Jaguars sign QB Mike Glennon to be Gardner Minshew's backup
The Jaguars finally pulled the trigger on adding a veteran quarterback.
The team announced on Friday that it signed eight-year veteran Mike Glennon, who has played with four previous NFL teams: Oakland in 2019, Arizona in 2018, Chicago in 2017 and Tampa Bay from 2013-16.
Glennon (6-7, 225 pounds) played at North Carolina State and was selected in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft by the Bucs. He has completed 488 of 801 passes (.609) for 5,163 yards and 36 touchdowns. He appeared in only two games for the Raiders last year, throwing for 56 yards and one TD.
“Mike is entering his eighth season in the NFL and will bring vital experience into our quarterback room and make us a better football team,” Jags coach Doug Marrone said in a statement. “We want to be as strong as possible at every position, and we expect Mike to come in and work hard, compete every day and help our team win.”
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Glennon joins a Jaguars quarterback that previously had only one player who started an NFL game, incumbent Gardner Minshew II. The other quarterbacks are Joshua Dobbs, who has played in five NFL games and has thrown a pass in competition since 2018, and 2020 sixth-round draft pick Jake Luton.
Glennon played in 19 games with 18 starts in his first two seasons with Tampa Bay, throwing for 4,025 yards and 29 TDs. He accounted for 2,608 yards and 19 touchdown passes as a rookie and was named to all-rookie teams by ESPN and the Pro Football Writers Association.
He was the first rookie in NFL history to throw for at least one TD in each of his first eight career starts and was just the fourth rookie in NFL history to post two games with a passer rating of 137.0 or higher.
Glennon played high school football in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C., and was the 2007 Virginia high school player of the year after leading Westfield High School to a 15-0 record. He threw for 7,411 yards and 63 touchdowns with the Wolfpack, with 4,031 yards and 31 TD passes as a senior in 2012. He and Philip Rivers are the only players in N.C. State history to throw for more than 4,000 yards in one season.
Playing quarterback runs in the family. Glennon’s brother Sean played the position at Virginia Tech from 2004-08.