Jaguars release Tim Tebow ahead of preseason game vs. Saints

NFL teams must trim their rosters down to 85 players from the previous 90-man capacity by Tuesday’s 3 p.m. CT deadline, and one cut for the Jacksonville Jaguars was tight end Tim Tebow. It means Tebow won’t visit Caesars Superdome to face the New Orleans Saints next Monday night on Aug. 23. Tebow announced his release from Jacksonville on Twitter.

Tebow, a former first-round draft pick at quarterback by the Denver Broncos, was given this opportunity to try out at tight end for his old Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer — after he passed on it when Sean Payton and the Saints offered it to him earlier in his pro career. Tebow has since spoken highly of the work Taysom Hill put in to climb the Saints depth chart, which included his own conversion to a hybrid tight end-slot receiver role until he earned a shot at the New Orleans quarterback job.

Unlike Hill, though, Tebow struggled in the transition. He missed a couple of blocking assignments and didn’t record a catch in the Jaguars’ first preseason game. The remaining tight ends on Jacksonville’s depth chart include former Saints tight end Chris Manhertz, James O’Shaughnessy, Ben Ellefson, Tyler Davis, and rookie Luke Ferrell. The Saints will prepare for them accordingly.

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