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Now with draft stuff done, trade announcement

Jaguars receive:
QB Kirk Cousins (85 overall, 31 years old)
RT Riley Reiff (88, 29)
LE Brick Massey (83, 35)

Seahawks receive:
QB Tim Tebow (86, 32)
CB Stephon Gillmore (80, 30)
LE Mario Edwards Jr. (83, 25)

Jaguars incur a $3.23 mil cap penalty next season and turn $18.24 mil in cap hits into $15.46 mil in cap hits

Seahawks incur a $5.05 mil cap penalty to turn $19.46 mil in cap hits into $14.83 mil in cap hits

Tim Tebow was demanding a trade from the Jaguars, and the Seahawks had a veteran QB under contract for multiple seasons. They get a veteran QB back with quite the injury history, but he is in the Top 10 in career passer rating among active QBs with 500+ attempts. They also get an upgrade at RT in Reilly Reiff who has a solid career 8.5 blocks per sack allowed, which is higher than their current starting RT. Finally, they get a veteran pass-rushing specialist back with 89 career sacks. CB Gillmore, while a very useful player with many years left in his career, was working in the slot. The big loss is Edwards who looked to be a rising star with 7 sacks and 4 FFs in his debut starting season, but they had to give up something to receive something.

QB Kirk Cousins was a great QB for the Seahawks, but his injury history was definitely something of a concern. While he is heads and shoulders above Tebow, Tebow provides less of a future obstacle than Cousins for 1st round pick Gardner Minshew. Tebow and has just one year left on his deal and is older. There aren't many avenues outside of the draft to get quality starting CBs, so getting Gillmore here who could provide five seasons or so of useful starting/slot work is a good move. Arguably more important than providing less roadblocks for Minshew is receiving Edwards Jr who could team up with the young, 90+ DT duo of Kawann Short and Timmy Jernigan and the highly underrated and fringe Hall of Fame candidate DE Josh Julmiste to form the best DL this team has maybe ever seen. Losing Reiff leaves them so bare at OL but allows them to basically go scorched earth.

Jaguars understood the trade parameters, financial impact, histories of players involved, and what each team hoped to achieve. This trade is official.