{"id":755860,"date":"2026-02-16T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755860\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:53:19","slug":"dennis-gardeck-contract-projection-will-jaguars-re-sign-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755860\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Gardeck contract projection: Will Jaguars re-sign free agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a>\u00a0linebacker Dennis Gardeck is set to be a free agent this upcoming offseason.<\/p>\n

So what might his next contract look like, and will the\u00a0Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0re-sign him?<\/p>\n

Dennis Gardeck contract projection<\/p>\n

According to Spotrac, Gardeck is projected to sign a one-year deal in free agency worth $2.53 million. Gardeck will be entering his age 31 season.<\/p>\n

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In terms of player age, contract status, and statistical production, Derek Barnett, LJ Collier, and Joshua Uche were used by Spotrac as comparisons to determine what Gardeck’s deal could be.<\/p>\n

Will the Jaguars<\/a> re-sign Dennis Gardeck?<\/p>\n

The 2025 season was Gardeck’s first in Jacksonville, and he filled quite a few roles for this team.<\/p>\n

Listed as a linebacker, the majority of Gardeck’s snaps came as a pass rusher, although he saw opportunities at linebacker as well. Gardeck finished the season with 25 pressures, three sacks, and 35 total tackles.<\/p>\n

He was also a core special teams contributor, playing 283 snaps across five of the six different phases.<\/p>\n

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Gardeck is a player who, early on, caught the attention<\/a> of Liam Coen last season.<\/p>\n

With Devin Lloyd potentially heading elsewhere and depth at defensive end needed, my guess is that Gardeck returns — and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s on more than a one-year deal.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jacksonville Jaguars free agency: Dennis Gardeck contract prediction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars’\u00a0linebacker Dennis Gardeck is set to be a free agent this upcoming offseason. So what might his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[15149,12351,1215,5412,7,194,212,125,2401,213,18582,6],"class_list":["post-755860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-contract-status","tag-dennis-gardeck","tag-derek-barnett","tag-devin-lloyd","tag-football","tag-free-agent","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-joshua-uche","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116080175159212912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755860","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=755860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}