Jaguars Say Sunday's Colts Game Will Feel Unchanged as the EverBank Renovation Stays on Schedule

The Jaguars are home again on Sunday — and the team says the building will feel like the building. Ahead of Sunday's 1 p.m. game against the Indianapolis Colts, the first at EverBank Stadium in more than a month, Jaguars president Mark Lamping told local media Thursday that “the most positive thing is our fans will not have any change in their experience on Sunday,” according to the team's official site. Entrances are unchanged since the Jaguars' last home game, a 35-6 win over New England, and the team “cleaned some things up inside the stadium” to address crowding on the main concourse.

The month away was built into the schedule on purpose. Lamping called the four-week window “critically important” to the renovation that will deliver the 'Stadium of the Future' for the 2028 season, and said a number of construction milestones were met over the past 30 days to keep the project on schedule. The Florida Times-Union reported the month's work included pouring concrete and setting a steel girder in the north end zone that weighed one million pounds and took 72 hours to place.

The pattern repeats after Sunday: the Jaguars' next home game is November 29 against Tennessee, with renovation work continuing in the weeks between home dates, and the team will play its 2027 home games in Orlando before the renovated stadium opens. One question Lamping answered plainly: if the Jaguars earn a home playoff game after this season, it will be played in Jacksonville. “We have zero motivation to take the games anywhere other than as close as they possibly can be to our fans,” he said.