The Jacksonville Jaguars are transport veteran offensive deal with Fred Johnson again to the Philadelphia Eagles.
NFL insider Adam Schefter dropped the information Sunday night that the Jags – who signed Johnson from the Eagles this offseason to a 1-year $1.33 million deal – are buying and selling him again to Philly for a 2026 seventh-round decide.
This commerce signifies a ton of various issues for the Jags as an entire.
Firstly, it states that the staff is assured in its offensive line room forward of Tuesday’s cuts and thinks {that a} potential seventh-rounder down the road will likely be extra impactful than Johnson within the brief time period.
The staff drafted a pair of linemen on this 12 months’s draft, signed a handful of men, and let all of it play out this preseason. With the combination of grizzled vets like Ezra Cleveland and Patrick Mekhari to go together with rookies Jonah Monheim and Wyatt Milum, this staff has a good group. This preseason proved that. The Jags haven’t had a stable offensive line in fairly a while, however this commerce states the coaches and entrance workplace members suppose they’ve one.
The commerce can also be a giant vote of confidence for each beginning tackles, Walker Little and Anton Harrison. Harrison is getting into his third season within the league, and there may need been some query marks round him this summer season, however the Johnson commerce squashes any of these. Including to the offensive line group, the staff will seemingly now hold the injured Cole Van Lanen.
By Tuesday, it stands to motive that the offensive line group will seemingly encompass Little, Cleveland, Harrison, Mekhari, Milum, Monheim, Van Lanen, Robert Hainsey, and Chuma Edoga. This group may develop to an excellent 10 members if one place group is shrunk by a participant as properly.
For normal supervisor James Gladstone, this transfer signifies that the wunderkid GM is all the time working the cellphone strains, even within the smallest of upside circumstances. Does buying and selling a backup offensive deal with for a seventh-round decide set this franchise ablaze and transfer the needle for future success? Definitely not.
Nevertheless, it does present there’s a dwelling, respiration human working within the entrance workplace in Duval who isn’t going to overlook a possibility to make his staff higher. If Johnson was probably going to be lower anyway, why not see if his former staff would possibly need him again simply in case?
Who knew {that a} late-night Sunday commerce of an offensive deal with may have such an impression. However that appears to be the brand new approach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. That ought to be a welcome sight for all Jaguar followers.