Finally, defender Yannick Ngakoue managed to leave the Jagars by going through the trade to the Vikings
The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade the franchise defensive end, Yannick Ngakoue, to the Minnesota Vikings for a second-round pick in 2021 and a conditional fifth-round pick in 2022 that could be promoted to the third round, league sources told Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Ngakoue He has not yet signed his franchise player offer, but the trade is now agreed and he is expected to join the Vikings.
Sources said the fifth-round pick becomes fourth-round if Ngakoue arrive at Pro Bowl this season, and third round yes Ngakoue is elected to Pro Bowl and the Vikings win the Super Bowl.
Ngakoue, 25 years old, and Jaguars they must coordinate when they must sign their franchise player offer in order to be officially transferred to the Vikings. How Ngakoue He did not sign the offer before July 15, he must play next season with the designation, valued at $ 17.8 million, before agreeing to a long-term contract.
Sources said that Ngakoue will restructure its one-year agreement with Vikings to create more space under the salary cap. The Vikings started Sunday with approximately $ 12.9 million in space under the cap, according to the Roster Management System of ESPN.
Ngakoue contributes to Vikings a young quarterback hunter tried to line up on the opposite side of Danielle Hunter, one whose work ethic and intensity were always highly respected in the dressing room of Jacksonville. Ngakoue should help make up for the loss of the four-time pick at Pro Bowl, Everson Griffen, who signed a one-season deal with the Dallas Cowboys earlier this month.
Ngakoue –selected by the Jaguars in the third round of 2016 – has been unhappy with the team since July 2019, when the then-executive vice president of operations, Tom Coughlin, abruptly ended negotiations with the Ngakoue representation. The Jaguars they supposedly offered Ngakoue a deal that would pay him $ 19 million annually, but the defender turned it down and played the 2019 season – after an 11-day boycott of training camp – for $ 2,025 million, a considerable bargain for a player who accumulated 29.5 sacks in his first three seasons.
He suffered a hamstring injury earlier in the season, limiting his production, but he still finished with eight sacks in 2019 and ranks second in Los Angeles history. Jaguars with 37.5 after just four seasons. Additionally, his 14 forced fumbles from 2016 to 2019 are the fourth most in the league, behind only Chandler Jones (17), Khalil Mack (17) and T.J. Watt (15).
Ngakoue he was also directly responsible for five of the 12 defensive touchdowns scored by the Jaguars since 2016: an interception returned to the end zone, a fumble return for a touchdown, and three forced fumbles that other players recovered for touchdown. Additionally, another forced fumble resulted in a touchdown during the 2017 playoffs.
He had been very open about his dissatisfaction with Jaguars, especially on social media, and on his desire to play elsewhere. He announced in March via Twitter that he had informed the team that he would not sign a long-term agreement with the club, and in April, also via Twitter, he launched against Tony Khan, owner’s son Shad Khan and the club’s senior vice president of administration and technology.
Ngakoue is the second starter in the past year to essentially force his exit from Jacksonville. The cornerback of Pro Bowl, Jalen Ramsey, apparently faked a back injury to be traded to the Los Angeles Rams in October.
It’s also the latest piece of Jacksonville’s defense from 2017, which catapulted the team to the Championship Game from AFC, in emigrating. Ngakoue, Calais Campbell, A.J. Bouye, Marcell Dareus, Ramsey, Malik Jackson, Tashaun Gipson, Barry Church and Dante Fowler –a roster including seven players from Pro Bowl– have been cut or traded in the last couple of years.
Jacksonville selected to replace Ngakoue, Josh Allen Kentucky, with the seventh overall pick in the 2019 draft, and added the specialist in pressing quarterbacks, K’Lavon Chaisson, this year. Allen added 44 tackles, 10.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles as a rookie, and was selected to Pro Bowl as an alternate.
The Jaguars are loaded for the 2021 draft, in which many expect Clemson’s quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, be the first global recruit. According to Football Power Index of ESPN, the Jaguars they have a 24 percent chance of finishing with the top pick, the most in the league.
Jacksonville he is now scheduled to choose six times in the first four rounds: two in the first, once in the second, once in the third, and twice in the fourth.
Information from Michael DiRocco and AP was used in the writing of this note.
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