Ex-Big Evan Engram locks in three-year take care of Jaguars

A one-time Giants’ draft decide beat Monday’s deadline and signed a big-money extension to keep away from the franchise tag.

No, it’s not Saquon Barkley, who remains to be locked in a negotiation stalemate with the Giants.

Tight finish Evan Engram and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed Sunday to a three-year, $41.25 million contract extension that features $24 million assured, in response to stories.

Engram was set to play below the franchise tag value $11.345 million in 2023, however the brand new deal provides a elevate that basically pays him about $30 million over two years, per NFL Community.

It’s the most important contract of Engram’s profession and a reward for his breakout first season with the Jaguars.

He earned $16.7 million over 5 seasons with the Giants, who used their 2017 first-round decide on him.

Engram joined the Jaguars on a one-year, $9.2 million prove-it contract after which delivered career-highs of 73 catches and 766 yards.

He reduce down on the drops and eradicated the accidents that plagued his up-and-down profession with the Giants.

Engram’s new contract leaves simply three gamers left on the franchise tag: Barkley and fellow working backs Josh Jacobs (Raiders) and Tony Pollard (Cowboys).

The present conditions for Barkley and Engram paradoxically spotlight an issue in NFL negotiations nowadays.

Throughout their 4 seasons as teammates (2018-21), the Giants rode Barkley for 849 touches to Engram’s 211 and Barkley scored 27 touchdowns to Engram’s 11, however Engram is making the kind of cash that Barkley wishes and might’t appear to squeeze out of the Giants just because Engram performs tight finish as a substitute of working again.

The marketplace for working backs has plummeted, as most not too long ago highlighted by the Bengals’ Joe Mixon accepting a pay reduce.

Franchise-tagged gamers have till 4 p.m. Monday to barter long-term extensions.

As soon as the deadline passes, they have to both play on the tag ($10.1 million for working backs) or sit out the season.

The extension implies that Engram’s common annual pay ($13.75M) will rank sixth amongst tight ends, behind the Giants’ Darren Waller, 49ers’ George Kittle, Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, Eagles’ Dallas Goedert and Ravens’ Mark Andrews.

Engram reacted to the signing by publishing a photograph of himself trying up at a crowd of Jaguars followers and captioned it “I’m house” with the folded fingers emoji to point out gratitude.

Barkley responded with “Congrats brudda hold going” in addition to the fingers crossed and black coronary heart emojis.