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An all-too-brief timeline of Tim Tebow's tenure as a Jaguars tight end

The TEbow experiment is over in Jacksonville.

On Tuesday, after a pretty awful first preseason game that included two awful blocks, Tim Tebow was released by the Jaguars, ending his tenure as a tight end with the team coached by his former college bench boss Urban Meyer.

What’s next? Who knows! It seems doubtful that another team would use a roster spot now on a player who hadn’t ever played the tight end position before, especially one without the ties Tebow had to Meyer.

So let’s take one more look back on the past three months of Tebow at TE before we shut the door on this chapter of his career:

February 18: Tebow retires from baseball

He made it all the way to Triple-A with the New York Mets organization, and that’s still pretty amazing. It also set this whole thing in motion.

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April 29: News broke that he worked out for the Jaguars as a tight end

That was the sound of everyone’s jaws hitting the floor when these tweets dropped.

 

May 10: It's happening!

Surreal at the time, still kind of surreal.

May 20: The first video of him in a Jags uni showed a very bulked-up Tebow

Makes sense if you want to be a tight end.

May 29: He caught a TD pass from Trevor Lawrence

TEEEEEBOWWWW. From the Florida Times-Union:

During Thursday’s two-hour practice, Tebow, who was not made available for comment, did not drop a pass.

And early on, he caught two short-yardage touchdown passes. He hauled in a pass from quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the left corner of the end zone and quarterback Gardner Minshew connected with him on another.

 

 

June 11: Meyer had some mixed things to say about Tebow

More from the Florida Times-Union:

“You wish you could see and do (more),” Meyer said. ”In spring football, you have full pads and scrimmages, and you can really evaluate, but it’s kind of tough right now.” …

“Oh, Tim has done a decent job. We all know this is a new position for him,” Meyer said. “He’s a great teammate. In the locker room, I can see everybody getting along, we have good chemistry on our team. But he’s picked it up decently.”

July 30: Touchdown at training camp!

This looked pretty good!

August 2: Not the most ringing of endorsements from Meyer

This was probably a sign that Tebow was too raw to keep on the roster.

“He has good hands. In his drill work, he’s great, but when you get in a competitive moment, just [because of his] lack of experience he wants to body the ball,” Meyer told reporters at Jaguars camp Saturday. “When you get to a point where two people are going after it, you have to go get the ball. He is fighting through that a little bit, but he has the skill set to catch the ball.”

August 11: He's fourth on the unofficial depth chart

Uh-oh.

August 14: He struggled blocking during his one and only preseason game

Here’s bad block No. 1:

And No. 2:

August 17: He's released

He was classy about the move:

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