JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Receiver Jakobi Meyers and the Jacksonville Jaguars agreed to terms on a three-year, $60 million contract extension Thursday that includes $40 million guaranteed, a person familiar with negotiations told The Associated Press.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither side disclosed financial details.
The Jaguars (10-4) traded two 2026 draft picks — fourth- and sixth-rounders — to Las Vegas to acquire Meyers at the trade deadline in early November. The 29-year-old Meyers has 27 catches for 355 yards and three touchdowns in six games with Jacksonville, becoming Trevor Lawrence's most dependable receiver.
“I feel like it just elevates everybody else’s game around you and around him,” Jaguars running back Travis Etienne said of Meyers earlier this week. “I feel like he made us all so much better. I feel like he’s always making plays. He’s always catching the ball, locking it up. He’s always doing the right thing. He’s always in the right place at the right time.
“That forces guys to be better, you know? He’s kind of setting the standard. He came and set the standard, and I feel like it raises everybody else’s level of play. Just very grateful he’s on my team.”
Meyers was scheduled to become a free agent after this season.
Jacksonville made the trade in part because a season-ending injury to two-way rookie Travis Hunter but also because starters Brian Thomas Jr. and Dyami Brown were struggling with dropped passes.
General manager James Gladstone said at the time that Meyers' ability to catch the ball was his superpower. Meyers has one drop this season and has never had more than two in any season during his seven-year NFL career.
Meyers has been a huge addition for Lawrence and the offense. The Jaguars are 5-1 and averaging 31.8 points — nearly 10 more a game — since acquiring Meyers.
Meyers has 453 catches for 5,299 yards and 23 touchdowns in his career, which began in 2019 as an undrafted rookie free agent with New England. He caught 235 passes for 2,758 yards and eight touchdowns in four years with the Patriots before signing a three-year, $33 million contract with the Raiders in 2023.
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Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jakobi Meyers (3) celebrates a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jakobi Meyers (3) makes a catch over Indianapolis Colts safety Nick Cross (20) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, part of the back-and-forth diplomacy as the Trump administration pushes for a potential deal.
Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Miami on Saturday, according to an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to preview a meeting that hasn't yet been publicly announced.
The official said Witkoff and Kushner will sit down with Dmitriev, after meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Berlin earlier this week, in which they discussed U.S. security guarantees for Kyiv, territorial concessions and other aspects of the American-authored plan aimed at ending the war.
Asked about the meeting in Miami, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that Moscow was preparing for contacts with the U.S. to learn about the results of the meetings in Berlin, but he didn't give further details.
Trump has unleashed an extensive diplomatic push to end nearly four years of fighting following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24, 2022, but Washington’s efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that Moscow would seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin’s demands in peace talks.
Putin wants all the areas in four key regions captured by his forces, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which was illegally annexed in 2014, to be recognized as Russian territory. He also has demanded that Ukraine withdraw from some areas in eastern Ukraine that Moscow’s forces haven't captured yet, which Ukraine has rejected.
The Kremlin also insists that Ukraine abandon its bid to join NATO and warns that Moscow won’t accept the deployment of any troops from NATO members and will view them as a “legitimate target.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asked Thursday about his comments last week that were interpreted as him renouncing Ukraine’s NATO bid, and if he was willing to change Ukraine's constitution to remove the reference to joining NATO, said he saw no reason to do that.
“My words cannot be interpreted in any other way,” Zelenskyy said. “Our position remains unchanged.” While the United States doesn't see Ukraine in NATO “for now,” he said. “Politicians change.”
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian officials were expected to hold negotiations in the U.S. on Friday or Saturday.
“We have progress in our dialogue with the American side regarding some of our points, they also speak with Russian side,” Zelenskyy said during a visit to Brussels where EU leaders were set to decide whether to use tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to underwrite a loan to meet Ukraine’s military and financial needs over the next two years.
“We are in the war and United States are decision-makers, who can really stop Putin and I count on this," Zelenskyy said. “I really count on pressure from United States. Putin does not want to stop this war, but he can if United States will pressure more.”
As European allies gathered for the high-stakes summit, Russia and Ukraine exchanged more aerial attacks.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 82 drones of various types at Ukraine overnight, 63 of which were intercepted or jammed.
In Cherkasy, Russian drones that targeted critical infrastructure wounded six people and left parts of the city without electricity, regional administration head Ihor Taburets said. Russian drones also wounded four people in Kryvyi Rih and seven near Odesa, according to local officials.
In Russia's Rostov region, three people were killed by Ukrainian drones overnight, including two crew members of a cargo ship that was hit in Rostov-on-Don and a man who died in Bataysk. At least 10 others were wounded, according to local officials.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted 47 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a media conference during the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
FILE - U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, right, Russian presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, left, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, second right, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, arrive for meetings in Moscow, on Dec. 2, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
