The Jaguars used the No. 9 overall pick last year on cornerback C.J. Henderson. Although the young defender saw his rookie season cut short, he was viewed as a foundational piece for the franchise. Jacksonville’s new regime may not feel the same way.
Multiple NFL executives believe Henderson is now available via trade, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com tweets. Buzz around the league has surfaced that the Jaguars are shopping the second-year corner, Fowler adds. This would certainly be a surprising development, but new decision-makers are running the show now in north Florida.
Henderson, the second corner off the board last year, just came back off the Jags’ reserve/COVID-19 list. While the ex-Florida Gator and the Jags are believed to have a good relationship, Fowler tweets, the prospect he will be traded after one season now appears to be in play.
The Jags’ Dave Caldwell–Doug Marrone regime drafted Henderson and plugged him into the starting lineup in Week 1 of last season. Henderson arrived as the centerpiece of the team’s new-look cornerback group, following the trades of Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye. Henderson played in eight games in 2020 but landed on IR in November. Henderson subsequently underwent shoulder labrum surgery. Pro Football Focus graded him as a middle-of-the-pack corner in 2020.
Urban Meyer and GM Trent Baalke have added some notable cornerback pieces this offseason, signing Shaquill Griffin and drafting Tyson Campbell in the second round. Henderson would seemingly still have a starting job in Jacksonville, should the team stand pat, but he would also generate interest. After a rookie season in which Henderson played just half the Jags’ games, however, his trade value may not produce a first-round pick. But given that the Jags covered Henderson’s rookie-contract signing bonus, he will obviously fetch the franchise a notable trade haul. The 22-year-old cover man is signed through 2023, with a fifth-year option covering 2024, and a team that trades for him would only be responsible for his rookie-scale base salaries.
If this is true, Pittsburgh should be on the horn as of yesterday. They had some Interest in him around draft time. I know Chark is hurt.c maybe a deal CJ for James Washington and a 4 or 5…?
Washington has 1 year left and Henderson has 4.
If anything it’d be Washington, a 2nd and 5th.
Jags aren’t going to trade Henderson for a 1 year gamble on Washington. Theyll want a 2nd bare minimum. I’m sure there will be interest in Henderson who’s 1 year removed from being a top 10 pick.
Because your drafted in the top 10, doesn’t mean your worth a top 10 pick.. he’s fallen out of Favor and they signed people at his Postion, good dudes too. Now I agree a straight trade is not happening, nor did I ever state that it was. But Washington who has proved him self as a solid receiver, but adding a 2nd AND a 5TH is maybe overkill. When Washington has been rumored to be worth a 3rd-4th. Now Washington and a 2nd that would be a absolute high I’d imagine any teams give, if not more.
Washington and a 2nd for Henderson wouldn’t be a bad proposal, but if that’s the best offer coming in, I would just hang on to him.
Kyle, you must not understand how trades work in the NFL. CB is more valuable than WR first of all. 2nd, Washington is on a rental for any team that acquires him, while Henderson has almost his entire rookie contract left. Also, Washington isn’t proven. He’s as proven as Anthony Miller who just got traded for a 5th, with CHI sending a 7th back LOL show me links of Washington being worth a 3rd-4th. Oh, and Miller was drafted higher than Washington as well. What does that tell ya?
Your rant makes little to no sense. Yes a CB is worth more, if he plays as if he is worth more. Just because he was a top 10 pick doesn’t mean he’s a top 10 value, just like Miller wasn’t worth the value he was drafted at. You also want to compare players solely on stats and not ability it seems. Washington is buried on a target list that includes Juju, Johnson, Claypool and Ebron. I could easily say Washington has proved to be more worthy by taking advantage of the chances he gets. But you can LOL and act all intelligent ny asking for links, but you just seem to want to make yourself sound right by typing a long ranting message that is meaningless. Talent is talent. It’s not based on where you were drafted.
Wanna talk talent? So are you saying Henderson isn’t talented then? Even in that sense, he comes nowhere close to Henderson in that aspect as well. And NOW he’s buried behind 3 WRs. He had 2 years without Claypool to perform and showout, but never did. Claypool immediately took reps away from Washington. That means PIT also considers him a WR4. Its not even intelligence I’m speaking, just common sense lol
Never said he was worth a top 10 pick. What I did say is he’s 1 year removed from being drafted in the top 10 as one of the best corners coming out of college in 2020. He was a consensus 1st round draft pick.
I also said the Jaguars, who aren’t exactly deep at corner, aren’t going to trade 4 years of Henderson for 1 year of Washington + a 4th or 5th rounder. Not happening.
Jaguars are shopping him because he probably doesn’t fit the system. That doesn’t mean it devalues him in anyway as a bust after 1 season; new coaching staff, new systems, players drafted by older staffs for old systems sometimes don’t fit.
There will be interest. If steelers offer Washington and a 4th some other team will easily beat that offer, easily.
Minimum is a 2nd rounder most likely.
As a steelers fan ur proposal would b great! But as a realist there’s no way Jacksonville goes for that. Probably more like Washington, a 2nd and a young corner of there choosing. Like the kid from Michigan State drafted a couple years ago. Henderson had a very respectable run in a tough WR division as a rookie thrown into the fire day 1 replacing an All Pro and a Above average starter on the other side. So for Pittsburg to offer just that they’d probably get hung up on
This thread is interesting. There is no guarantee Henderson is going to bring a multiple player (pick plus a current player or multiple picks) return. The man is not that established. Much more likely is one draft pick (maybe a third-or-fourth rounder) or a pick and swap of players to fill team needs.
Boy I wish you were the Jags GM. I’d have taken him off your hands yesterday and asked who else you were shopping.
They wont move him for less than a 2nd, simply because they have no reason or need to. And if they sent a league-wide text saying “bidding starts at a 3rd, they’d likely have half the team returning their call to get in on the action.
Sorry, but he was ranked middle tier as a CB last year, was a top 10 pick and has multiple years on a very team friendly contract, that is a high second at worst, probably a first.
We are not talking about someone who came in and stank. We are not talking about a head case or clubhouse cancer. We are talking about a rookie who just graded out middle of the NFL in his first year! Sure, some might grade higher, but most teams would be ecstatic with that.
He will garner a ton of interest, but there is no doubt teams love to hang on to those 1st rounders. Some team with a need at CB, low cap room, and probable to have a low first will offer up a second and if they balk throw their first at them instead with a 3/5 pick swap or something.
Chicago is on the make for young CB if he would go for a 3rd round pick and Trufant
I’d like my Dolphins to get em . Be good to develop him n get him use to the system, then trade Byron Jones next season
This has Philly low balling them written all over it. See every jag on the trade block in the past.