Jaguars release Pro Bowl tight end Evan Engram; cap cuts continue: reports

Cutting costs was a taxable for the Jacksonville Jaguars Thursday, and Pro Bowl choky extremity Evan Engram became a headdress casualty, according to aggregate reports. 

Earlier successful the day, Christian Kirk, the seasoned wide receiver who was going to beryllium released anyway, was traded to the Houston Texans successful speech for a 2026 seventh-round pick, according to The Athletic. 

Kirk carried the team’s heftiest headdress deed astatine $24.1 million, and the squad is scheduled to prevention conscionable implicit $10 cardinal by getting him disconnected the books, according to Over The Cap. 

Engram was the second-biggest headdress deed for Jacksonville for the 2025 play astatine $19.49 million, per Over the Cap. By releasing him, the Jags are absorbing $13.5 cardinal successful dormant headdress wealth and redeeming conscionable nether $6 million. 

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Jacksonville Jaguars choky extremity Evan Engram (17) makes a drawback against the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Eric Hartline/Imagn Images)

Jacksonville’s caller GM, James Gladstone, who was hired Feb. 21, is showcasing his contiguous program to make headdress abstraction for escaped cause moves, portion keeping his 2025 NFL Draft people successful mind. 

The determination for Kirk makes consciousness considering the Jags inactive person wide receivers Brian Thomas Jr., Gabe Davis and Parker Washington. Kirk, a seven-year veteran, besides has an wounded history.

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However, Engram had a breakout play successful 2023, his 2nd Pro Bowl year, with 114 catches for 963 yards and 4 touchdowns. 

Jacksonville Jaguars choky extremity Evan Engram catches a walk earlier a crippled Oct. 27, 2024, astatine EverBank Stadium successful Jacksonville, Fla. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union)

But Engram besides dealt with injuries successful 2024, tearing a labrum that required mid-December surgery. He besides sat retired Weeks 2-5 with a hamstring injury, limiting him to 9 games. 

Engram finished the twelvemonth with 47 receptions for 365 yards and 1 touchdown. 

The 30-year-old was a first-round prime by the New York Giants successful 2017 retired of Ole Miss, and helium had an up-and-down vocation successful 5 seasons earlier signing with the Jaguars. 

Jacksonville Jaguars choky extremity Evan Engram against the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Eric Hartline/Imagn Images)

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Now a escaped agent, Engram volition beryllium searching for a choky end-needy squad — the Los Angeles Chargers, Chicago Bears and Denver Broncos could beryllium looking successful that section — portion the Jaguars volition caput into adjacent play with Brenton Strange, Shawn Bowman and Patrick Murtagh connected the extent chart. 

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