JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars aren’t choosing up the fifth-year choice on linebacker Devin Lloyd, a league supply advised ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
Lloyd will now be set to develop into an unrestricted free agent after this season.
Lloyd was the twenty seventh total choose in 2022 and the Jaguars gave up the thirty third total choose, their fourth-round choose and sixth-round choose to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to maneuver again into the primary spherical to get him.
However whereas Lloyd has put up strong stats in his first three seasons — 355 tackles (he led the workforce with 113 in 2024), 4 interceptions, 19 move breakups and 4 fumble recoveries — he has struggled in move protection and has had points being out of place.
Lloyd is the third of the Jaguars’ six first-round picks from 2020-22 to not have his fifth-year choice picked up, becoming a member of 2020 first-round picks cornerback C.J. Henderson (ninth total, traded to the Carolina Panthers in September 2021) and linebacker Okay’Lavon Chaisson (twentieth total).
The Jaguars earlier this month introduced they had been choosing up the fifth-year choice on defensive finish Travon Walker, whom they drafted first total in 2022.
