[C19fan]

I wonder what the Jaguars are trying to get back? What a waste of a draft pick on a position with the highest rate of depreciation. If I was a GM no RBs with a day 1 pick.

[V_TWIN]

Jax has always a knack for poor draft picks/strategy. If the jag front office is good at anything...it’s being bad at that. A few years ago they paid a wide receiver 12 mil. He was here 1 season and caught 2 TDs. Must be nice.

Also on a side note. lived here for 50 years...be a looong time before they get any of my hard earned $$.

[pepsi_junkie]

Here's the issue. Running backs are considered replaceable. You can get one in the draft that will make an immediate impact and most teams aren't trying to pound the rock anymore so they just need a 'good enough' running back. But the Rams and Cowboys paid Todd Gurley and Zeke Elliott a kings ransom and set the market for top tier RBs astronomically high. So when a very good RB is up for renewal he wants that sort of money and teams say 'nah, I think I'll just draft a guy in the 4th round'. Fournette will be wanting a gigantic contract moving forward and the jags are essentially rebuilding so they won't pay him but nobody else wants to pick that problem up either.

Basically this is a terrible time to be a very good but not elite RB looking for his first contract after his rookie one ends.

[montag813]

Fun to see the Muslim Jags owner spend tens of millions and have nothing to show for it.

[discostu]

They’re having a hard time trading anybody, Ngakoue is whining too. They must be asking too much.

[dfwgator]

And yet the idiot Cowboys decided to pay a middle-of-the-road quality RB in Ezekiel Elliot.

That’s one reason why teams don’t want to keep RBs, he set the price way too high.

[DoodleDawg]

Hard to get other teams to take your first round busts.

[Redwood71]

I’m not sure it’s him that is the problem. In 15 games last year he ran for over 1100 yards and had 76 receptions for another 500. But he only scored 3 touchdowns with all that. He got the yards, and the catches, but is not getting near the end zone. Something wrong with the system.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FourLe00.htm

rwood

[OrangeHoof]

Maybe the Jags will discount him to Threenette, or possibly Twonette...