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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Jaguars have exercised the fifth-year option on fourth-year Pro Bowl CB Jalen Ramsey, the club announced today. Ramsey is now under contract with the Jaguars through the 2020 season.
Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey might be absent from the offseason workout program, but that hasn't stopped the team from voluntarily ensuring he's around through 2020.
The Jaguars announced Thursday that the organization has exercised the fifth-year option on Ramsey, who joined Jacksonville in 2016 as the fifth overall pick of the draft.
Jacksonville's announcement proved a formality ahead of the May 3 deadline when considering general manager David Caldwell told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine the team would pick up the option.
Since entering the league, Ramsey has earned a reputation as an elite cornerback while playing with one of the NFL's top defensive units.
Ramsey, who has totaled 193 career tackles, 44 passes defensed and nine INTs (one for TD), has started all 48 games since being drafted with the fifth overall selection in the 2016 NFL Draft. He has been selected to back-to-back Pro Bowls and finished the 2018 season with 65 tackles (59 solo), 13 passes defensed and three INTs. Ramsey is the only AFC CB to earn consecutive Pro Bowl bids, and he’s one of eight players in franchise history and just three on defense (DTs Marcus Stroudand John Henderson) to earn multiple Pro Bowl honors.
In Week 11 vs. Pittsburgh, Ramsey, 6-1, 208, became the youngest player in franchise history to register multiple INTs in a single game. His 11 career games with multiple passes defensed are the most by a player 24-or-younger in franchise history. In 2017, he was part of the NFL’s No. 1 passing defense and posted four INTs and 17 passes defensed en route to Associated Press first-team All-Pro honors. The Smyrna, Tenn. native played collegiately at Florida State University and earned unanimous All-America honors.
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