The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade franchise defensive end Yannick Nagakui with the Minnesota Vikings for 2021 seconds and a conditional 2022 fifth-round pick that could reach the top of the third round, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Chef.
Nagaku will still have to sign its franchise tender, but trade is now taking place and Nagaku is expected to join the Vikings.
Sources said the pick in the fifth round becomes the pick in the fourth round if Nagakui goes to the Pro Bowl this season and picks in the third round if Nagakui is the Pro Bowler and the Vikings win the Super Bowl.
The Nagaku and Jaguars will have to coordinate when it signs its tag on Sunday so it can trade in the Vikings. Because Nagaku did not sign the tender before the July 15 deadline, he should play under the ટે 17.8 million price tag this season before he can sign a long-term deal.
Sources said Nagaku would rearrange his one-year deal with the Vikings to create more cap space.
NAGAKAU – The third-round pick of the Jaguars in 2016 has been unhappy with the team since July 2019, when then-vice president of football operations Tom Cufflin abruptly stopped talking to the Nagaku camp. The Jaguars reportedly offered Nagakui a deal that would pay him 19 19 million a year, but Pass-Rusher turned him down and he made a significant deal for the 2019 season – after an 11-day training camp holdout – for 2.0 25,025 million. The player who had 29.5 sacks fast in his first three seasons.
He initially suffered a hamstring injury that limited his production but ended up with eight sacks in 2019 and is second in Jaguar history after only four seasons with only .. with. In addition, his 14 forced idols are more than just three players from 2016 to 2019: Chandler Jones (17), Khalil Mack (17) and TJ Watt (15).
Nagaku was also directly responsible for five of the 12 defensive touchdowns the Jaguars have made since 2001: a pick-six, a fumble return and three forced bags among the two players received by other players for the tick. Another forced movement resulted in a touchdown in the 2017 playoffs.
He voiced his dissatisfaction with the Jaguars, especially on social media and his desire to play elsewhere. He announced via Twitter in March that he had told the team that he would not sign a long-term deal and in April went to Twitter Tirade against owner Shadkhan’s son Tony Khan and the team’s senior vice president of football administration. And technology.
Jaguar is packed for the 2021 draft with many expecting Clemson to pick quarterback Trevor Larens No. 1. Jaguar now has eight picks in the first five rounds – two first-round picks, one second, third, two fourths and two halves – with the chance that it could go one-fifth higher in the fifties.
Michael Dirocco of ESPN contributed to this report.
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