Dropped by his longtime company final week, New York Jets holdout move rusher Haason Reddick has employed Drew Rosenhaus and Ryan Matha as his new brokers.
Rosenhaus, who already has talked with the Jets, advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter that he expressed hope that the dispute might be resolved quickly.
“We sit up for working with the Jets to get this resolved as quickly as attainable,” Rosenhaus advised Schefter. “Haason want to be a New York Jet for years to come back, and our purpose is to make that occur.”
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Rosenhaus mentioned he is planning to attend Monday evening’s sport in opposition to the Buffalo Payments, the place he presumably will meet with Jets officers.
Reddick, 30, acquired in a March 29 commerce with the Philadelphia Eagles, is the NFL’s final remaining holdout. The saga took an odd flip final week when CAA dropped him as a consumer. CAA and the Jets have been conducting talks towards a renegotiated contract, however Reddick apparently refused to budge from his want to get a long-term extension.
This has been probably the most weird holdouts in current NFL historical past. Simply final week, Jets proprietor Woody Johnson issued a public plea to Reddick, telling reporters, “Haason, get in your automobile, drive down I-95 and are available to the New York Jets. We will meet you and provide you with an escort proper within the constructing and you’ll match proper in and you are going to adore it right here, and you are going to really feel welcome and you are going to accomplish nice issues with us.”
Reddick, who lives in Camden, New Jersey, about 90 minutes from the Jets’ coaching facility, has skipped all staff occasions because the commerce, forfeiting about $4.7 million in sport checks and accruing one other $5 million in NFL-mandated fines.
The Jets acquired him with one yr, $14.25 million in nonguaranteed base pay remaining on his contract. Reddick, who has 50.5 sacks over the earlier 4 seasons, demanded a long-term deal commensurate with the highest move rushers. The Eagles determined to commerce him as a substitute of paying him.
The Jets supplied an extension on the time of the commerce, but it surely was rapidly rejected. At that time, Reddick agreed to play underneath his current contract, in keeping with the staff. Reddick evidently felt he was promised a long-term extension, so he did not report back to any offseason occasions or coaching camp.
After dropping move rusher Bryce Huff to the Eagles in free company, the Jets traded for Reddick, sending a conditional 2026 third-round choose to the Eagles. If Reddick would not report by Week 13, he will not get credit score for the season and his contract will toll, which means the Jets would retain his rights for 2025 as a substitute of him changing into a free agent.
