Updated March 6, 2026, 10:43 p.m. ET
The Las Vegas Raiders are trading star pass rusher Maxx Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens. The Jacksonville Jaguars, however, were reportedly among the teams also in the mix.
To acquire Crosby, the Ravens are trading their 2026 first-round pick and their 2027 first-round pick to the Raiders.
According to The Athletic’s Dianna Russini, the Ravens, along with the Dallas Cowboys, had been working on this deal for days, keeping communication lines open with the Raiders.
But the Jaguars were also putting together a trade package of their own.
“The Jacksonville Jaguars were another team trying to put together a big trade package that would get it done,” Russini said in a post on X.
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What the Jaguars’ trade package consisted of or how close it was to matching Baltimore’s, we do not know. There would have been obvious challenges, however, in making this deal happen.
Without the Jaguars having a first-round pick in this year’s draft, presumably it would have been difficult to match the Ravens’ offer.
Crosby also comes with a $30 million base salary for the 2026 season. In order to get a deal done, the Jaguars would need that amount of cap space and then some to make additional roster moves this offseason.
Currently, the Jaguars are $6.04 million over the 2026 salary cap, according to Over the Cap. That’s not an impossible jump but it is certainly a big one and not an easy one to make.
Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union asked if Jacksonville was ever seriously in pursuit of Crosby. His source said, “No.”
(This article will be updated.)