions, the second-highest total in franchise history at the time, and eclipsed the 4,000-yard plateau for the sixth time in franchise history (4,058). In 2010, McCardell presided over a receiving corps that helped the Redskins set a then-franchise record for completions in a season (349). McCardell’s unit provided one of the league’s most consistent big play threats, as the team led the league with nine completions of at least 50 yards.   

McCardell played for five NFL franchises in his 17-year career, playing in 209 career games with 168 starts, and amassed 883 receptions for 11,373 yards and 63 TDs. His 883 receptions rank 13th in NFL history, while his 11,373 yards rank 23rd.  

McCardell ranks second all-time in receptions (499) and receiving yards (6,393) in Jaguars history, including a career-best 94 receptions for 1,207 yards during the 2000 season. McCardell earned his first Pro Bowl selection in 1996 after totaling a team-best 85 receptions for 1,129 yards and three TDs.   

McCardell entered the league in 1991 after being drafted by the Redskins in the 12th round of the NFL Draft out of Nevada – Las Vegas. He spent his rookie season on Injured Reserve for a club that would win Super Bowl XXVI.   

Upon finishing his playing career, McCardell began coaching by completing a Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship with Tom Coughlin and the New York Giants during the team’s 2009 training camp. He also coached the West’s wide receivers in the 2010 East-West Shrine Game.  

McCardell worked in broadcasting as a studio analyst for Comcast SportsNet for the Redskins’ kickoff show in 2008 and served as a college football analyst for the Mountain West Network in 2009.  

McCardell and his wife, Nicole, have four children: daughters Keandra, Nia and Nakeeya’, and son Keenan II.