{"id":360068,"date":"2025-09-11T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360068\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:02:15","slug":"trade-jaguars-send-tank-bigsby-to-the-eagles-for-2026-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360068\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade: Jaguars send Tank Bigsby to the Eagles for 2026 draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

After leading the Jacksonville Jaguars in all rushing categories last season, Tank Bigsby accounted for just 12 of the team\u2019s 200 rushing yards in its dominant Week 1 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

24 hours after the game, Ian Rapoport reported that Bigsby has been traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for 2026 fifth and sixth round picks.<\/p>\n

The Eagles \u201cliked Bigsby\u2019s effectiveness as a kickoff returner\u201d according to The Athletic\u2019s Brooks Kubena<\/a>. Bigsby\u2019s 28.5 yards per return ranks 10th out of 54 players (min. 10 kick returns) since he entered the league in 2023.<\/p>\n

He had a 20-yard return on Sunday in the debut of the league\u2019s new dynamic kickoff rule<\/a>, which was designed to promote returns. The design worked. According to ESPN\u2019s Bill Barnwell<\/a>, the NFL\u2019s Week 1 touchback rate on kickoffs dropped from 64.5% in 2024 to 18.6% this season.<\/p>\n

With Bigsby out of the fold, Jacksonville\u2019s primary kick returners figure to be Parker Washington and Bhayshul Tuten.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s belief in Tuten and fellow Day 3 rookie LeQuint Allen allowed the Jaguars to continue to stock draft capital. Those two will mix in on offense behind lead back Travis Etienne, who posted over 150 yards from scrimmage in Week 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could feel [Etienne] all day,\u201d head coach Liam Coen said postgame. \u201cYou definitely felt him being a little bit — having a little bit more burst maybe than other guys on the grass. He looked fresh. He looked fast. He took care of the football. Proud of him. He did a great job, but the whole unit, really all the way through the end of the game, ran the ball effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bigsby finished his Jaguars career with 223 carries for 910 yards (4.1 yards per carry) and 9 touchdowns, plus 8 receptions for 60 yards.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville now has a league-high 13 picks in next year\u2019s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the trade, Jaguars fans? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leading the Jacksonville Jaguars in all rushing categories last season, Tank Bigsby accounted for just 12 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,2409,2406,2407,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-depth-chart","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-news","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars-roster","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115186981346825393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}