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Source: Jags decline to pick up Joeckel’s option
- Updated: May 2, 2016
4:40 PM ET
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars are not picking up the fifth-year option on left tackle Luke Joeckel, whom they drafted with the No. 2 overall pick in 2013, according to a league source.
It wasn’t a surprise, given that Joeckel has been at best an average player and the team signed former Pittsburgh Steelers left tackle Kelvin Beachum in free agency and announced that the two would compete to be the starter in 2016.
When the rookie wage scale was created in 2011, it mandated that all first-year players sign four-year deals, but it also included a clause that allows teams to extend the contract for one more season. Since Joeckel was the No. 2 overall pick in 2013, he would be paid the average of the 10 highest left tackle salaries from the previous year.
In 2015, for example, that number was $11.096 million. Joeckel is scheduled to earn $3.296 million in base salary in 2016, so had the Jaguars exercised the fifth-year option Joeckel’s 2017 salary would have been between $11 and $12 million.
The Jaguars can still try to negotiate a new contract with Joeckel before his contract expires or they could let him become free agent and then try to sign him to a second contract. They also could let him walk.
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