{"id":21014,"date":"2025-09-13T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T10:55:41","slug":"jaguars-trade-rb-tank-bigsby-to-eagles-for-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=21014","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars trade RB Tank Bigsby to Eagles for draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<p>Tim McManus<span class=\"timestamp \">Sep 8, 2025, 07:59 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close<\/p>\n<ul>Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine&#8217;s Birds 24\/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Philadelphia Eagles have acquired running back Tank Bigsby from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for 2026 fifth- and sixth-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>The deal for Bigsby marks the fifth trade the Eagles have made since mid-August. The flurry of roster moves also brought receiver John Metchie III, quarterback Sam Howell and offensive lineman Fred Johnson to the defending Super Bowl champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles were scheduled to have four 2026 fifth-round picks and still have three remaining after the Bigsby trade.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Bigsby, 24, rushed for 766 yards and seven touchdowns last season and also averaged 32.5 yards per kick return. The Eagles see Bigsby as a kick returner and remain high on their running back room, which is led by Saquon Barkley and also features AJ Dillon and second-year player Will Shipley.<\/p>\n<p>In Jacksonville, Bigsby shared first-team carries with Travis Etienne Jr., who is playing on the fifth-year option, in the first half of training camp. Etienne won the job as the Jaguars&#8217; primary ball carrier by the end of camp and delivered in their season opener &#8212; 143 yards on 16 carries in a 26-10 victory over Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Bigsby, who carried five times for 12 yards against the Panthers, became expendable when the Jaguars in April drafted two running backs: Bhayshul Tuten out of Virginia Tech in the third round and LeQuint Allen Jr. out of Syracuse in the seventh. They combined for four carries against the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars selected Bigsby in the third round of the 2023 draft out of Auburn. He had 910 yards and nine rushing touchdowns in 34 games with the Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN&#8217;s Michael DiRocco contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim McManusSep 8, 2025, 07:59 PM ET Close Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine&#8217;s Birds 24\/7, a site he helped create, since 2010. PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The Philadelphia Eagles have acquired running back Tank Bigsby from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[12890,1284,7765,8537,1830,12889,430],"class_list":{"0":"post-21014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bigsby","9":"tag-draft","10":"tag-eagles","11":"tag-jaguars","12":"tag-picks","13":"tag-tank","14":"tag-trade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}