Acquiring wide receiver Jakobi Meyers prior to the trade deadline has been a home run addition for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

In his five games with the team, Meyers has caught 22-of-30 passes for 284 yards with three touchdowns.

But as offensive coordinator Grant Udinski described recently, behind Meyers’ production — and contributing to it — is his feel as a route runner and understanding of the game.

This ability helps him find open space and create pass-catching opportunities with quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

“There’s a lot of different examples that show his feel,” Udinski said of Meyers. “I think the first one that shows up is his feel in space. You see some of these teams playing zone coverage where they have defenders who have vision on the quarterback and they have different spots to get to and different landmarks or they’re reading off what our routes to determine what their drop is going to be.

“He has a feel for where those defenders are going, where they are trying to get to, and then where his route fits off of that. And that takes a second and third level order of processing. Not just to know, we tell you to get to this spot, but this spot is going to open up because we’re telling you to get to a spot that looks covered but if you have a great understanding of what the defense is doing or what the defense is trying to do, then you can run your route in a certain way to try to get to that spot on the field. Or try to dictate the coverage to play a certain way. Little things like that, that are really subtle, show up with him when he’s running routes.”

Worth your time: Coach Udinski gives two minutes on Jakobi Meyers’ football acumen in relation to route running and run blocking.

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Meyers brings a very reliable pass-catching presence to the Jaguars’ offense. He’s also been very good throughout his career of attacking the middle and intermediate portions of the field — two important aspects for a wide receiver in Liam Coen’s offense.

That feel component that Udinski was describing extends to the run game for Meyers as well, allowing him to position himself best to win the blocking rep.

“Then you see it in the run game too, with the understanding of angles on the block,” Udinski said. “You see a lot of plays he’s making, getting out blocking safeties, blocking corners. I mean he’s blocking linebackers on some plays and you can really only do that when there is a physical mismatch at times, but if you have great technique, great angles, you have a great understanding of where the run is going to go, where the blocks inside are going becuase how those blocks distribute will change how the safety or the linebacker is going to trigger on the run.

Udinski continued, “Because they’re keying, he knows the safety is keying the tight end or the safety is keying the tackle, the tackle does this, this is going to be the safety’s response and because he’s responding like that, I have to take this angle. That’s a really high-level series of thought to be able to go out there, play fast, and execute that type of block for just a simple run play. But to be able to process all that so fast does require really a special feel for understanding the game of football and just a feel for space out there.”

It’s not only on the stat sheet, but Meyers has been able to make a big impact on this Jaguars’ offense in a variety of ways.

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: How Jaguars’ WR Jakobi Meyers makes big impact on offense