{"id":113632,"date":"2025-08-27T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113632\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:34:07","slug":"jaguars-trading-for-lions-wr-tim-patrick-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113632\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars trading for Lions WR Tim Patrick, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael DiRoccoAug 27, 2025, 07:04 AM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Michael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN and the Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jaguars<\/a> finally found the big wide receiver for which they were searching, acquiring the Detroit Lions<\/a>‘ Tim Patrick<\/a> for a 2026 sixth-round pick, a league source told ESPN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Patrick, at 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, will be the tallest and heaviest wide receiver on the Jaguars’ roster. At 31 years old, he is also the oldest.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars had been interested in adding a bigger receiver for weeks and had attempted to acquire Devaughn Vele<\/a> (6-5, 210) from the Broncos<\/a>, but New Orleans<\/a> gave Denver a better deal, sending a 2026 fourth-round pick and a 2027 seventh-round pick.<\/p>\n

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The trade adds Patrick to a Jacksonville wide receiver room that includes second-year wideout Brian Thomas Jr.<\/a>, two-way rookie Travis Hunter<\/a> and Dyami Brown<\/a>, who signed a one-year deal with the Jaguars this offseason.<\/p>\n

Patrick has 176 catches for 2,403 yards and 15 touchdowns in four seasons with Denver and one season with Detroit. Patrick had re-signed with the Lions during the offseason after finishing with 33 receptions for 394 yards and three touchdowns in his second year with Detroit in 2024.<\/p>\n

He did not play in 2022 because of a torn ACL and did not play in 2023 because of a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n

This is the third trade the Jaguars have made in the past 10 days. On Aug. 17, Jacksonville sent center Luke Fortner<\/a> to New Orleans for nose tackle Khalen Saunders<\/a>, just hours after the teams played a preseason game in the Caesars Superdome.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Jaguars sent offensive tackle Fred Johnson<\/a> to the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> for a seventh-round pick in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael DiRoccoAug 27, 2025, 07:04 AM ET CloseMichael DiRocco is an NFL Nation reporter at ESPN and covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-113632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}