{"id":375693,"date":"2026-08-19T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:34:08","slug":"jacksonville-jaguars-to-trade-for-new-york-giants-guard-daniel-faalele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375693\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Jaguars to trade for New York Giants guard Daniel Faalele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 19 (UPI) &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Jacksonville-Jaguars\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jacksonville Jaguars\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> agreed to trade a late-round pick in the 2027 NFL Draft to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/New_York_Giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Giants\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Giants<\/a> in exchange for right guard Daniel Faalele, a league source told UPI on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Faalele, a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, spent his first four seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Baltimore-Ravens\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Baltimore Ravens\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>. The Giants signed the veteran offensive lineman to a one-year contract in April.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars listed Patrick Mekari as their starting right guard on their first unofficial depth chart for 2026. A source told NFL Network on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-aug-19#jaguars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mekari recently underwent back<\/a> surgery, but the Jaguars have not said if he will be placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>That designation could trigger an automatic four-game absence and a need for depth on the interior of the Jaguars&#8217; offensive line.<\/p>\n<p>Ezra Cleveland is listed as the Jaguars&#8217; starting left guard, with Anton Harrison and Walker Little set as their starting tackles. Robert Hainsey is listed as their starting center.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Pregnon, Wyatt Milum and Jerome Carvin are among the Jaguars&#8217; backup guards.<\/p>\n<p>Faalele, 26, started all 17 games for the Ravens each of the last two seasons. The 6-foot-8, 370-pound right guard also spent time as a backup right tackle during his four-year run with the Ravens.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was listed as a backup left guard, behind starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Jon_Runyan\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jon Runyan\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jon Runyan<\/a>, on the Giants&#8217; first unofficial depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Football Focus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">listed Faalele as the No. 29<\/a> guard among those who were in for at least 80% of the maximum snaps played at the position in 2025. He ranked No. 31 among qualifying guards in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Carolina_Panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolina Panthers\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> in a preseason meeting at 7:30 p.m. EDT Friday in Jacksonville, Fla. They will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Tampa-Bay-Buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tampa Bay Buccaneers\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> in their preseason finale Aug. 28 at EverBank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Cleveland-Browns\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cleveland Browns\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> in their regular season opener Sept. 13 in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 19 (UPI) &#8212; The Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to trade a late-round pick in the 2027 NFL Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10103,7600,10575,116,118,121,117,151412,10827,2964],"class_list":["post-375693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jon-runyan","tag-new-york-giants","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375693","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=375693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}