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For the second straight year, the Jaguars saw their first-round pick require knee surgery before he played a down in the NFL but all knee injuries are not created equal.

Defensive end Dante Fowler tore his ACL at rookie minicamp in 2015 and missed the entire season. Cornerback Jalen Ramsey suffered a small tear to his meniscus last month and the team is not worried about him missing time once the offseason program comes to an end.

Ramsey was at the team’s practice on Thursday and moving around without crutches while General Manager Dave Caldwell was telling Tom Pelissero of USA Today that Ramsey “will be 100 percent ready for camp.” Caldwell added that the team has no long-term concerns about this injury or a previous surgery that Ramsey had on his knee in high school.

“Zero,” Caldwell said. “Even Dr. [James] Andrews said this little meniscus deal, it won’t affect him at all, considering the part of the knee it was in and how small [the tear] was. … He did have a procedure in high school when he was 15, and it healed. His MRI was very good at the combine. There were no issues with that.”

The Jaguars hope to make a leap up the standings this season and having a healthy Ramsey in the secondary with Fowler rushing the passer should help that cause.