The Jacksonville Jaguars finished the year with just one win. While that's usually a bad thing, the fans might be happy considering the fact that they got the number one overall pick in the upcoming draft.

That means Clemson star quarterback Trevor Lawrence will almost undoubtedly be the guy in Jacksonville for years to come, and that alone should bring plenty of hope to a franchise that went from the AFC Championship game to the worst team in the league in just a few years.

They fired head coach Doug Marrone and brought in Urban Meyer to replace him, who won a few championships of his own at the collegiate level with Ohio State and Florida, and named Trent Baalke as the general manager.

The Jaguars didn't have many bright spots in 2020, except for rookie running back James Robinson, who finished with 1,040 yards on 240 carries with seven scores in 14 games. Apart from that, the Jaguars were disappointing, to say the least, and with a new regime in place and a ton of cap space, as well as draft picks, their season in 2021 and beyond should be better.

Jacksonville will have an estimated $77 million to work with in free agency, and that number might change a bit when the NFL released the official number of the salary cap, but either way that's an insane amount.

With that being said, the Jaguars also don't have many players with huge cap hits aside from Myles Jack and Andrew Norwell, who are the only players with a cap casualty of more than $10 million for next season.

Still, the Jaguars might decide to trim some of their roster, especially considering the fact they should be huge players when free agency rolls around, and somebody on the offense seems like the most likely candidate.

TE Tyler Eifert

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Eifert makes sense for a number of reasons, so let's dive in and see why. He came over from the Cincinnati Bengals last offseason and was thought to be a huge piece for this offense. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

He ended the season with just 349 yards on 36 catches with a pair of touchdowns despite playing in 15 games for the Jags, and some of that might be due to inconsistent quarterback play. Gardner Minshew, Mike Glennon, and Jake Luton rotated at quarterback in 2020, and neither of those names provides any excitement, except for Minshew, although that's for a different reason.

Still, moving off from Eifert will allow them to target a veteran free-agent tight end such as Jared Cook, or a younger, more expensive option such as Hunter Henry. The wide receiver market will be fluid as well, and former Jaguar Allen Robinson is one name who is considered to be an option to join the Jaguars. Whether or not they draft Lawrence remains to be seen (they will) but upgrading the offense, regardless of who their quarterback is, needs to be addressed.

Eifert has a cap hit of just over $6 million in 2021, and the Jaguars will want to use every dollar available in an effort to turn this team around as quickly as possible. After all, they paid Meyer a lot of money to be the head coach, after a report came out saying he wanted $12 million a year.

Meyer didn't come out of retirement to take over a team and have them waste away more time. He joined this team with championship aspirations, and after what Baalke did in his tenure with San Francisco as GM, these two are determined to get this thing going.

The Jaguars also have tight end James O'Shaughnessy and could keep him on a cheap deal to pair with another tight end if they intend to go that route in free agency. Either way, Eifert, the former first-round pick out of Notre Dame, has battled injuries his whole career and was a disappointment last season in Jacksonville.

Eifert can still play when he's healthy, and he was healthy in 2020 but has played in more than a dozen games just four times in his eight-year career. With that being said, perhaps calling the Eifert signing a loss and looking elsewhere makes the most sense.

The Jaguars' new staff has work to do and has the money to sign some big-name free agents, all while bringing in a generational-type talent in Lawrence. It will be hard to strike out in free agency with that much money to work with, and Baalke and Meyer are going to be hard at work when the free-agency period begins in just over a month.