Marrone doesn’t see practices changing

JACKSONVILLE — Welcome to Jaguars mandatory mini-camp, which will look like the just-completed set of 10 organized-team-activity workouts.

“I really don’t think there will be a lot changes,” coach Doug Marrone said last week. “As far as the practice tempo and things of that nature, you might get a little bit more walk-through time, but not really to an extent to where it’s a huge difference.”

But there will be a major difference: Attendance for the four-day camp is required.

All 90 players, including left tackle Branden Albert, reported to the Jaguars’ facility on Monday.

Albert stayed away from each stage of the voluntary program.

The Jaguars will have morning practices today, Wednesday and Thursday. The mini-camp practices are closed to the public.

Here are some key to follow: aspects

The only interior offensive line certainty is Brandon Linder will start somewhere. Linder was the Jaguars’ right guard from 2014-15 and the center last year. He has taken snaps at both spots during the off-season.

The interior offensive line is particularly in-flux.

Right guard (if not Linder): The Jaguars re-signed Patrick Omameh and added Arizona’s Earl Watford and those players would be a sensible choice because they have starting experience.

Center (if not Linder): The Jaguars’ decision to experiment with Linder at right guard this off-season has been a boon for Tyler Shatley, who appears to be the favorite in this scenario although giving 2014 starter Luke Bowanko a shot should be explored (if it hasn’t been already behind the scenes).

Left guard: This has been A.J. Cann’s primary home during the off-season practices. He played right guard the last two years, but was a left guard for South Carolina.

Something to monitor this week is if Marrone continues to shuffle the interior offensive linemen or establishes a line-up/depth chart this week so players have an idea of where they stand going into their break.

Albert was the only player to not attend a single day of the off-season program, but he told Marrone last week he would report to mini-camp. It was the right move financially — he would have been fined $13,000 for a Tuesday no-show and $26,000 and $40,000, respectively, for the final two days.

Granted, the $79,000 represents only .09 percent of Albert’s $8.9 million salary this year, but assuming this is a step forward in the Albert-Jaguars relationship, at least the team won’t have to be worried about Albert not reporting to training camp next month and be subject to daily fines of $30,000.

Marrone was non-committal on how the Jaguars would handle Albert this week — practice or no practice, first-team or secondteam, etc. It would be surprising, though, if he saw any team work today.

Albert’s catch-up work is documented. But rookie receiver Dede Westbrook’s injury kept him out of the final eight OTAs. The antiquated NFL-NCAA rule on class schedule prevented receiver Kenneth Walker and tailback Tim Cook from practicing since the end of rookie camp last month.

If Westbrook can practice this week, he will at least get a three-day catch-up on the time he missed. If he has to sit out, his training camp challenge continues to grow.