{"id":185283,"date":"2026-03-10T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:13:12","slug":"jaguars-lose-devin-lloyd-to-carolina-panthers-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185283\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars Lose Devin Lloyd to Carolina Panthers in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Devin-Lloyd.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Devin Lloyd, Carolina Panthers\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Devin Lloyd #0 of the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrates after intercepting a pass during the third quarter against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi&#8217;s Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars are losing players left and right on day one of NFL free agency.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2031188179684933966?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\"> According to multiple reports<\/a>, Jags\u2019 star linebacker <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/devin-lloyd\/\" title=\"Devin Lloyd\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"186161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Lloyd<\/a> has agreed to terms with the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"Carolina Panthers\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"186160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>. Lloyd had been considered a consensus top 10-15 free agent across the league. The deal is three-years worth up to $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>The former first-round draft pick out of Utah had spent his first four NFL seasons with the Jaguars, and now presumably lands a multi-year deal with the Panthers. The Pro Bowl linebacker had five interceptions in 2025, including a 99-yard pick-six. He has nine total interceptions in his career to go along with 436 total tackles.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Heavy: <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/rico-dowdle-signs-steelers-signing-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rico Dowdle Signs with Steelers in NFL Free Agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Devin Lloyd Signs with Panthers<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5820115\" class=\"size-inline wp-image-5820115\" data-lazy-load=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773123192_370_Devin-Lloyd.jpg\" alt=\"Devin Lloyd, Carolina Panthers\" width=\"782\" height=\"521\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5820115\" class=\"size-inline wp-image-5820115\" data-lazy-load=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773123192_370_Devin-Lloyd.jpg\" alt=\"Devin Lloyd, Carolina Panthers\" width=\"782\" height=\"521\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5820115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GettyDevin Lloyd #0 of the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrates after intercepting a pass during the third quarter against the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"San Francisco 49ers\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"186159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> at Levi\u2019s Stadium on September 28, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars also lost running back <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/trevor-etienne\/\" title=\"Trevor Etienne\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"186162\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Etienne<\/a> Jr. to free agency on Monday, and after having a very successful 2025 season, the Jags will have to fill the shoes of both Devin Lloyd and Etienne Jr. Two big losses on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Lloyd had been a standout linebacker since day one in a Jags uniform. He\u2019s started 61 of 63 games that he\u2019s played in over his four-year NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>However, for the Carolina Panthers, they have had a solid day one of free agency by beefing up their linebacker core with two solid players in Devin Lloyd and Jaelen Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on the Devin Lloyd signing\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Jaguars\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Devin Lloyd #0 of the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrates after intercepting a pass during the third quarter against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-185283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}