Jets Send ‘Clear’ Message to Haason Reddick About a Potential Trade

Getty Former Philadelphia Eagles pass rusher Haason Reddick reacting in the middle of an NFL game.

The New York Jets and Haason Reddick are involved in a very public contract dispute.

However, that doesn’t mean that their relationship with each other will end anytime soon. Connor Hughes of SNY revealed on social media that, “The Jets are not willing to trade or release Reddick if this persists. They’ve made that clear to him.”

Gang Green acquired Reddick this offseason in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Jets landed Reddick in exchange for a conditional 2026 third-round draft choice. If Reddick appears in at least 67.5% of the snaps and registers a double-digit sack campaign it will become a second-rounder.

Reddick is in the last year of the $45 million contract he originally inked with the Eagles back in 2022. He is scheduled to make $14.25 million for the 2024 campaign.

This Reddick-Jets Situation Could Drag on for a Bit

Reddick didn’t report to Jets training camp with the rest of his teammates on Tuesday, July 23. For each day that he misses, Reddick will be fined a non-waivable $50,000.

Here’s the gist, Reddick wants a contract that properly represents who he is as a dominant pass rusher in the NFL. New York isn’t willing to go to those lengths contractually speaking.

The big sticking point in these discussions is that they are currently nonexistent. Jets reporter Nick Faria of Athlon Sports and the Pro Football Network told me on Wednesday, July 24 on “Boy Green Daily” that the Jets won’t be talking with Reddick until he shows up.

New York doesn’t want to negotiate with a player that isn’t here at camp. Reddick isn’t at camp because he is holding out for more money.

Faria described it to me as a “game of chicken” and we’ll see who blinks first.

Jets Are Open to Giving Reddick a Monster Deal

“The Jets were open to a contract extension making Reddick one of the league’s highest-paid edge rushers (he wants a deal between $25 million and $28 million annually), but there was an understanding between the Jets and Reddick that in order to receive that, Reddick needed to show up and perform on the field (regular season games),” Connor Hughes of SNY said. “The Jets were not willing to rip up Reddick’s current deal until that point. They were, however, willing to do an extension in-season, similar to when they rewarded defensive end John Franklin-Myers in October of 2021.”

In the JFM example that Hughes provided, the Jets played the first four games of that 2021 season. New York liked what they saw and what Franklin-Myers proved which resulted in a massive $55 million extension mid-season.

The Jets are open to doing something similar with Reddick. Hughes said New York offered Reddick a “raise” before the trade but he declined.

It was more than the $14.5 million he is owed, but it didn’t quite reach the level that Reddick was hoping for in the $25 million to $28 million.

The most likely compromise is something in the middle. Gang Green can guarantee a portion of his salary and include a variety of incentives. Those could be both performance-related and even team success related (making the playoffs, winning playoff games, etc).