Tag: K’Lavon Chaisson

Report: Jets, free-agent OLB Jadeveon Clowney have ‘remained in constant contact’

The Jets may be looking to swoop in on another Panthers free-agent target.

The New York Jets may be primed to swoop in on another Carolina Panthers free-agent target.

According to Bleacher Report NFL insider Jordan Schultz, the Jets and outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney have “remained in constant contact” following their meeting from this past week. Schultz also notes that while New York is “highly motivated” to sign the three-time Pro Bowler, the Panthers and Baltimore Ravens have maintained interest in deals of their own.

Clowney visited the Panthers back on March 14. The 31-year-old Rock Hill, S.C. native is coming off a productive 2023 campaign in Baltimore, where he posted 9.5 sacks and a career-high 71 pressures.

Since his visit, Carolina has signed fellow free-agent pass rushers D.J. Wonnum and K’Lavon Chaisson. They also expressed interest in former No. 2 overall pick Chase Young, who was ultimately scooped up by the NFC South rival New Orleans Saints.

In addition to Clowney, the Jets were in pursuit of wide receiver Mike Williams—who the Panthers met with as well. That pursuit proved to be a successful one, as Williams agreed to a one-year contract with New York.

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Former LSU, Jaguars edge K’Lavon Chaisson signs with Panthers

K’Lavon Chaisson has a new home after a disappointing four seasons in Jacksonville.

Former LSU first-round pick [autotag]K’Lavon Chaisson[/autotag] has found a new home.

The free agent who spent the first four seasons of his career with the Jacksonville Jaguars is signing with the Carolina Panthers on a one-year deal worth $5 million. The news was first reported by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

A first-team All-SEC selection on LSU’s national title team in 2019, Chaisson went to Jacksonville with the 20th pick in the 2020 draft. However, his production has been limited.

He has started 11 of the 57 games he’s appeared in over his career, and he’s totaled 73 tackles and four sacks with 11 tackles for loss.

Carolina, coming off the worst finish in the league in 2023, will hope it can get more out of Chaisson than the Jaguars managed to.

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Panthers signing former Jaguars first-round pick K’Lavon Chaisson

K’Lavon Chaisson, the No. 20 pick in the 2020 NFL draft, is joining the Panthers.

The Carolina Panthers are signing former Jacksonville Jaguars pass rusher K’Lavon Chaisson to one-year deal worth as much as $5 million, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

Chaisson, 24, was the No. 20 overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft joining cornerback C.J. Henderson as one of two first-round picks for the Jaguars. The pick that was used to select Chaisson was acquired in a trade that sent Jalen Ramsey to the Los Angeles Rams. Henderson, the No. 9 pick in the draft, was traded to the Panthers during the 2021 season.

In four seasons with the Jaguars, Chaisson notched only five career sacks. While coaches complimented his work ethic and called him a valuable contributor on special teams, the lack of contributions on defense led the team to decline his fifth-year option last year and allow him to walk into free agency this offseason.

While the base value of the contract hasn’t yet been revealed, it may be enough to factor into the formula for compensatory selections. For now, the Jaguars are not projected to get a compensatory pick in 2025.

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Panthers reportedly signing former Jaguars OLB K’Lavon Chaisson

The Panthers have reportedly come to terms on a one-year deal with former first-round pick K’Lavon Chaisson.

The Carolina Panthers are trying to boost their pass-rushing attack with a former first-round pick.

According to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport, the team is signing outside linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson to a one-year deal worth up to $5 million. Chaisson spent his first four seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Jaguars selected the Louisiana State University Tiger with the 20th overall pick of the 2020 draft. That’s when he first crossed paths with current Panthers defensive line coach Todd Wash, who was entering his fifth and final year as Jacksonville’s defensive coordinator.

Chaisson is coming off a career-high 2.0 sacks in 2023. He also recorded 13 combined tackles and eight quarterback hits over 17 outings.

Jacksonville had used the 6-foot-3, 245-pounder sparingly on defense over the past three seasons. He played in 39.2 percent of the unit’s snaps in 2021, 18.4 percent (nine games) in 2022 and 25.4 percent this past season.

Along with Chaisson, Carolina added former Minnesota Vikings pass rusher D.J. Wonnum on a two-year, $12.5 agreement on Thursday.

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Updated list of Jaguars set to become 2024 free agents

The Jaguars have re-signed a handful of their impending free agents, but there are still several players set to hit the open market.

In addition to the six new Jacksonville Jaguars set to be added to the roster, the team has been working to bring back a few of their own free agents.

Ezra Cleveland, Jeremiah Ledbetter, and Daniel Thomas all signed new contracts with the Jaguars and both Blake Hance and D’Ernest Johnson will reportedly soon follow. Jacksonville also used the franchise tag to keep Josh Allen from hitting the market.

While the Jaguars hope they can add Calvin Ridley to that list, for now he and several of his 2023 teammates are set to hit the market when free agency officially begins Wednesday. Here’s every Jaguars player with an expiring contract who is still set to become a free agent:

With the Ravens’ Devin Duvernay set to join the Jaguars’ roster, Agnew’s time with the franchise is clearly over. He even said his goodbyes on social media Tuesday. In three seasons with the team, he earned a trip to the Pro Bowl, scored two return touchdowns, caught five touchdown passes, and recorded a rushing touchdown.

It was a quick hi and bye for Barkley, who signed with the Jaguars a day after Christmas in 2023 amid a string of injuries for Trevor Lawrence. He was active for Jacksonville’s Week 17 game against the Carolina Panthers and took six snaps in garbage time.

Blackson signed with the Jaguars just before the start of the 2023 season and had a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Despite being on the field for just 30 percent of the Jaguars’ defensive snaps, he managed to fall on three fumbles.

The Jaguars seemed to remain optimistic about the 2020 first-round pick all the way to the bitter end. But after four seasons, Chaisson has just five career sacks.

Claybrooks missed the entire 2023 season due to a domestic battery court case that’s still ongoing. While there was some confusion about whether his contract would toll over due to the lost year, Demetrius Harvey of the Florida Times-Union reports that Claybrooks will be an unrestricted free agent as of Wednesday.

After signing a three-year contract with the Jaguars as an undrafted rookie in 2018, Herndon re-signed with the team on one-year deals in 2021, 2022, and 2023. For the fourth straight offseason, he entered this March as an impending free agent. In six seasons with Jacksonville, Herndon has appeared in 83 career games and has three interceptions, nine tackles for loss, and 32 passes defended.

The Jaguars reportedly decided not to tender Johnson, who was set to be a restricted free agent this offseason. That’ll allow the special teams ace to hit the market after spending two seasons in Jacksonville.

McManus spent one season with the Jaguars and is reportedly headed elsewhere. The veteran kicker agreed to a one-year deal with the Commanders on Monday night.

Moore joined the Jaguars in 2022 and spent the entire year on the practice squad, then he spent all of 2023 on the team’s injured reserve. As an exclusive rights free agent, it’d cost next to nothing for Jacksonville to keep him, but there’s been no indication yet that they’ve extended a qualifying offer.

Quarterman, a fourth-round pick in 2020, played out the final year of his rookie contract in 2023. In four seasons with the Jaguars, he 54 career tackles, one tackle for loss, and one very consequential forced fumble.

Ridley is easily the biggest name on this list and the top receiver on the free agent market. In his first season with the Jaguars following a 2022 trade from the Falcons, Ridley recorded 76 receptions for 1,016 yards and eight touchdowns. Jacksonville is reportedly working to bring back the receiver and he “currently prefers to return” to the Jaguars, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

No player in Jaguars history has played more consecutive games with the team than Shatley. After signing with the team as a free agent in 2014, he signed new contracts with the Jaguars in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Shatley started six games for the Jaguars in 2023.

The Jaguars picked up Van Lanen in exchange for a seventh-round pick in 2022, but he’s appeared in just 71 snaps over two years with the team. As a restricted free agent, the Jaguars could tender the lineman, but there hasn’t been an indication that they’ve decided to do so.

14 pending defensive free agents with ties to the Panthers’ coaching staff

Pro Bowl pass rusher and pending free agent Josh Allen has an early connection with a member of the Carolina coaching staff.

Unlike their staff on offense, the Carolina Panthers didn’t need to touch their defensive coaches going into 2024. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have connections to a few intriguing free agents.

Here are 14 pending defensive free agents, in areas of need, who have ties to Carolina’s coaching staff:

Doug Pederson: K’Lavon Chaisson roughing penalty ‘was the right call’

Doug Pederson doesn’t think the costly roughing the passer penalty on K’Lavon Chaisson was a bad call.

It’s hard to imagine what Jacksonville Jaguars outside linebacker K’Lavon Chaisson could’ve done to avoid a penalty in the final seconds of the third quarter Sunday.

After chasing down the Tennessee Titans’ backpedaling quarterback Will Levis, Chaisson — along with teammate Roy Robertson-Harris — forced an errant throw with a hit to the rookie passer. But instead of another third down stop for the Jaguars, the play resulted in a first down for the Titans when officials decided Chaisson landed on Levis with his full weight.

It was a call that baffled many viewers and frustrated fans at EverBank Stadium, but coach Doug Pederson said Monday that he wasn’t too bothered by the penalty.

“It’s tough, it’s tough on those guys because they’re trying to make a play and get the quarterback on the ground — it’s unfortunate,” Pederson said. “I think it was the right call at that time. They’ve got to do the best they can to try to either peel off to the side or try to brace yourself with your arms off the quarterback, things of that nature, and do the best you can.”

In 2018, the NFL’s definition of roughing the passer was amended to read, “A rushing defender is prohibited from committing such intimidating and punishing acts as ‘stuffing’ a passer into the ground … the defensive player must strive to wrap up the passer with the defensive player’s arms and not land on the passer with all or most of his body weight.”

Chaisson has recorded two sacks this season and is due to become a free agent in 2024.

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5 Jaguars players most likely to get moved at the 2023 trade deadline

The Jaguars won’t be big sellers at the trade deadline, but there are a few players on the roster that the team might not mind moving.

There’s no reason for the Jacksonville Jaguars to be sellers before the NFL’s Oct. 31 trade deadline.

Still, if a team comes calling it never hurts to listen. And while the Jaguars won’t be interested in parting with any players who could play an integral role in the team making a postseason run, there are a few players on the roster who they could do just fine without.

It’s unlikely that Jacksonville will want to part with players from its AFC South-leading roster. But if the team does make a deal that sends someone elsewhere, here are five Jaguars players who are the most likely to get traded ahead of the deadline:

5 studs and 3 duds from the Jaguars’ 25-7 win vs. Lions

With Jaguars starters watching from the sideline, which players made a strong push for a spot on the roster and who took a step backward?

The Jacksonville Jaguars breezed through the Detroit Lions on Saturday, tripling their opponent’s total yardage in a 25-7 win.

But preseason results don’t matter nearly as much as the individual performances of players battling to climb the depth chart. With Jaguars starters watching from the sideline, Saturday night was largely about players trying to prove why they deserve a spot on the 53-man roster.

Here are five players who stood out from the rest and three who took a step in the wrong direction: