This time last season, part of the buzz around the Jacksonville Jaguars was that quarterback Blake Bortles wasn’t named one of the team captains for the 2017 season. Although it wasn’t covered as greatly as some of the other stories surrounding the team, there as an underlying message the team sent in not naming the starter one of their leaders.
It’s something Bortles, who now enters his fifth season in the league, had to earn. Apparently, the former first-round draft pick has done just that, being named one of the team captains for the 2018 season as head coach Doug Marrone announced earlier this week.