With the 212nd pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars select Cam Little, kicker, Arkansas.
Process
Jacksonville expectedly added a kicker to compete with free agent signee Joey Slye for a spot on the team’s final 53-man roster. However, the Jaguars may have been wise to wait to fill this need, even if it meant the possibility of missing out on Little.
From Eric Eager in an article titled “Need a Kicker? Don’t Draft One.” for Sumer Sports:
“The work of Riske, which has been replicated here, showed what we intuitively have been able to see for a while, that the NFL is poor at evaluating kickers coming out of college, and that’s in large part because kicker ability is difficult to discern in general.