Per Ryan O'Halloran:

 

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Jaguars receiver Cecil Shorts was unable to finish practice today because of left hamstring tightness, coach Gus Bradley said.

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">During the portion of practice open to the media, Shorts caught passes from the quarterbacks but was in a stationary stance. The practice wasn’t in pads, but Shorts did have his helmet with him.

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">“It was more precautionary on our part,” Bradley said. “He just had a little bit of tightness. We were looking at possibly giving him [today] off and we said, ‘Let’s go out there and see how it feels.’ Then we said, ‘Let’s not do it.’”

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Bradley added: “He ran and was feeling good and then said he was feeling tightness and we said, ‘That’s it.’ That’s what I’m hoping anyway. In talking to him, it doesn’t feel like [the prior injury].”

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">The prior injury was a right hamstring on July 25 that sidelined Shorts until Aug. 17.

<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">If Shorts can’t play or is limited, the Jaguars would be left with four healthy receivers, three of whom are rookies (Marqise Lee, Allen Robinson and Allen Hurns). Robinson just returned from his own hamstring injury on Monday.

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