Tag: Josh Allen

Jaguars cap space entering the 2024 NFL Draft

Jacksonville has a healthy amount of salary cap space available entering the 2024 NFL Draft.

Despite their spending spree in free agency and re-signing of edge rusher Josh Allen to a long-term contract, the Jaguars enter the 2024 NFL Draft with a healthy amount of salary cap space and room to operate after signing their imminent class of rookies.

According to Over the Cap, the Jaguars have $27,562,593 available in effective 2024 cap space, accounting for the projected combined cap hit of the team’s draft class ($3,495,849) and a roster of 51+ players.

For comparison, Jacksonville had $14,035,022 in cap space available following the 2023 NFL Draft, per Demetrius Harvey of the Florida Times-Union.

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Jacksonville’s total cap space available is currently $31,058,442. Both 2024 figures rank third in the NFL.

These numbers do not account for interior offensive lineman Tyler Shatley’s Friday re-signing with the team as the terms of his contract are not yet available.

Additionally, the Jaguars have $63,610,120 available on their 2025 salary cap table, including $51,850,120 in effective cap space, ranking No. 14 and No. 15 in the league, respectively.

While Allen’s April extension is worth up to $141.5 million and averages out to $28.3 million per year, his cap hit for 2024 is $11.15 million, as he received a $32 million signing bonus that will be prorated on the cap table over five years.

While most of Jacksonville’s 2024 spending is already on the books — the $188,517,500 in guarantees it’s dished to players like Allen, defensive lineman Arik Armstead and wide receiver Gabriel Davis this offseason leads the NFL — the club can continue signing free agents following the draft if it chooses to.

The Jaguars can also lay the groundwork for quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s impending contract extension. Those negotiations are underway.

Josh Allen reveals his ‘Draft Day’ text to Brandon Beane

Allen wanted Dalton Kincaid on the #Bills:

General manager Brandon Beane has said that quarterback Josh Allen has a bit of involvement in the team’s NFL draft-day strategy.

Of course, Allen is not the one pulling the trigger on moves, but he sticks his head in the draft room.

“Josh loves the draft, he loves the process,” Beane said via video conference. “I love that he loves it and likes to hear how we see things.”

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Allen explained how that happened last year in a bit of a funny way.

Explaining it like a scene from the 2014 movie “Draft Day,” Allen admitted that last year he wanted tight end Dalton Kincaid in Buffalo. Did that play a part in the Bills drafting him in the first round? Maybe.

Allen said he texted Beane the morning of the draft and said two words: “Dalton Kincaid.”

Then it happened.

Allen explaining the story can be found below:

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Bills’ Allen, Dalton Kincaid hit the links together

#Bills’ Allen, Dalton Kincaid hit the links together:

Noted golf guy Josh Allen had a familiar partner on the links this week.

The Bills quarterback connected with tight end Dalton Kincaid for a round of golf over the weekend. Allen and Kincaid showed up in a post together on social media and the duo were together in a group on the course.

No word where or who shot better during the round, but the pair can be found in the photo attached below:

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Former Kentucky Wildcat Josh Allen signs a massive new contract with the Jaguars

Former Wildcat Josh Allen signed a new contract with the Jaguars.

Pass rusher, and former Kentucky Wildcats star, Josh Allen had a huge year in 2023. He was rewarded for it this off-season, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Originally franchise tagged, Allen was set to make approximate $24 million in 2024. However, on Wednesday, the Jacksonville Jaguars signed the 26-year old star to a new deal that will pay him $150 million over the next five years.

Allen was drafted by the Jaguars with the seventh overall pick in 2019. He was a Pro Bowler as a rookie, having recorded 10.5 sacks and 2 forced fumbles.

In the final year of his rookie contract last year, he broke out. He started all 17 games, and had 17.5 sacks, 17 tackles for a loss, 2 forced fumbles, and an interception. Allen also made the Pro Bowl once again.

At Kentucky, Allen became an all-time great pass rusher in school history. In his final season in Lexington, he had 17 sacks and 21.5 tackles for a loss.

Allen’s new deal makes him one of the highest-paid edge rushers in the NFL, and includes $88 million in guaranteed money. The former Kentucky star will now be in Jacksonville for the foreseeable future.

Colts’ division rival Jaguars agree to new deal with pass rusher Josh Allen

The Colts’ division rival Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to a new contract with top pass rusher Josh Allen.

The Colts’ division rival Jacksonville Jaguars have reportedly agreed to a new contract with edge rusher Josh Allen, who has been one of the more productive pass rushers in football.

According to Adam Schefter, Allen and the Jaguars agreed to a five-year deal worth $150 million including $88 million of it guaranteed. On a per-year basis, Allen is now the third-highest-paid edge rusher in the NFL.

Allen, the seventh overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, played out the 2023 season on a fifth-year option and was franchise-tagged earlier this offseason. Had he played out the 2024 season while tagged, he would have earned $24 million.

Allen is coming off a career year with Jacksonville, totaling a franchise record 17.5 sacks, which were tied for the second-most in football. His 90 pressures were the fifth-most among all edge rushers.

Four of Allen’s sacks and eight of his pressures came against the Colts.

While 2023 may have been Allen’s most productive, he’s been a consistently disruptive force along the Jaguars’ defensive front. As Michael DiRocco of ESPN noted, Allen ranks sixth in pressures and 10th in sacks over the last three seasons.

For the Colts, this means that they will have to contend with Allen twice a year for up to five more seasons.

The Colts’ offensive line is coming off a season in which they had the ninth-lowest pressure rate and tied for sixth in PFF’s pass-blocking efficiency metric. A healthy Braden Smith at right tackle in 2024 should further solidify this unit.

However, looking ahead to the 2025 offseason, the Colts do face some potential question marks in the trenches. As of now, center Ryan Kelly and guard Will Fries are set to be free agents, while Smith comes with a nearly $20 million cap hit next season.

Jaguars, OLB Josh Allen agree to 5-year deal worth $150 million

Josh Allen was franchise tagged, but he’s getting a lucrative long-term deal from Jacksonville instead

The Jacksonville Jaguars tagged Pro Bowl edge rusher Josh Allen this offseason to prevent him from hitting free agency, which also gave them more time to negotiate a long-term extension before the July deadline.

On Wednesday, they tore up the tag and will sign him to a lucrative contract instead. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Jags and Allen have agreed to a five-year deal worth $150 million. It also comes with $88 million guaranteed.

This deal edges out Brian Burns’ with the Giants, who got $141 million for five years after being dealt to New York. Allen and Burns were among the nine players tagged by teams this offseason, and seven of them have now signed long-term deals.

After recording seven sacks in 2022, Allen erupted with a career-best 17.5 sacks last season to go along with 33 quarterback hits and 17 tackles for a loss. He established himself as one of the best pass rushers in the NFL.

The Jaguars drafted him seventh overall in 2019 and after spending the last five years in Jacksonville, he’s in line to play the next five years in Duval, too.

Why a Giants-Bills trade for Josh Allen isn’t happening

Despite wild and uninformed speculation, there is absolutely no chance the New York Giants trade for Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen.

The Buffalo Bills have been recently shuffling (dismantling?) their roster around star quarterback Josh Allen, leading a popular New York radio host to implore the New York Giants to inquire about Allen’s availability.

Evan Roberts of WFAN suggested on the air that Giants general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll — who both came from Buffalo — at least check in with the Bills on their plans for Allen, who he claims wants out of Buffalo for a bigger market to appease his girlfriend, actress/singer Hailee Steinfeld.

“Josh doesn’t have any toys anymore. Josh ain’t happy,” Roberts said. “Josh doesn’t want to live in Buffalo anymore. Josh has a girlfriend who would rather shop on Fifth Avenue in New York City than waste time in that toilet bowl known as Buffalo.

“Call up your friend, Joe, and say ‘What up’ about Josh Allen. ‘Is he available? Because if you’re sinking this ship…we have the sixth pick in the draft. We have Daniel Jones. We’ve got other assets. We’ll help you with your rebuild, and we’ll help out Josh Allen.’

“Schoen’s gotta pick up the phone and ask about Josh Allen. Why not?”

Why not? Plenty of reasons. First would be the cost. The Giants would have to trade for Allen and, as rich a franchise as they are, probably would still fall short of what the Bills would want in return.

Secondly, the notion that Allen wants out of Buffalo is “complete fiction,” says Ralph Ventre of Bills Central.

The man has done nothing but embrace the region and its fans since being drafted. Not to mention, what general manager in his right mind would trade away a soon-to-be 28-year-old franchise quarterback under contract at less than $50 million per year? According to Spotrac, Allen’s deal carries a lower average annual value than that of Deshaun Watson, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson.

Ventre points out that the Bills’ latest roster purge (traded All-Pro wide receiver Stefon Diggs to Houston this week) is just part of the constant flow of personnel teams go through and are simply rebuilding, which is normal.

He also reminded us that Buffalo was a 10-win team and playoff contender before Diggs’ arrival in 2020.

The Bills are simply ridding themselves of aging veterans with hefty price tags. It’s a youth movement to ensure salary cap flexibility in 2025.

Meanwhile, Buffalo returns eight offensive starters and eight defensive starters from a team that won a fourth consecutive AFC East division crown this past January. In Roberts’ imaginary world, however, that’s called a “garage sale.”

Forget Josh Allen. He’s untouchable. Especially now that the Bills are building a state-of-the-art stadium, to be opened in 2026.

Any additional talk about Allen to the Giants is intended to drive engagement for personal gain and nothing more. It’s a fantasy created to fill space and create content during the dry time leading up to the 2024 NFL draft.

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Tom Brady’s old prediction that Stefon Diggs would leave Josh Allen actually came true

A very honest Tom Brady warned Josh Allen two years ago.

Tom Brady knows better than anyone that quarterback-receiver relationships don’t last forever. Be it for things like the salary cap, team chemistry, or age reasons, these dynamics almost always have a finite expiration date. But even Brady couldn’t have seen an old joke about Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen coming true.

After Diggs was shockingly traded to the Houston Texans, an old video of Brady telling other great quarterbacks that their No. 1 receivers were destined to leave them resurfaced on Thursday morning. It happened during the 2022 edition of The Match, and it features Brady telling Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes, and Allen that a top pass-catcher “leaving you” is essentially part of the job.

Little did Brady and Allen know that the legendary quarterback’s prediction would come true in the form of the Diggs trade:

Wow. Dare I say “Tom-stradamus”?

I guess it really is just the name of the game. Eventually, as a great quarterback, you’re just gonna have to make do with another hopeful top pass catcher at a certain point. As the Bills try to reinvent themselves, this was Allen’s first hard lesson on that front.

2024 projected win totals for each NFC East team

We’re looking at a ranking of all four NFC East teams including the Philadelphia Eagles by 2024 win total predictions

We’re about 40 days from the 2024 NFL schedule reveal, but the world and Eagles fans already know who their opponents will be.

The league uses multiple factors to determine the year’s game schedule.

There’s a cycle of inter-conference faceoffs; each NFC division rotates through each AFC division every four seasons and the other NFC divisions every three seasons.

In addition, where a team finishes within their division dictates a same-finish matchup with one team from the opposite conference and whichever divisions aren’t in the rotation for that season.

Philadelphia previously had one of the more difficult schedules over the past two years, but 2024 will see the Eagles among the top ten easiest schedules based on win-loss percentages from last year.

Offering an early glimpse into where the Eagles could finish this season, DraftKings revealed a 2024 win total prediction for all 32 teams, and Philadelphia landed at No. 6 on the list.

Here’s where all four NFC East teams are projected to land.

Ranking all 32 teams by 2024 projected win totals

We’re looking at a ranking of all teams including the Philadelphia Eagles by 2024 win total predictions

We’re about 45 days from the 2024 NFL schedule reveal, but the world and Eagles fans already know who their opponents will be.

The league uses multiple factors to determine the year’s game schedule.

There’s a cycle of inter-conference faceoffs; each NFC division rotates through each AFC division every four seasons and the other NFC divisions every three seasons.

In addition, where a team finishes within their division dictates a same-finish matchup with one team from the opposite conference and whichever divisions aren’t in the rotation for that season.

Philadelphia previously had one of the more difficult schedules over the past two years, but 2024 will see the Eagles among the top ten easiest schedules based on win-loss percentages from last year.

Offering an early glimpse into where the Eagles could finish this season, DraftKings revealed a 2024 win total prediction for all 32 teams, and Philadelphia landed at No. 6 on the list.