Jaguars agree to trade DE Yannick Ngakoue to Vikings

The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to trade franchise defensive close Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings for a 2021 2nd- and a conditional 2022 fifth-round choose that could go as large a 3rd-round decide, league resources explained to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Ngakoue nevertheless has to indication his franchise tender, but the trade is in now position and Ngakoue is expected to sign up for the Vikings.

Resources stated the fifth-spherical decide on gets to be a fourth-spherical choose if Ngakoue goes to the Pro Bowl this season and a third-round decide on if Ngakoue is a Pro Bowler and the Vikings acquire the Super Bowl.

Ngakoue and the Jaguars will have to coordinate when he is likely to indication his tag Sunday so he can be traded to the Vikings. For the reason that Ngakoue did not indication the tender ahead of the July 15 deadline, he need to play this time below the tag, valued at $17.8 million, before he can sign a very long-time period offer.

Sources explained Ngakoue will restructure his one particular-12 months deal with the Vikings to develop much more cap space.

Ngakoue — whom the Jaguars drafted in the third spherical in 2016 — has been unhappy with the crew because July 2019, when then-executive vice president of soccer functions Tom Coughlin abruptly broke off negotiations with Ngakoue’s camp. The Jaguars reportedly offered Ngakoue a offer that would fork out him $19 million per year, but the go-rusher turned it down and he performed the 2019 year — following an 11-working day coaching camp holdout — for $2.025 million, a substantial deal for a player who had racked up 29.5 sacks in his 1st a few seasons.

He experienced an early hamstring harm that limited his creation but nonetheless concluded with eight sacks in 2019 and ranks 2nd in Jaguars heritage with 37.5 following only 4 seasons. In addition, his 14 compelled fumbles are additional than all but a few gamers from 2016 to 2019: Chandler Jones (17), Khalil Mack (17) and T.J. Watt (15).

Ngakoue also was right liable for five of the 12 defensive touchdowns the Jaguars have scored because 2016: a select-6, a fumble return and three compelled fumbles on sacks that other players recovered for TDs. One more forced fumble resulted in a touchdown in the 2017 playoffs.

He had been vocal about his dissatisfaction with the Jaguars, especially on social media, and his drive to engage in elsewhere. He declared in March by using Twitter that he instructed the workforce he wasn’t likely to signal a very long-term offer and in April went on a Twitter tirade in opposition to Tony Khan, the son of operator Shad Khan and the team’s senior vice president of football administration and technological innovation.

The Jaguars are loaded for the 2021 draft in which several expect Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence to be the No. 1 choose. The Jaguars are now scheduled to have eight picks in the 1st five rounds — two 1st-spherical picks, a 2nd, a 3rd, two fourths and two fifths — with the likelihood just one of people fifths could go increased.

ESPN’s Michael DiRocco contributed to this report.