The Jets will officially cut Trumaine Johnson when the league year opens this afternoon, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets. This has been a long expected move as the Jets look to move on from an absolute disaster of a free agent signing. 
Since-fired GM Mike Maccagnan signed Johnson to a five-year, $72.5MM in 2018 after striking out on quarterback Kirk Cousins and other top targets. What seemed like an over-pay at the time went in a much worse direction than anyone could have anticipated. Injuries hampered Johnson and Jets officials were sometimes left with the impression that his effort was lacking.
The move will not free up lots of cap room for Gang Green – they’ll be saddled with $12MM in dead money versus just $3MM in cap savings. The silver lining, however, is that the Jets can spread his $12MM dead money cap hit by marking him as a post-June 1 release.
The Jets tried to scare up interest in Johnson before the trade deadline last year, but there were no takers. Predictably, there was no market for Johnson in March.
Between the Jets and the Rams, Johnson has earned $70M as an NFL pro.
Wow dude some players don’t even earn that in a career. His career might be done.
If they designate him post June 1, does that mean he can’t sign elsewhere until then?
I think he could agree in principle somewhere else but it wouldn’t officially take effect until after then.
Imagine taking $12 Million dollars and flushing that down the pipe…..in real life, playing for performance that he will give to his new team…don’t know how these guys retain their jobs when they make these types of decisions and the player fails….in real life, you’d lose your job for a lot less than this.
Hey, it’s the Jets…they will soon have another overpriced underachiever to take his place.