What You Need to Know:

• A preseason calf injury cost Engram Week 1 and Week 2 of last season.
• He was active for the remaining 15 games, but an offense lacking direction helped limit him to only 46 catches, 408 yards and 3 TDs.
• Engram set career-lows in yards, yards per catch, yards after catch per reception and yards per route run.
• Engram finished as a TE1 in 6 weeks, maxing out as the TE7 in Week 16.
• Despite injury issues on the Giants offense, Engram handled a ho hum 12.9% target share on the year.
• Still only 28 (in September), the 6th-year pro signed a 1-year, $9 million deal in free agency.
• Engram said new HC Doug Pederson (and his history with TEs) was a big reason for signing in Jacksonville.
• The Eagles averaged a 32.3% target share in Pederson’s 5 seasons as HC. League average is ~20%.
• The Jags added Christian Kirk and Zay Jones in free agency. There’s not much target competition in a WR corps that also includes Marvin Jones, but they’re a deeper bunch than what we saw in ’21.
• Trevor Lawrence will learn a new system in year 2. After the failed Urban Meyer experiment, there’s nowhere to go but up for the former top pick.
• Engram has become known for picking up minor injuries. But we only have to go back to 2020 to see the last (and only) time he played a full slate of games.

Draft Sharks Bottom Line:

Engram needed to get away from the Giants to have any chance of kick-starting a mid-career rebound.

He did just that, signing a 1-year deal with the Jags this offseason.

The move supplies a coaching and QB upgrade, while targets shouldn't be too hard to come by on an offense that features Christian Kirk, Zay Jones, Marvin Jones and Travis Etienne.

He’s probably burned you before. But Engram — at a late-round cost — pairs sneaky upside with minimal risk.