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Raiders Trade Wr Jakobi Meyers To Jaguars For Two Draft Picks

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The Las Vegas Raiders finally granted veteran Jakobi Meyers his trade. The Raiders are trading the wide receiver to the Jacksonville Jaguars for fourth and sixth-round picks, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported on Tuesday, per sources informed of the situation. The teams later announced the deal. The Jags have two fourth-round picks in 2026 -- their own and Minnesota's -- and the Raiders will get the higher of the two, Rapoport added. Meyers requested a trade months ago but was rebuffed by the organization. Even up until last week, the Raiders were setting a high cost to move on from a veteran.

Eventually, they found a price that made it worth parting with a player in the final year of his contract. The Jags had a need at receiver following Travis Hunter's knee injury, which knocked him out for at least four weeks. Second-year receiver Brian Thomas Jr. has struggled this season and has been banged up with a shoulder injury and exited Week 9 with an ankle injury. It's worth wondering if BTJ's issues are worse than they've let on. Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Jakobi Meyers requested a trade prior to the start of the regular season and he has now had his request fulfilled, as the Jacksonville Jaguars acquired him for fourth-...

Multiple teams were interested in Meyers at the trade deadline, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, ESPN reported. Ultimately, Liam Coen and James Gladstone land him. The Jaguars and Raiders coincidentally just played each other two days ago, with Jacksonville escaping "Sin City" with a 30-29 overtime victory. In that contest, Meyers caught four passes for 23 yards. The 28-year-old is in a contract year, and has caught 33 passes for 352 yards in seven games played this season. Meyers has recorded four straight seasons with at least 800 yards receiving, which includes his first NFL 1,000-yard receiving season in 2024.

However, new Raiders quarterback Geno Smith has thrown zero touchdowns compared to four interceptions when targeting Meyers this year. The Jaguars were in the market for a new wide receiver with No. 2 overall pick Travis Hunter on injured reserve and out for at least the next three games. Meyers joins a unit headlined by Brian Thomas Jr., who has caught just 50% of his targets this year, the lowest rate in the NFL among 33 players targeted at least 55 times. After averaging 75.4 receiving yards per game and 6.5 yards after the catch per reception as a rookie, Thomas averages just 52.5 yards per game and 3.7 YAC per reception this season. Despite the inconsistencies on offense, the 5-3 Jaguars are right in the playoff mix, and reside in second place in the AFC South behind the 7-2 Indianapolis Colts.

Jacksonville hopes Meyers can be a weapon that sets the Jags up for a playoff run. JACKSONVILLE – The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to terms with the Las Vegas Raiders to trade fourth and sixth-round selections in the 2026 draft in exchange for WR Jakobi Meyers, pending a physical, the... Meyers originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the New England Patriots in 2019 where he spent four seasons (2019-22) before joining the Raiders (2023-25) in free agency. His career totals include 426 receptions for 4,944 yards and 20 touchdowns in 98 games (76 starts). He also has totaled 11 carries for 54 yards and two touchdowns and completed six-of-seven passes for 100 yards and three touchdowns. Meyers registered career highs with 87 receptions for 1,027 yards as well as four receiving touchdowns in 2024.

The Lithonia, Ga. native played collegiately at North Carolina State University from 2015-18 where he transitioned from quarterback to wide receiver. Meyers registered 168 receptions for 1,932 yards and nine touchdowns with the Wolfpack. It's done. The trade that Jakobi Meyers requested prior to the season and reiterated recently has happened right at the deadline. And it was a surprise team that wasn't talked about much -- the Jaguars.

In recent days, it's been widely reported the Raiders were fielding calls for Meyers, but that their price tag was high. A fourth and sixth round pick is indeed pretty high. But to the Raiders' credit, they got what they were asking for. The Raiders are fresh off of playing the Jaguars. In that game Jacksonville saw two of their top receivers for the overtime period. This after sending top pick WR/CB Travis Hunter to IR earlier in the week.

So, where the Jaguars previously had little to no interest, they suddenly jumped into the mix. Meyers was looking for a long term extension this offseason from the Raiders, who had done so with other players on the team such as Maxx Crosby, AJ Cole, and Kolton Miller. But the team balked at that, instead wanting to let the final year of his contract play out first. Now midway through that season, the Raiders aren't looking like anything close to doing anything this season. Meanwhile the Jaguars are sitting at 5-3 and in the thick of the playoff hunt. Thus the Raiders are sellers and the Jaguars are buyers at the deadline.

The Raiders are trading receiver Jakobi Meyers to the Jaguars, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday, hours before the NFL trade deadline. In return, Jacksonville is sending fourth- and sixth-round picks to Las Vegas. Meyers was set to become a free agent this offseason. The Jaguars had 13 picks in the 2026 NFL draft, and now they’ve sent away two of those. The receiver requested a trade from the Raiders back in August, but Las Vegas had no intentions of trading him at the time. The request was sparked by Meyers not receiving an extension when entering the 2025 season on the last year of his deal.

When he was asked about this request just a couple weeks ago, Meyers expressed his desire to still end up elsewhere in a trade, but he knew he had no control over that. In the end, he got what he wanted. The Raiders just played the Jaguars on Sunday, with Jacksonville winning the matchup 30-29. The Jaguars are now 5-3 on the season, while the Raiders dropped to 2-6. This move comes after Jacksonville two-way star Travis Hunter landed on the injured reserve list on Friday with a knee injury. He will miss at least four games because of the injury.

Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The Las Vegas Raiders agreed to trade wide receiver Jakobi Meyes to the Jacksonville Jaguars for fourth- and sixth-round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, a league source told UPI on... Meyers, who requested a trade this off-season, totaled 352 yards on 33 catches through the first seven games of his 2025 season. The seven-year veteran logged 426 catches for 4,944 yards and 22 total touchdowns through his first 98 appearances in the NFL. Meyers, who spent his first four seasons with the New England Patriots, would join a Jaguars wide receivers room that includes Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter Jr.

The Jaguars placed Hunter on injured reserve last week because of a knee injury. Thomas sustained an ankle injury in the fourth quarter of the Jaguars' 30-29 win over the Raiders on Sunday in Las Vegas. Parker Washington, Dyami Brown, Tim Patrick and Austin Trammell are among the other wide receivers on the Jaguars' roster. Meyers' departure will leave the Raiders with Jack Bech, Tre Tucker, Tyler Lockett, Alex Bachman and Dont'e Thornton Jr. at wide receiver. The Raiders signed Lockett last week.

Adam Schefter joins Pat McAfee to break down the Jaguars trading for Jakobi Meyers. (1:03) Ahead of Tuesday's NFL trade deadline, the 5-3 Jacksonville Jaguars acquired receiver Jakobi Meyers from the 2-6 Las Vegas Raiders for fourth- and sixth-round selections in the 2026 NFL draft. Moving him wasn't a surprise, as Meyers was vocal about his desire to be traded. Meyers is in the final year of a three-year, $33 million contract that he signed in 2023 and figures to help the Jaguars' injured receivers group in the short term after WR/CB Travis Hunter... As for the Raiders, the trade helps them plan for the future.

But in the interim, what's next for the receivers room in Las Vegas? Jakobi Meyers initially requested a trade in August, when he and the Raiders were unable to reach an agreement on a new contract. Kiyoshi Mio / Imagn Images The Las Vegas Raiders traded wide receiver Jakobi Meyers to the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for fourth- and sixth-round picks, both teams announced on Tuesday. The conditional fourth-round pick will be the earlier of either Jacksonville’s or Minnesota’s picks in that round, per the Raiders. Meyers initially requested a trade in August, when he and the Raiders were unable to reach an agreement on a new contract.

In October, Meyers told reporters he remained firm in that request. The 28-year-old was in the final year of a three-year deal worth $33 million that he signed in 2023 with Las Vegas. Meyers’ final game with the Raiders was against the Jaguars on Sunday, a game in which he recorded four catches for 23 yards in a Jacksonville win. Before the game, he made a point of saying hello to Tony Boselli, the Jags’ executive vice president of football operations. Boselli’s son, Adam, was Meyers’ teammate at North Carolina State. Meyers also casually chatted up Jags coach Liam Coen at the game’s end.

Two days after facing off against one another, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders engineered a swap ahead of the NFL trade deadline. The Raiders agreed to send wide receiver Jakobi Meyers to the Jaguars in exchange for fourth- and sixth-round draft picks, according to multiple reports. For the Raiders, the deal represented a long-awaited split with the team's leading wideout, who sought to be moved before the season. The Jaguars, on the hand, added a reliable pass catcher for Trevor Lawrence at a time when his leading targets are injured. But who won out in the deal? Here's how we graded each team:

The Jaguars' hyperaggressive general manager took another page from the Los Angeles Rams' playbook and pursued a veteran at a key spot at the trade deadline. The splash factor doesn't measure up to what Les Snead has delivered in previous years, but it still aids Jacksonville's surprise resurgence in the AFC South.

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