{"id":171814,"date":"2024-04-27T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=171814"},"modified":"2024-04-27T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T19:09:36","slug":"afc-contender-sends-19-sack-edge-defender-to-conference-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/04\/27\/afc-contender-sends-19-sack-edge-defender-to-conference-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Contender Sends 19-Sack Edge Defender To Conference Foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter, the New York Jets have agreed to trade edge defender John Franklin-Myers to the Denver Broncos. In exchange, Gang Green will receive a 2026 sixth-round pick. Franklin-Myers started his career with the Los Angeles Rams but spent the past four seasons with the Jets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another Jets-Broncos trade: Jets are sending DE John Franklin-Myers, who has started 50 games the past three seasons, to the Broncos in an exchange for a 2026 6th-round pick, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Within the past week, the Jets have traded Franklins-Myers and Zach Wilson to the Broncos. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sttoenIX1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sttoenIX1o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1784295202854724086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Broncos, Jets, Agree to John Franklin-Myers Trade<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/04\/01\/john-franklin-myers-trade-haason-reddick\/\" target=\"_self\">John Franklin-Myers trade rumors<\/a> have been swarming ever since the New York Jets acquired Haason Reddick from the Philadelphia Eagles. With cap space at a premium, New York decided to send away the veteran for essentially nothing while freeing up approximately $7.3 million in cap space.<\/p>\n<p>John Franklin-Myers originally joined the NFL as a fourth-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. Selected by the Los Angeles Rams, the S.F. Austin product spent the majority of his rookie campaign in a reserve role. Appearing in all 16 games, Franklin-Myers finished the 2018 season with two sacks, 10 tackles, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to make the Rams roster in 2019, Franklin-Myers quickly landed with New York. However, he couldn&#8217;t see the field and spent most of the season on the injured reserve. Fortunately, he saved his career with a strong 2020. Appearing in 15 games while making two starts, John Franklin-Myers recorded three sacks, 19 tackles, five tackles-for-loss, and 13 quarterback hits. He earned a starting job early in 2021 and signed a three-year, $55 million extension midway through the season. He immediately rewarded that trust by recording six sacks, 35 tackles, six tackles-for-loss, and 14 quarterback hits while starting in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the trade, John Franklin-Myers remained productive in 2022 and 2023, recording 8.5 sacks over that two-year frame. Since entering the league, the former fourth-round pick has appeared in 81 games while making 52 starts. While on the field, the S.F. Austin product has recorded 19.5 sacks, 135 tackles, 21 tackles-for-loss, and 61 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main\u00a0 Photo: Brad Penner &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have agreed to a trade that will send edge defender John Franklin-Myers to the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":171817,"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":[36,15,6],"tags":[7305,8511,7330],"class_list":["post-171814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-broncos","category-jets","tag-denver-broncos-news","tag-john-franklin-myers","tag-new-york-jets-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171814","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\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}