The Jacksonville Jaguars have actually accepted trade franchise defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings for a 2021 second- and a conditional 2022 fifth-round choice that might go as high a third-round choice, league sources informed ESPNs Adam Schefter.
Ngakoue still has to sign his franchise tender, but the trade is in now place and Ngakoue is expected to join the Vikings.
Sources stated the fifth-round pick ends up being a fourth-round pick if Ngakoue goes to the Pro Bowl this season and a third-round choice if Ngakoue is a Pro Bowler and the Vikings win the Super Bowl.
1 RelatedNgakoue, 25, and the Jaguars will have to collaborate when he is going to sign his tag Sunday so he can be traded to the Vikings. Since Ngakoue did not sign the tender prior to the July 15 deadline, he must play this season under the tag, valued at $17.8 million, prior to he can sign a long-lasting deal.
Sources stated Ngakoue will reorganize his one-year deal with the Vikings to produce more cap space. The Vikings went into Sunday with approximately $12.9 million in cap space, according to Roster Management System.
Ngakoue– whom the Jaguars prepared in the 3rd round in 2016– has actually been unhappy with the group because July 2019, when then-executive vice president of football operations Tom Coughlin quickly broke off negotiations with Ngakoues camp. The Jaguars apparently offered Ngakoue an offer that would pay him $19 million every year, however the pass-rusher turned it down and he played the 2019 season– after an 11-day training camp holdout– for $2.025 million, a substantial plan on a gamer who had acquired 29.5 sacks in his very first three seasons.
He suffered an early hamstring injury that limited his production however still ended up with eight sacks in 2019 and ranks second in Jaguars history with 37.5 after just 4 seasons. In addition, his 14 forced fumbles are more than all however three gamers from 2016 to 2019: Chandler Jones (17 ), Khalil Mack (17) and T.J. Watt (15 ).
Ngakoue also was straight accountable for five of the 12 defensive touchdowns the Jaguars have scored given that 2016: a pick-six, a fumble return and three forced fumbles on sacks that other players recovered for TDs. Another forced fumble resulted in a goal in the 2017 playoffs.
He had been vocal about his discontentment with the Jaguars, particularly on social media, and his desire to play in other places. He announced in March through Twitter that he told the team he wasnt going to sign a long-term deal and in April went on a Twitter tirade versus Tony Khan, the kid of owner Shad Khan and the teams senior vice president of football administration and technology.
The Jaguars are loaded for the 2021 draft in which lots of anticipate Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence to be the No. 1 choice. According to ESPNs Football Power Index, the Jaguars have a 24% possibility to get the top choice, the highest percentage in the league.
Jacksonville is now scheduled to have eight choices in the very first 5 rounds– two first-round choices, a 2nd, a 3rd, two fourths and two fifths– with the opportunity that a person of those fifths might go higher.
ESPNs Michael DiRocco contributed to this report.
