Before the Jets look outside (the team is estimated to have about $50 million in salary-cap flexibility), there is the matter of evaluating the value of the team's own 19 players with either expiring or voiding contracts.
The guy who has garnered a lion's share of the attention is WR/KR Braxton Berrios, 26, who had a breakout 2021 season, including four TDs in his final three games.
"Obviously, we love Braxton," head coach Robert Saleh said. "I've always sat up here and said it's our job as a coaching staff to make [general manager] Joe Douglas' job as hard as possible with regards to re-signing people."
Beyond Berrios, Douglas, Saleh and their staffs have decisions to make on a handful of veteran players, a list that includes DT Folorunso Fatukasi, S Marcus Maye, S Lamarcus Joyner, WR Jamison Crowder, and offensive linemen Morgan Moses and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. Maye, the longest-tenured player for the Green & White, played last season on the franchise tag and is coming off an Achilles tendon injury.
"Any decision that we make, in regards to Marcus or any other player on expiring contracts, the decisions are going to be made in the best interest of the team now and moving forward," Douglas said.
Another group includes K Eddy Piñeiro, WR Keelan Cole, RB Tevin Coleman, TE Tyler Kroft, C Dan Feeney and DL Nathan Shepherd.
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The guy who has garnered a lion's share of the attention is WR/KR Braxton Berrios, 26, who had a breakout 2021 season, including four TDs in his final three games.
"Obviously, we love Braxton," head coach Robert Saleh said. "I've always sat up here and said it's our job as a coaching staff to make [general manager] Joe Douglas' job as hard as possible with regards to re-signing people."
Beyond Berrios, Douglas, Saleh and their staffs have decisions to make on a handful of veteran players, a list that includes DT Folorunso Fatukasi, S Marcus Maye, S Lamarcus Joyner, WR Jamison Crowder, and offensive linemen Morgan Moses and Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. Maye, the longest-tenured player for the Green & White, played last season on the franchise tag and is coming off an Achilles tendon injury.
"Any decision that we make, in regards to Marcus or any other player on expiring contracts, the decisions are going to be made in the best interest of the team now and moving forward," Douglas said.
Another group includes K Eddy Piñeiro, WR Keelan Cole, RB Tevin Coleman, TE Tyler Kroft, C Dan Feeney and DL Nathan Shepherd.
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