NFL Free Agency: JaMycal Hasty signs new contract
After spending the 2022 season with the Jacksonville Jaguars, former Baylor star JaMycal Hasty has decided to stick with the franchise for another year. The Jaguars signed him on Sunday night to a two-year, max value contract worth $3.2 million, per Aaron Wilson of The Houston Chronicle.
Hasty went undrafted in the 2020 NFL Draft, before being picked up by the San Francisco 49ers. He spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons with the 49ers, serving in a backup role at the running back position. In 2022, he served the same role with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In 36 games thus far in his NFL career, Hasty has rushed for 410 total yards and four touchdowns.
During his college career with the Baylor Bears, Hasty had a pretty decent career, earning honorable mention All-Big 12 honors in the 2019 season, after he racked up a career-high 627 yards and seven touchdowns. He finished his career in Waco with 1,998 total rushing yards, which ranked the 12th most in Baylor football history.
More on the 2023 NFL offseason, free agency
The NFL 2023 calendar year is set to begin at 4 p.m. ET on March 15 when contracts running through 2022 will officially run out, making those players free agents. Prior to the beginning of free agency, teams will have a chance to designate one franchise or transition tag player, starting on Feb. 21 at 4 p.m. ET and ending on March 7. Beginning March 13 through March 15 teams will be allowed a legal negotiation with players who are set to become unrestricted free agents.
In addition to NFL free agency, the new year also marks the beginning of all trades being made official by the league office. April 21 marks the deadline to sign restricted free agents to offer sheets while April 26 marks the deadline for teams to match restricted free agent offers sheets. 722 players are slated to become free agents in 2023.
More on restricted, exclusive rights free agents
Players with only three years of accredited NFL experience become restricted free agents. Their original team will have the option to apply first-round, second-round, original-round, and right-of-fight-of-first-refusal tenders on players at escalating price tags. The higher the round, the more expensive the tender amount; however, if a separate team does offer a contract and the original team does not match that round pick will be conveyed from the new team to the original team. Right of first refusal only gives a team the option to match or not. If they don’t match, they get nothing in return. An original-round tender would send a draft pick from whatever round the player was drafted back to the original team if they chose not to match. The original team will have five days to match once a player signs an offer sheet from a new team.