Jets Resign 9 To Futures Contracts

[Jetsrule128]

NT Deon Simon LB Deion Barnes TE Wes Saxton OL Jarvis Harrison CB Kevin Short FB/LB Julian Howsare LB Julian Stanford TE Brandon Bostick WR Joe Anderson



OL Lawrence Okoye the only practice squad member not to resign

 

[TebowCan'tThrow]

Hopefully Harrison and Simon will be ready to play next year and can step in.

 

[HYATT™]

Can't wait to see Saxton get his groove on.
HYATT™ has high hopes for that kid.

Which is more than HYATT™ can say about ANOTHER rookie - HYATT™
Waddup wid dat anyway?
Suddenly I got reborn as a virgin or summin?

 

[ucrenegade]

what exactly is a futures contract are they off limits to other teams if they say they are signing in the future with the jets?

 

[LGM]

what exactly is a futures contract are they off limits to other teams if they say they are signing in the future with the jets?

I believe it means they are part of the 2016 offseason 80 or whatever man roster and not free agents or grabbable, even by the retard in Buffalo

Could be wrong though

 

[Golden Rott]

what exactly is a futures contract are they off limits to other teams if they say they are signing in the future with the jets?

As I understand futures contracts - they do prevent other teams from signing any of these guys. Maybe someone who knows more can explain in better detail, but I always thought its just a way to lock up the guys from your practice squad who were free to sign with other teams active rosters during the season. They are not on active rosters, without signing the futures contract -- they could be signed by other teams.

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

CB Kevin Short

This is an under the radar name to remember.

Couple of weeks ago Kacy Rodgers was asked specifically if anyone on the PS has impressed him, and he specifically cited Kevin Short as a guy who is making a ton of plays in practice and has really opened some eyes. Short had a weird journey to the NFL, rife with detours and ineligibility, but he was a blue-chip recruit out of H.S. and he has terrific measurables (6' 2"/200).

 

[HYATT™]

Players signed between now and then are signed to these 'reserve/futures' deals because they are being signed for a season that has not officially begun.
Only players who were not on any NFL team's active roster when the previous season ended are eligible for these types of contracts.

The skinny on Futures Contracts:
It's the same as a regular active-roster contract, with the regular rules for minimum veteran salaries, cap charges, signing bonuses, etc. The only difference is that it doesn't take effect until the start of the next League Year (this year, that's March 15 at 4 p.m.).

Teams can sign players to futures contracts as soon as the previous regular season is over, but the contract won't count against the salary cap or 53-man limit.
Instead, it'll count against the salary cap and 90-man camp limit of the following season.

In the meantime, the player goes on the reserve/futures list and can't be signed by any other team.

Who's Eligible for a Futures Contract?

Any player who wasn't on an active roster at the end of the outgoing regular season.
So, if a player was an unrestricted free agent or on any team's practice squad, after Week 17, they can be signed to a futures contract.

Here's the rub of the futures contract: For the most part, they're used on players who weren't quite good enough to justify an active roster spot this season but who teams think just might be worth an active roster spot next season.
In many cases, this means teams locking up players currently on their own practice squad or another team's.

Andrew Brandt explains that this is a great way of locking up talented young guys on the cusp of breaking out.
When he was vice president of the Green Bay Packers, he signed defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins, now of the New York Giants, to a futures deal.

Since practice-squad players can be poached by any team willing to sign them to an active contract, a futures deal ensures they'll be in the fold once OTAs and training camp roll around—peace of mind for front offices that would rather be concentrating on keeping its top talent and wooing key veterans at the start of free agency, not scrapping over players who may not make the team.

There's no limit to how many futures contracts a team can sign, as long as it will be under the 90-man roster cap at the beginning of the league year.

Technically, an unrestricted free agent like Terrell Owens would be eligible for a futures contract, but he'd be unlikely to agree to one.

Why? Well...

What are Futures Contracts Worth?

Typically, futures contracts are minimum-salary deals with little or no signing bonus. Most players signed to futures contracts will be fighting for a spot in camp; teams aren't going to invest much into players who may well be cut the following autumn.

Just as with any other free agent, teams can sign futures contracts above the veteran minimum—but rarely (if ever) do.

In 2011, the NFL Players Association filed a collusion suit against the NFL, alleging that teams were colluding to keep salaries down.
One of their key pieces of evidence, Sports Illustrated's Michael McCann wrote, was a quote from Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis.
Lewis and the Bengals lost a practice-squad receiver, Dezmon Briscoe, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the Bucs offered him not a spot on the active roster, but a raise.

Paying Briscoe, now an active player on Washington's roster, $310,000 (instead of the prevailing $88,400 practice-squad salary) upset Lewis' apple cart.

"When you overpay a guy on the practice squad, you create a problem in the system for teams," Lewis said. "That's not the great precedent for teams to set as we try to keep the NFL doing the things we're trying to do as a league. It's still a league of 32 teams and things are put together a certain way."

That's all but admitting collusion—but due to the players agreeing to settle all past issues as part of the latest collective bargaining agreement, a federal judge denied the NFLPA's claim.

Going forward, it's worth wondering if NFL teams will ever start trying to outbid each other on futures contracts or if an exceptionally talented player finds himself unattached at the end of the season for some reason.