{"id":130808,"date":"2022-03-07T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=130808"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:55:04","slug":"folorunso-fatukasi-signs-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2022\/03\/07\/folorunso-fatukasi-signs-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Folorunso Fatukasi Signs With Jacksonville Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL defensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Folorunso Fatukasi<\/a> has signed a new contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The veteran has spent the first four seasons of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FatuFo00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jaguars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Jaguars<\/a> giving DT Foley Fatukasi three years, $30 million with $20 million fully guaranteed, per his agents at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPORTSTARSNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SPORTSTARSNYC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/1503428554096271363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Folorunso Fatukasi, Jacksonville Jaguars, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>One thing that jumps out about Folorunso Fatukasi is in 2021 he played just 53% of defensive snaps. Yet, on a team that rotates their defensive linemen as much as the Jets, his 558 snaps were a career-high. Fatukasi wound up posting career-highs in total tackles, quarterback hits and started all 15 games he played in. He also registered five tackles for a loss, eight quarterback pressures, but no sacks. Fatukasi has become one of the stop run-stuffers in the league in four seasons, and the potential is still there to become a three-down defensive tackle. After all, 2021 marked his first year in the pros playing in a 4-3 scheme, as opposed to the 3-4 scheme he began his career in.<\/p>\n<p>Folorunso Fatukasi entered the NFL in 2018 as a sixth-round pick out of Connecticut. One of the rare day three successes for former Jets General Manager Mike Maccagnan, Fatukasi only dressed for one game as a rookie, before taking on a rotational role his second year. He became Steven McLendon&#8217;s backup, before taking the job halfway through 2020, following McLendon&#8217;s mid-season trade. From 2019-to 2020, Fatukasi saw more playtime, starting eight of 29 games played, with 69 tackles, three sacks, and 13 tackles for a loss. A large part of the reason the team was comfortable dealing McLendon is because of Fatukasi&#8217;s potential. Nevertheless, Fatukasi&#8217;s pass-rushing ability has yet to come to fruition as of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On March 4th, 2022, Fatukasi turned 27-years-old, meaning his best years could still be ahead of him. His size at 6&#8217;4&#8243; and 318-pounds and scheme versatility are sought out by any team in today&#8217;s league. 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The veteran has spent the first four seasons of his career with the New York Jets. #Jaguars giving DT Foley Fatukasi three years, $30 million with $20 million fully guaranteed, per his agents at @SPORTSTARSNYC &mdash; Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) March 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3024,"featured_media":130815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8848,6894,246],"class_list":["post-130808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","tag-2022-nfl-free-agency","tag-folorunso-fatukasi","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}