The Jaguars have their best quarterback situation in the last 15 years.

Blake Bortles throwing for a franchise-record 35 touchdown passes, second best in the NFL, in his second season in 2015 has secured that confidence.

Jaguars general manager Dave Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley don't need to invest one of their eight picks in next week's NFL Draft on a quarterback.

NFL Draft position-by-position: Quarterbacks

"Those are conversations we have," Bradley said. "We had those last year and we'll have them this year. It's about how everything plays out and how we're doing in meeting some of our needs."

Based on the numerous needs the Jaguars still have, a quarterback selection at any point seems unlikely.

Bortles is thriving entering his third season and a solid backup is in place with Chad Henne. The Jaguars quarterback situation is not only enviable, but cheap. Bortles' cap number this season is $5.6 million. Henne checks in at $4.75 million, combining with Bortles to reach $10.35 million.

Washington is set to pay quarterback Kirk Cousins $19.9 million this season.

The question is at what point would investing a mid-to-late round pick on a quarterback be smart for the Jaguars? Probably in 2017. Ideally, Bortles will continue to grow and Caldwell can turn a developmental quarterback selection in 2017 into a prime draft pick through a trade in future years.

Bortles should also be ready to take on a mentor role by next season. He has shown that mentality to Bradley in this draft process, giving advice to the top quarterbacks in the draft in California's Jared Goff, North Dakota State's Carson Wentz and Memphis' Paxton Lynch.

"Even the guys coming out this year, he's had contact with some of them and they've bent his ear on what he's been through," Bradley said. "Whatever Blake has on his plate or what he's going through, he'll always be willing to help out."

Los Angles has taken command of the quarterback market in this draft, trading up 14 spots with Tennessee to secure the No. 1 pick on April 28.

Other teams in dire need of starting over at quarterback are Cleveland (No. 2 pick), San Francisco (No. 7), Philadelphia (No. 8), the New York Jets (No. 20) and Denver (No. 31).

There are wild-card teams as well with aging or mediocre quarterbacks like Dallas (fourth pick), New Orleans (12th), Buffalo (19th) and Arizona (29th).

The good news is there are several quarterbacks worthy of an early-to-mid round selection. The second tier after the top trio features Michigan State's Connor Cook, Penn State's Christian Hackenberg, Mississippi State's Dak Prescott, Stanford's Kevin Hogan, North Carolina State's Jacoby Brissett, Ohio State's Cardale Jones, Louisiana Tech's Jeff Driskel and Arkansas' Brandon Allen.

"When you're dealing with these guys and evaluating the two muscles, you can't evaluate the brain and the heart," Arizona coach Bruce Arians said at February's scouting combine.

"They're the two you play with. You try to get to know them as well as you can. You can evaluate how much they know, but you can't evaluate how they process it in 30 seconds or less. "

Times-Union writer Ryan O'Halloran contributed to this report.

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