Tim Tebow gets into the end zone at Jacksonville Jaguars OTAs as he tries to show he belongs
Jacksonville Jaguars’ organized team activity workout on Thursday, cameras focused exclusively on Tebow.
And the media members on hand for the Jaguars’ first open offseason practice that included all 90 players took notice.
Despite playing quarterback his entire career, including when he won the 2007 Heisman Trophy and helped Urban Meyer win two national championships at Florida, he’s trying to catch on quickly as a tight end.
Going into his first full week since signing a one-year veteran minimum contract valued at $920,000, Tebow hasn’t been on an NFL roster since 2015, when he failed to make the Philadelphia Eagles’ final 53-man for the regular season.
Weird? More like awkward with Tebow at tight end
Meyer admitted Thursday that it was a little awkward seeing Tebow play tight end during Monday’s first organized team activity practice, but he didn’t go beyond much of that when asked about the team’s newest member.
“Oh well, I wouldn’t say weird — awkward maybe, the first practice,” Meyer said. ”But it’s 1 of 90, trying to make the team. He has improved, it’s all new for him, but Tyler Bowen is doing a good job with our tight ends as a whole.
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Unnatural in position workouts
During most of the team’s tight end drills, especially one in which he had to shuffle his feet in and out, Tebow looked somewhat off rhythm, like he was doing more thinking than allowing it to come naturally.
Tebow also didn’t look natural, like the other tight ends did, when he had to throw a forearm rip into a hand-held blocking dummy and then shed another block, before carrying on with his route. A few times, he looked somewhat out of sorts.
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