With no end in sight to Haason Reddick’s disastrous holdout situation with the New York Jets, the expectation now among NFL executives is that the Jets will need to cut their losses and attempt to flip Reddick via trade.
The Philadelphia Eagles traded Reddick to the Jets in April amid contract discussions, getting a conditional 2026 third-round draft pick in return. In need of pass rush help himself, could general manager Howie Roseman call the Jets back for a reunion in the 215?
Joe Giglio, the midday radio host on Philadelphia Sports Talk WIP-FM, recently proposed that very scenario:
Howie Roseman should call Joe Douglas back, offer him a late round pick, say I'll take him back off of your hands, bring Reddick back here, give him some money and put him on the field. This is the most obvious fix I have ever seen.
The Jets’ handling of this situation has been laughable from the start. Reddick was never going to play the 2024 season on a lame-duck contract with no remaining guarantees. That was the case at the beginning of the offseason, before the Eagles traded him. The Jets apparently felt a contract extension was not part of the deal. Reddick hasn’t practiced or been with the team since. He requested a trade, which the Jets quickly denied with this statement by GM Joe Douglas.
The whole situation has become an extremely expensive mess, for both sides. Given the contract standoff, with Reddick about to turn 30 this month, there’s no way the Jets are recouping the draft compensation they sent to Philly should they flip him to another team.
Roseman knows Reddick and has negotiated a contract with his representation before. Reddick got $30 million in guarantees from the Eagles in the three-year, $45 million deal he signed in March of 2022. Could the Eagles GM fleece the Jets by bringing Reddick back for a Day 3 pick, and then at least rework the veteran’s contract for 2024 with some additional cash and guarantees to help get him to 2025 free agency?
Per Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic, Reddick wants an AAV of $25 million, which would rank him alongside Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns. If Roseman and the Eagles were comfortable with that salary range for Reddick, the Jets trade wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
In what’s been a sticky situation from the start, Giglio’s simple solution might be the scenario that makes the most sense.
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