The Haason Reddick situation remains a front-burner Jets issue, as the offseason trade acquisition was a no-show to start training camp. While the Jets are open to adjusting Reddick’s deal via sweeteners, they are not believed to prefer a long-term extension before the accomplished edge rusher plays a down this season.
Though, the Jets are now believed to have offered some type of extension months ago. Receiving permission to speak with Reddick’s camp prior to the trade, the Jets made an offer Reddick declined, SNY’s Connor Hughes reports. While the proposal provided Reddick a raise from the $14.25MM salary he is due this year, the former first-round pick’s asking price is currently out of the Jets’ range.
Reddick is seeking a deal in $25-$28MM-per-year territory, Hughes adds. This would place Reddick in the top six among edge rusher AAVs, a sector his sack production would support. The Jets had expected the eighth-year vet to report for their offseason program and training camp. After incurring just more than $100K in fines for skipping minicamp, Reddick has continued to stay away from his new team. This has created an impasse, as the New York Post’s Brian Costello indicates the Jets are not interested in negotiating with Reddick until he reports.
The Jets traded a conditional 2026 third-round pick for Reddick in late March, and while the team has a regular role planned for him (as opposed to the situational role Bryce Huff held), GM Joe Douglas has been hesitant to authorize an extension. Reddick’s age (30 in September) has come up as one of the reasons the team is holding off here, but sending a Day 2 pick for a player — conditional or not — and then seeing that player hold out obviously presents a bad look.
As the Jets are eyeing short-term solutions with Reddick, Costello adds the former Cardinals, Panthers and Eagles edge is more focused on a long-term play. Reddick outplayed his three-year, $45MM deal in Philly, leading the 2022 NFC champions’ charge at the 1984 Bears’ long-running sack record. The Eagles fell just short of that mark but still produced a staggering 70 sacks. Reddick’s 50.5 sacks during the 2020s rank fourth in the NFL, yet his contract has fallen to 19th among edge rushers. Huff secured better terms than Reddick’s this offseason, inking a three-year, $51.1MM Eagles deal. The Jets’ reluctance to pay Huff has certainly affected their developing Reddick situation.
The team is not opposed to doing a deal in-season, per Hughes, and ESPN.com’s Rich Cimini indicates an extension coming to pass later in the season is still in play. The team wants to gauge the fit first. The Jets extended John Franklin-Myers in September 2021, though Reddick is a much higher-profile player compared to the former waiver claim. Due to Reddick coming aboard, the Jets traded Franklin-Myers to the Broncos in what amounted to a salary dump.
Reddick is also running short on time to cash in, as less productive (but younger) edge rushers Brian Burns and Josh Allen nearly doubled his AAV on extensions this offseason. Finally, Hughes notes the Jets have informed Reddick they have no plans to trade or release him. As such, this drama persists. The team must fine Reddick approximately $50K per day for his absences, as he is attached to a veteran contract.
Post-Franklin-Myers, the Jets have recent first-rounders Jermaine Johnson and Will McDonald in the fold. Reddick’s holdout opens the door for McDonald, but the team obviously wants the veteran to anchor its defensive end contingent. For now, the sides are not in alignment on how to make that happen.
The only time the Jets will ever win is when a person fires up franchise mode on Madden and selects them. What an inept franchise.
Just a bad trade for the jets…he either plays this year or he doesn’t…he isn’t worth the headache
Ok so you offer him an extension prior to trading for him and he declines and you still trade for him? You know what he is asking for and it’s way more than you want to pay. You might as well look under the couch cushions or mattress and put a deal together he likes or trade him and get your draft pick back from someone else.. Jets fans man all they want is to finally be good again and nobody with the Jets organization knows what they’re doing.
It’s like buying flowers for the girl who just turned you down for the prom (but costs significantly more)…
I know that he’s very good, and I generally approve of some (but certainly not all) of Douglas’ moves, but why would you trade for a player who does not want your extension offer?
At least part of the answer is that a third round pick two years in the future was such a low price.
I get it, it’s still hard to contemplate. I’m certain that they thought that they could persuade Reddick otherwise, but if the player rejects your offer, you trade for him anyway, and then try to offer him even less than what he wants (in the form of an incentivized one year deal in lieu if his preferred extension), you can’t exactly say that you didn’t know that he wouldn’t take it.
Have some testicular fortitude and wait Reddick out. After awhile he’ll take whatever sweeteners you offer on the current expiring deal just to offset the fines that are piling up.
Reddick isn’t worth 25 to 28 million. He’s out of his mind if he is truly asking for that. He hurts himself more than he hurts the Jets by doing this.