Yannick Ngakoue done with Jacksonville Jaguars, screams for trade

Trade value

At the end of that exchange, Tony Khan talks about how Ngakoue is hurting his own trade value and in doing so, he is making it less likely that he will get traded.

However, if you are Ngakuoe and the team trading for you is offering a 3rd round pick and the Jaguars aren’t taking it, then what benefit is it for you to sit still and keep quiet? What sort of compensation do the Jaguars want for a player that clearly doesn’t want to be there and had a down year by his standard when they still have to pay him after the move?

On the other hand, the more that Ngakoue’s future team gives up for him, the less likely that team is to have long term success. Look at the Chicago Bears who traded the world for Khalil Mack, then paid him a record-breaking deal only to follow that up by being bad for the last two seasons.

Trading a 3rd round pick is much more palatable when you have to pay a player on top of the trade and it is more than the team trading the player away could hope to get in compensatory selections.

Again, if we are assuming a 3rd round pick is the minimum here then the Jaguars are getting:

-A better pick than they could have asked through the compensatory process

-No free agency restrictions to hold you back while you wait on the comp pick process

-More ammo to trade up and get your quarterback next year

And all that after they already told Ngakoue that they weren’t expecting him to play another game with Jacksonville after the 2019 season.