{"id":851912,"date":"2026-04-03T20:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:36:20","slug":"report-jaguars-sign-former-no-1-pick-travon-walker-to-4-year-100-million-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851912\/","title":{"rendered":"Report | Jaguars sign former No. 1 pick Travon Walker to 4-year, $100 million extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deal includes $77 million guaranteed. Walker was a key player on the NFL&#8217;s No. 1 rush defense in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 One of the standout players of a Jaguars defense that allowed the fewest rushing yards per game in the NFL in 2025-26 is getting a major payday, ESPN&#8217;s senior NFL insider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2040160701428191625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Adam Schefter reported Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive end Travon Walker signed a four-year, $100 million extension, according to Schefter, which includes $77 million guaranteed and $50 million fully guaranteed at signing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 No. 1 overall pick has become a defensive standout for the Jags, recording 10 sacks in both 2023 and 2024. While his sack total dropped to 3.5 in 2025, this was still good for the third-highest on a defense aimed towards stopping the run. His 38 total tackles ranked second among Jags defensive linemen behind Josh Hines-Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal includes $77 million guaranteed. Walker was a key player on the NFL&#8217;s No. 1 rush defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116342698705904203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851912","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=851912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}