Andrew Wingard

7 seasons in Jacksonville — undrafted out of Wyoming, still on the roster in 2025.

Wingard was an undrafted free agent out of Wyoming in 2019 and has played his entire career on one team — a remarkable run for a UDFA safety. His 2021 season (54 tackles) was the first big workload, and 2025 has been a renaissance year: 46 tackles and a career-high 9 PDs at age 28.

The 2024 dip to just 7 tackles reflects a season lost mostly to injury / depth-chart shuffle. He bounced back as a primary starter again in 2025.

6 career INTs — and all 6 came on different opposing QBs.

Wingard's 6 career picks are a who's-who tour of veteran QBs in good moments and bad. Two off Philip Rivers in his final season. The 2025 Week 2 pick off Browning was the career-long return at 39 yards — almost a pick-six.

None of the six were against the same QB the second time except for Rivers, who he victimized twice in 2020.

2025 PD-rate is 5x his career baseline — he's playing more passing-down nickel.

From 2019-2024, Wingard averaged ~2 PDs per season (12 PDs over 6 years = 2.0 / yr). In 2025 alone, he has 9 PDs — already more than he had in his first 4 seasons combined.

That's not coverage variance; it's role change. Jacksonville's secondary turnover in 2025 has pushed Wingard onto the passing-down nickel package, where he's actually getting targeted in space rather than sitting in deep zones. The pick-and-PD volume is the result.

A safety who has 2 career sacks — both strip-sacks of NFC South / AFC West veterans.

Wingard isn't a blitzer, but he has 2 career sacks and both came on safety blitzes that produced fumbles or near-fumbles:

- 2019 Wk 13 vs Jameis Winston: sack with a forced fumble (Hayden recovered for JAX) - 2021 Wk 2 vs Teddy Bridgewater (DEN): clean 1-yard sack

For a safety to carry that line in a 200+ tackle career means he's been deployed as a legitimate blitz threat at least once a season — rare for a UDFA back-end defender.

214 career tackles — the kind of total you only get from a 7-year stay on one team.

214 tackles, 21 PDs, 6 INTs, 3 FFs — these are journeyman starter numbers in a league where most UDFAs don't survive a third contract. Wingard has now outlasted every defensive coordinator he's played for and remains a key piece of the 2025 Jaguars defense.

For an undrafted Mountain West safety, this is one of the best survival stories of the post-2018 draft era.