Mercedes Lewis is simply put, a good pass-catching tight-end.  Lewis has long arms and good size (6’5″, 258 pounds) and runs well for his size (4.7 40).  He also has good body control and can make the first tackler miss him in the open field.  Lewis could emerge as Byron Leftwich’s security blanket.

Lewis is soft when blocking and other teams will find that out quickly.  That doesn’t bode well for “Fragile” Fred Taylor running sweeps to his side.

Lewis played in 50 games at UCLA and caught 126 passes for 1,571 yards with 21 TD catches.  Lewis could be a great red-zone target for the Jags.

The Jaguars are in great shape at the QB position.  Byron Leftwich has improved his QB rating for three straight seasons (73.0, 82.2, 89.3) and only needs to stay healthy to put up a special season as his career trend would have him improving on that 89.3 rating of last season.  Leftwich has appeared in 40 games (38 starts) and completed 58.7% of his passes for 7,883 yards with 44 TD passes and 31 interceptions.

David Garrard is a little different type of QB than Leftwich.  Leftwich is a dropback passer, but Garrard is a mover and shaker.  Garrard has played in 17 games (8 starts) during his career and has thrown for 1,808 yards with 8 TD passes and 4 interceptions for a 77.7 career QB rating.  Garrard also has rushed the ball 68 times for 387 yards (5.7 ypc) and six TDs.

Quinn Gray only has played in one game in his career, and completed 8 of 14 passes for 100 yards and 2 TD passes for a QB rating of 119.0!