FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Tennessee Titans are reportedly signing Calvin Ridley to a four-year deal price $92 million with $50 million absolutely assured. The signing was first reported by NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport.
Although Ridley has not performed for the Falcons group in over a 12 months’s time, the commerce settlement that in the end despatched Ridley to Jacksonville for the 2023 season had draft compensation hooked up to it that may have an effect on future Falcons draft picks.
In abstract: The Falcons traded Ridley to the Jaguars on the commerce deadline in November 2022. On the time, Ridley was suspended for violating the league’s playing coverage. The deal ensured that the Falcons would obtain two future draft picks from the Jaguars in change for Ridley. The precise compensation would rely on Ridley’s future within the league, although.
When Ridley was reinstated in March 2023 following his suspension, the Falcons acquired a 2023 fifth-round choose. That was the primary domino to fall. The second would take time, and the season’s finish. The second choose within the commerce was a conditional 2023 fourth-round choose with choices to rise. Step one was Ridley’s manufacturing in 2023. If Ridley performed in 60% of the Jaguars’ offensive snaps and/or recorded 75 receptions or 1,000 receiving yards in 2023, the fourth-round choose would flip right into a third-round choose.
Ridley ended up ending the season having performed in 17 video games, beginning all of them, for the Jaguars. He accrued 1,016 receiving yards on 76 catches in 2023, scoring eight touchdowns.
The ultimate a part of the commerce settlement indicated that if the Jaguars signed Ridley to a long-term deal earlier than the beginning of the 2024 league 12 months, the 2023 third-round choose would flip right into a second-round choose. Although it was reported the Jaguars have been desirous about protecting Ridley in Jacksonville, he in the end landed with the Titans on the four-year deal.
So, ultimately, the commerce reached completion with the Jaguars sending the Falcons the No. 79 general choose within the 2024 NFL Draft.