{"id":429457,"date":"2023-03-08T16:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429457"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:25:58","slug":"jaguars-release-cb-griffin-to-save-13-1m-against-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jaguars-release-cb-griffin-to-save-13-1m-against-salary-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars release CB Griffin to save $13.1M against salary cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/jacksonville-jaguars\/\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> cut high-priced cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/shaquill-griffin\/\">Shaquill Griffin<\/a> on Wednesday in a move that has been expected move for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">The veteran&#8217;s release will save the NFL team $13.1 million against the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">The 27-year-old Griffin tweaked his back early last season and was essentially benched before going on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">He was scheduled to count $17.1 million against the cap next season, a number too big for a team doing everything it can to create enough space to sign a few key guys in free agency and afford its draft class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">Griffin should have plenty of options to land elsewhere. He has started 72 games over six seasons with Seattle and Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">He had six interceptions for the Seahawks before signing a three-year, $40 million contract with the Jaguars in free agency in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">He would have been guaranteed $5.5 million in salary and bonuses had he been on Jacksonville\u2019s roster for the third day of the new league year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-54 p Component-p-0-2-45\">The Jaguars seemingly lost confidence in him after he struggled early last season and moved forward with a starting tandem of <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/tyson-campbell\/\">Tyson Campbell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/darious-williams\/\">Darious Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars cut high-priced cornerback Shaquill Griffin on Wednesday in a move that has been expected move for months. The veteran&#8217;s release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429458,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17169],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He was scheduled to count $17.1 million against the cap next season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429457"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429457"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}