The Jets continue to wait on Haason Reddick, but no signs this holdout will end soon are present. Reddick’s grudge against his new team persists, even as his fines have surpassed $5MM.
Although Robert Saleh has said he has not spoken to Reddick since training camp began, SNY’s Connor Hughes does confirm the edge rusher’s agent remains in talks with GM Joe Douglas. Seemingly representing progress, Hughes does well to ensure that is not the case by confirming both sides are still entrenched in their summer stances on this matter. A weekend report indeed indicated Reddick is “willing to die on this sword.”, and Hughes reported late last month some believe the former Cardinals, Panthers and Eagles starter is geared up to skip the season.
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Not wanting to negotiate an extension for a player who has not reported, the Jets were also not believed to be overly interested in paying Reddick due to his age (30 this month). Contract sweeteners emerged as a potential solution in this messy situation, but Reddick is believed to essentially view the Jets as having reneged on their word by refusing to revisit extension talks after a low-ball offer emerged before the trade was finalized. Hence, the standoff.
Teams around the league are obviously monitoring this situation, and ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler adds some view a trade as the escape route the Jets will eventually take. When Reddick requested a trade during the preseason, the Jets shot down the notion they would comply. While some anonymous execs may predict this will be how the saga ends in New York, the Jets would take a loss here due to being unlikely to recoup whey they gave up — a 2026 conditional third-rounder — in the March deal with the Eagles.
A team interested in trading for Reddick would almost definitely need to have a deal ready. Holdouts preceding trades have produced delayed resolutions, as the cases of Trent Williams and Duane Brown remind. Washington traded Williams to San Francisco in 2020, after he sat out the 2019 season, and the decorated tackle played out his existing contract before cashing in as a 2021 free agent. Brown held out in 2017, and the Texans traded him to the Seahawks. The tackle did not sign a Seattle extension until the 2018 offseason.
This type of conclusion may work for Matt Judon and the Falcons, but Reddick appears intent on cashing in. He has yet to earn a top-market edge rusher salary, having seen the Panthers provide a prove-it deal in 2021 — after the Cardinals used him as an off-ball linebacker for multiple seasons — and the Eagles hand over a three-year, $45MM pact.
Reddick remains attached to that pact. The former first-rounder will be unlikely to fetch true top-market money due to age and perhaps this holdout, but with 51.5 sacks since 2020 (the fourth-most this decade), he would remain a coveted commodity in a second 2024 trade.
Residing on the Jets’ reserve/did not report list, Reddick has seen his 2024 salary ($14.25MM) become nonguaranteed due to not being on an active roster when vested veterans’ salaries locked in last weekend. Reddick will lose $791K for each game missed, but The Athletic’s Zack Rosenblatt notes the Jets will not gain cap space for Reddick missed games. They are also missing out on quality production, but with Reddick not practicing with the team, it is debatable how well he would fare if immediately inserted into Saleh’s system.
Reddick is a fool. He’s going to cost himself more in fines than any increase in his salary in a new deal.
The Jets also traded for him knowing full well that he wasn’t going to play without a new contract, so not a great move by them either.
It says everything the Eagles signed Jets defensive end Huff and were more than happy to then trade them Reddick. If the Jets were smart they would’ve extended Huff.
Now if they extend Huff for what he got which extension are you not doing next year Gardner Wilson Johnson or Hall because all 4 are eligible and i think Hall was 2nd rounder so they dont have the extra year like they do with Gardner Johnson and Wilson along with getting 2 o tackles.
Reddick was supposed to be a one and done merc. Give him more in incentives or whatever this season and let him get his big contract next season. They were hoping johnson or mcdonald would replace huff / reddick production next season at much lower prices.
@css Doesn’t matter…Reddick was/is under contract for 1 more season, and THAT’S what the Jets traded for. It’s HIS fault that he hasn’t stepped on a field yet, not theirs. They can still trade this malcontent to a bonafide playoff contender (which the Jets aren’t) next month before the deadline. Then both parties can wash their hands of this failed affair!
Reddick will most likely report by Week 9 because he doesn’t want his contract to toll until next year.
Doesn’t seem like this is guy is very smart. He’s already given up a third of salary this year in fines. Seems the Jets aren’t gonna budge. And I don’t blame them. Why should they renegotiate with a guy who hasn’t shown up. Just seems silly
Yeah that is a great idea. Alienate the guy you traded for and promised to extend in the national spotlight so other potential FAs and teams can see.
Jets are the Jets, they lose. People claiming that players should honor their contracts are fools who dont understand NFL player contracts.
Its funny how reg people side with owners, who are billionaires and dont care about the fans at all, and not the players, the workers, who are the guys who actually win the games.
Reddick should hold out, he has all the leverage. Jets lose, the gm and coach are fired. I wonder if $5 million more a year is worth your GM job?
You don’t actually believe he holds all the leverage, do you? He’s already cost himself over $5 million and that number will keep going up. Plus, if he doesn’t report at all then he’s back in the same boat for next season. It’s not about siding with the owners here. Reddick is making a foolish stand and the Jets request, that he just show up to work, is not unreasonable at all. You think the GM is getting fired because he gave up a mid-round pick? Lol
I agree with everything except the billionaires comment. There is a salary cap. One player getting a bad deal isn’t just lost money for a billionaire, it’s lost space for another player. There’s more reasons to criticize a player than just “siding with a billionaire”-that’s much too simplistic an analysis.
In this case, I believe that New York should just extend Reddick. They have one, perhaps two years to compete with this roster, and there are still a few holes. They’re not going to find an edge rusher of Reddick’s caliber, or even starting caliber, at this point in the season. It’s not a huge risk to gamble on two years of a productive player. Yes, Reddick is hurting himself by holding out, but the Jets are hurting themselves as well by not extending him.
“siding with a billionaire”-that’s much too simplistic an analysis.
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That seems to always be the response when fans don’t want to think thru the l/t implications. Bad contracts are bad contracts, in every sport, no matter how rich the owner is.
Disagree
The juice isn’t worth the squeeze with this guy.
He is a distraction to the Jets and they should just trade him and get what you can for him and move on. Let him become someone else’s problem because he’s not the missing piece for the Jets to try to make the playoffs.
The jets are a joke. Distraction from Losing. Playoffs??? Please.
Sounds easy enough but nobody else will take him on right now in a trade. That same rationale is why Philly dumped him on the Jets, but nobody will be foolish to give anything for him right now.
A couple friends who root for other teams watched the Jets opener with me and were asking me what was going to happen with the Reddick situation, and I told them their guess was as good as mine. Reddick is hemorrhaging money and the Jets are lacking pass rushing juice off the edge. Lose-lose scenario and I have zero idea what’s going to happen.
It’s one game and SF has a solid OL. NYJ lacked the crispness SF has. Chalk it up to first game with AR vs a team that’s been a machine for years. But to allow the SF RB so many yards wasn’t good. You gotta stop the run in the NFL.
Oh, I’m not panicking about the Jets being 0-1 after facing one of the best teams in football and the hardest game on their whole schedule. But even if they had won I would think the Jets need their best edge rusher. After losing Huff and Franklin-Myers, they need the heat up front.
Jets play AFC South and NFC West this term. Not an easy team in those 2 divisions.
Rodgers is a old man and looking it. The jets are hype . A 12 loss team. Playoffs??? Laughing in my corn flakes.
They didn’t even lose 12 games with Zach Wilson.
I know a dittohead when I see one.
BTW, Tua suffered another concussion vs. Buffalo and this latest head injury may end his career.
Oooooooof come see me seasons end.
I’m sure you won’t remember every troll comment you made months ago, but yeah, I’ll confidently bet under 12 on Jets losses.
Troll because I disagree with the great ooooof.
Troll because all you’re doing is trolling. You wanted to be noticed. Here you go.
By oooof ? Hardly.
If you think the jets ol is going to improve or Rodgers will gain mobility, you are sadly mistaken. Salah is a brutally bad head coach and I could list a dozen more reasons why the jets will be locked in at 12 .
OK. If the Jets lose 12 or more games, I’ll say you were right. Seems like a poor bet on your part, but you’re not betting anything anyway.
Sixers aren’t coming to jersey jr. Tua should have retired two years ago.
Dumb Sportsball Fans inject NBA talk into an NFL discussion. Intelligent people do not.
I hit a nerve
The Jets are a complete mess from ownership on down. They allow Aaron to act as their GM, signing anyone he demands. I bet he has similar power over the first three rounds as well. Then this mess. What a clusterf**k of an organization.
So says someone that looks the other way at the New York Giants and thinks the Carolina Panthers are a model NFL club.
When have I ever said Carolina and the Giants were well-run teams? The funny thing about fans of losing franchises is how badly they fight for them; why? Browns, Jags, Jets, Cards, etc., are always the same pathic teams. Yet their fan bases stay loyal, throw gobs of money at them, and then complain about player contracts. It’s absurd.
So says another dittohead that’s easily brainwashed by the National Sports Media.
Last term Cleveland not only made the playoffs, it had the Coach of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year. Jacksonville was win-and-in for the AFC South going into Week 18. Jets may have only gone 7-10 but they did end the career of Bill Belichick.
Again, you need to learn basic facts. Jets’ fans like yourself are just mad Bill dumped you as their HC on a napkin! Then went on to own your soul for 20 years.
From Google: Belichick is 38-11 against the Jets while HC of the NEP and 39-12 overall. You haven’t even made the postseason from Google in 13 years! But make sure to keep rooting for that failed franchise.
Now get your popcorn ready for another sub .500 year.
Seems the dittohead is upchuck. Get a new line. The jets are are a joke of a organization my friend. Trade for a guy who tells you I won’t show up. Pathetic.
Earth to arty: Belichick is a loser without Brady and a cheater who may not get into Canton.
As well, the teacher must be talking about the blue team that shares MetLife Stadium.
Exactly. No Brady, no great coaching career for Belichick.
And what do you hang your franchise hat on; ineptitude, failure, losing, etc? Bill quit the Jets’ job on a napkin! That’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever heard.
In fact, when ESPN did the 30 for 30 on the Two Bill’s, both Parcells and Belichick refused to go the Jets locker room. That’s how insignificant your team is now. Now, go lose week 2. Losing is the only accomplishment the Jets have ever done.
That doesn’t mean he isn’t right about the Jets being a joke of an organization.
I would not make a very good GM. Because I would stop negotiating with this fool and refuse to trade him. You can come in and play under your contract or don’t play. No play? Your contract rolls over into next year. No free agency for you! I would not allow myself or my team to be extorted.
You act as if they didn’t trade for him which caused this mess in the first place. You can act like you’d be the tough negotiator and all that, but when you cause the mess to begin with you get zero credit for that.
I’m not talking about the Jets. I’m talking about what I would do right now. But then I wouldn’t have traded for this guy to begin with.
It doesn’t matter that he didn’t want to be traded to the Jets. He’s a player under contract to play. He should play. He’d be a free agent at the end of the season, and could sign with anyone willing to pay him what he wants.
You are correct, you would make a nauseous gm.
at least this will give them someone to blame for another lost season
If this team goes 0-2, Reddick will come out like a genius … pay em’ or trade em’ …
Reddick wasn’t going to make any difference against a much better team in San Fran.
A trade built around Reddick and Davante maybe??????
Nice enough fit, but the contract issue would need to be resolved, and probably favorably for the Raiders. His $25M ask looks too pricey.
Don’t be surprised if this summer’s multiple contract re-negotiation situations lead to some new bargaining agreement changes by the owners. At the very least it appears that the players have so much money that yesteryear’s $50K a day fines will have to be massively increased – and players “holding-in” instead of “holding-out” will need to be forbidden.
Problem with trade is finding a team willing to pay this guy $25mill yr he’s asking for
Let him sit and lose money.