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‘Win-win’: Doug Pederson explains Jaguars trading Trevis Gipson

‘Win-win’: Doug Pederson explains Jaguars trading Trevis Gipson

A preseason knee injury to Seahawks edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu led Seattle to ring Jacksonville’s line and trade for Jaguars defensive end Trevis Gipson Monday morning.

While the Jaguars sacrificed an offseason free-agent signee and projected contributing pass rusher by making the deal, Jacksonville head coach Doug Pederson believed it was a positive move for all involved parties.

Per ESPN, Jacksonville received a 2025 sixth-round pick in return for Gipson, who can now compete for a larger role than he likely would have fielded with the Jaguars.

“Trevis has done an outstanding job for us,” Pederson stated Monday. “I think it’s a good situation for him, it’s a good situation for the team he’s going to, and obviously the compensation for us — it’s a win-win.

“It gives him an opportunity to play, and he put good tape out there of his play. Wish him nothing but the best. I spoke to him this morning, he’s happy and excited for the opportunity.”

Pederson indicated that the Seahawks called the Jaguars to express their interest in acquiring Gipson following Nwosu’s Saturday injury.

After signing a one-year contract with Jacksonville in March, Gipson compiled four tackles, two quarterback hits and one defended pass in three preseason games with the club.

In his four-season, 48-game pro career, Gipson has racked up 81 tackles including 11 for loss, 11 sacks, six forced fumbles and five defended passes.

“I don’t think anything or anybody is expendable,” said Pederson. “When you have good players and other teams have needs, you’re obviously going to listen.”

Pederson pointed to the development of two Jaguars edge rushers, 2023 undrafted free agent D.J. Coleman and 2024 seventh-round NFL draft pick Myles Cole, for providing a sense of comfort when Jacksonville accepted the trade.

Coleman recorded five tackles and three quarterback hits over 52 defensive snaps throughout the preseason. Cole posted seven tackles, half a sack and two quarterback hits over 62 snaps.

“Obviously, Myles has really improved. D.J. Coleman is another that’s improved a little bit through camp and the offseason program,” Pederson mentioned.

“It’s what you want. It’s your development. It’s what we talked about going back to day one, and how we developed the roster and a good situation.”

To pair with Jacksonville trading Gipson, the Jaguars waived defensive ends Breeland Speaks and Raymond Johnson III on Sunday, leaving Coleman, Cole and the recently-signed Joe Gaziano as reserves behind starting edge rushers Joshua Hines-Allen and Travon Walker.

The Jaguars are seemingly taking a leap of faith in handing Coleman and Cole backup gigs at this point in their careers, though, as neither has appeared in a regular season NFL game.

Jacksonville has until 4 p.m. ET Tuesday to trim its active roster to 53 players. It has 80 at press time.

Trevis Gipson trade suggests Seahawks LB Uchenna Nwosu will miss time

Trevis Gipson trade suggests Seahawks LB Uchenna Nwosu will miss time

The preseason may be over, but the Seattle Seahawks are still plenty busy. Early Monday morning, the Pacific Northwest woke up to the news that the Seahawks had traded for linebacker Trevis Gipson from the Jacksonville Jaguars. Gipson has bounced around the NFL for a few years, but wherever he goes it has been clear he is a pass rusher.

Moves like this do not come in a vacuum. Unfortunately, on Saturday night against the Cleveland Browns, Seahawks linebacker Uchenna Nwosu was the victim of a chop block.

Luck has not been on Nwosu’s side as of late. Last year, Nwosu was lost for the season following Week 7 with a pectoral injury. Now, he is dealing with what is clearly a lower leg/knee injury. Although head coach Mike Macdonald had no updates after the game on Saturday, the fact the Seahawks traded for Gipson suggests they may be without Nwosu for some time to start the season.

The timing could not have possibly been worse. Last week, the Seahawks traded away Darrell Taylor to the Chicago Bears for a sixth round pick. At the time, it was an understandable move given the depth at the position. But without Nwosu, clearly Seattle felt they weren’t as deep.

Looks like the Seahawks might have to use that extra sixth rounder a lot sooner than they had hoped, as the cost to acquire Gipson is a late round draft pick. Perhaps it could be the pick they received from the Taylor trade.

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Report: Jaguars trade DE Trevis Gipson to Seahawks

Report: Jaguars trade DE Trevis Gipson to Seahawks

Jacksonville began its Monday morning making moves, reportedly trading defensive end Trevis Gipson to Seattle in exchange for a late-round 2025 draft selection, according to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport.

A fifth-round pick by Chicago in the 2020 NFL Draft, Gipson spent his first three seasons in the Windy City before being let go during training camp last summer.

Gipson joined the Jaguars as an unrestricted free agent this offseason, signing a one-year deal with the club after aligning with AFC South rival Tennessee in 2023.

The trade comes amid the Jaguars’ preseason roster cuts, as they must get their numbers down from 90 players to 53 before the NFL’s 4 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline.

It offers the Seahawks a quality rotational pass rusher for their new head coach Mike Macdonald. On the flip side, Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke continues to add late-round draft capital to his arsenal, a theme throughout his tenure in Jacksonville.

In 48 career games including 19 starts, Gipson has recorded 81 tackles with 11 for loss, 11 sacks, six forced fumbles and five defended passes.

Gipson was expected to be a key piece of the Jaguars’ pass-rushing rotation. Now, the team’s edge gets much thinner behind Josh Hines-Allen and Travon Walker.

The move sheds light on how the Jaguars feel about backup edge rushers D.J. Coleman, a 2023 undrafted free agent signee, and Myles Cole, Jacksonville’s 2024 seventh-round draft pick, moving forward.

Coleman posted five total tackles and three quarterback hits during the preseason; Cole logged seven tackles, half a sack and two quarterback hits.

Seahawks acquire EDGE Trevis Gipson via trade with Jacksonville Jaguars

Seahawks acquire EDGE Trevis Gipson via trade with Jacksonville Jaguars

The Seattle Seahawks are acquiring veteran EDGE Trevis Gipson in a trade with the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to multiple reports. General manager John Schneider is shipping a late-round pick to Jacksonville in exchange for Gipson’s services. He arrives after Uchenna Nwosu suffered an injury in Saturday’s preseason finale.

Nwosu suffered a knee injury in the preseason Week 3 victory over the Cleveland Browns. Nwosu was the victim of a nasty chop-block penalty by Browns guard Wyatt Teller. The severity is currently unknown, but acquiring a pass rusher through trade indicates he’s potentially headed for a multi-week stint on the sidelines.

Gipson initially entered the league as a fifth-round selection of the Chicago Bears in the 2020 NFL Draft. He exploded as a sophomore in 2021 by recording seven sacks, but regressed in 2022 after the Bears underwent a schematic change defensively. He was traded to the Tennessee Titans ahead of the 2023 season, where he played in a deep reserve role.

Gipson signed a one-year contract with the Jaguars earlier this March. With roster cuts looming around the league on Monday and Tuesday, this trade indicates he wasn’t going to make Jacksonville’s 53 man roster. The Seahawks have a newly-minted need at the position following Nwosu’s injury, which arrived mere days after they traded EDGE Darrell Taylor to the Bears.

Acquiring Gipson also indicates the Seahawks don’t possess much faith in their in-house options to replace Nwosu in the rotation. This trade spells bad news for Jamie Sheriff and Nelson Ceaser. Gipson will be on Seattle’s initial 53-man roster, and he’ll join Boye Mafe, Dre’Mont Jones, and Derick Hall in the early-season rotation while Nwosu heals up.

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Ryan Nielsen: New Jaguars EDGE Trevis Gipson ‘fits the mold’

Ryan Nielsen: New Jaguars EDGE Trevis Gipson ‘fits the mold’

Jacksonville’s edge rush duo of Josh Allen and Travon Walker have combined to miss only two of the club’s past 34 regular season games. The tandem emerged as one of the NFL’s top pass-rushing sets last year, uniting for 27.5 sacks without missing a single contest between them.

The Jaguars have been fortunate that their starting edge rushers have almost always been available to play.

What has rested behind Allen and Walker on Jacksonville’s EDGE depth chart has been great cause for concern dating back to last offseason, when backup pass rusher Arden Key left for a bigger role with Tennessee and virtually went unreplaced, outside of the team’s 2023 fifth-round selection, Yasir Abdullah. He recorded one tackle as a rookie.

Perhaps predictably, Jacksonville’s second-team EDGE group was ineffective in 2023, combining for just three sacks. That’s why the club signed former Tennessee and Chicago edge rusher Trevis Gipson via free agency this past March.

“He has history with [Jaguars outside linebackers] coach [Bill] Shuey,” Jacksonville defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen said about Gipson on Monday, ahead of Jacksonville’s first 2024 offseason training activity (OTA).

“Coach Shuey was really big on bringing him, ‘Hey take a look at this guy. I have some history with him.’ Within what we do, he fits the mold.”

A 2020 fifth-round pick by Chicago, Gipson worked under Shuey for the first two seasons of his career. The latter served as a pass rush analyst and assistant positional coach before being promoted to oversee the Bears’ outside linebackers for the 2021 campaign.

Gipson effectively redshirted his rookie year, before producing his best season as a pro with Shuey’s guidance in 2021. He tallied seven sacks and as many tackles for loss, five forced fumbles, two defended passes and 39 total tackles over 16 appearances and nine starts.

However, Gipson’s production declined after Chicago hired a new coaching staff in 2022, leading Shuey to join Doug Pederson’s staff in Jacksonville with the same title that season.

In 17 games and 10 starts, Gipson accumulated three sacks, four tackles for loss, 31 total tackles and three defended passes. He was waived during the 2023 preseason, leading to his signing with Tennessee, where he posted six tackles, one sack and one forced fumble last year.

The Jaguars believe Gipson can benefit from a reunion with Shuey and are excited to observe him in the practice setting this summer under his old coach.

If he can return to his 2021 form, Gipson will present the Jaguars with the third capable edge rusher they’ve needed since Key’s exit.

“Haven’t played a play yet but excited about what we’ve seen on the tape,” Nielsen said. “He’s a tireless worker, intelligent player, I think he’s got a bright future.”

Ex-Titans edge rusher Trevis Gipson signs with Jaguars

Former Titans edge rusher Trevis Gipson has signed with the Jaguars.

Another one of the Tennessee Titans’ free agents has signed with a division rival.

The Jacksonville Jaguars announced on Monday that they have signed edge rusher Trevis Gipson, who spent the 2023 campaign with the Titans. The contract details have yet to be revealed.

Gipson is the third Titans free agent to sign with a division rival, along with defensive end Denico Autry and linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, both of whom landed with the Houston Texans.

The 26-year-old played sparingly last season, seeing just 76 defensive snaps over eight contests. His lack of playing time was one of the more puzzling things to take place last season.

I had Gipson on the radar as someone the Titans could bring back, especially after Autry, who worked at both defensive end and outside linebacker during his time in Tennessee, left for the Texans.

The Titans have yet to address either position in free agency, leaving the team very weak at defensive line, and dangerously thin at outside linebacker.

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Jaguars sign former Bears, Titans OLB Trevis Gipson

Trevis Gipson, who was once a fast rising star in the Bears defense, will look to get his career back on track with the Jaguars.

The Jacksonville Jaguars signed former Tennessee Titans outside linebacker Trevis Gipson, the team announced Monday.

Gipson, 26, was a fifth-round pick of the Chicago Bears in the 2020 NFL draft and played the first three seasons of his career with the team. While he recorded seven sacks and five forced fumbles in a breakout second season in 2021, Gipson struggled to make the transition to the Bears’ new defensive scheme under Matt Eberflus in 2022.

After recording only three sacks in 2022, Gipson was granted permission to search for a trade ahead of the 2023 season and was eventually released by the team in final cuts. He signed with the Titans in August, but was a healthy scratch in nine games and finished with only one sack.

In Jacksonville, Gipson will try to rediscover the momentum he had early in his career when he was seen as a fast rising and promising young pass rusher. The Jaguars could certainly use the edge rushing depth after getting very little out of K’Lavon Chaisson and Dawuane Smoot in 2023 and allowing both to reach the free agency market.

Terms of Gipson’s contract with the Jaguars haven’t yet been revealed.

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Listing one free agent from the Texans, Titans, Colts and Jaguars who could be a fit for the Chargers.

The Chargers won’t be aggressive when it comes to signing free agents.

General manager Joe Hortiz will make some moves to have some spendings available to them so they can sign some.

That said, I will list one pending free agent from each NFL team who could be a realistic target for L.A.

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The Tennessee Titans saw a solid year from their outside linebackers group, which was led by Harold Landry and Arden Key. However, things certainly could’ve been better.

As expected, Landry got off to a slow start in his return from a torn ACL, but the fact that he played as well as he did down the stretch was great news for his outlook. Ultimately, he finished with 10.5 sacks, the second-most of his career.

Key proved to be a serviceable starter with six sacks, the second-most of his career, but he wasn’t as consistent as we would’ve hoped for. If not for a six-week stretch with zero sacks, he would’ve had a career year.

Despite his flaws, Key is good enough to roll with once again in 2024.

Beyond those two, there wasn’t much to talk about. Trevis Gipson and Caleb Murphy barely played, and Rashad Weaver was very disappointing. Gipson’s one sack was the only one to come out of that trio.

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Titans’ biggest disappointments from the 2023 season

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During what was a frustrating 6-11 campaign, the Tennessee Titans had no shortage of disappointments, from individual players to entire position groups.

That fact shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as we always knew this past season was going to be a roll of the dice for the Titans.

After all, the team was strapped for cash during the offseason and had to bet on upside at several positions, both with players already on the roster and free-agent signings.

Sometimes that works out — and in the case of some players on this past year’s team, it did — but when it doesn’t, things can get ugly.

In what is our latest look back at the 2023 season, we’re going to go over the team’s six most disappointing players.