The New York Jets are clearly going all-in for 2024. That will come at a huge potential cost, potentially making 2025 a dead year.<\/p>\n
The Jets have made four key acquisitions in the last three seasons: Aaron Rodgers, Javon Kinlaw, Tyron Smith, and now Haason Reddick<\/a>. Those moves could be the difference in winning a Super Bowl. However, winning that Super Bowl may make 2025 and 2026 rebuild years. Also, 2025 might be a dead year, especially in terms of regression in their win-loss record.<\/p>\n Let’s dive in, first with understanding how incentives work in the NFL. For cap purposes, there are two types of incentives. Whether or not incentives hit the cap is based on the previous season. Likely to be earned incentives are ones that were achieved the previous season. Those hit the cap the year of the incentive. If they go unearned, they are credited back the following season. Not likely to be earned incentives are ones not achieved in the previous season. If those do get earned, they hit the cap the following season<\/p>\n What is the cost of going all-in\u00a0and<\/strong><\/em> winning the Super Bowl for the Jets? Let’s look.<\/p>\n Kinlaw signed a 1 year, $7.25 million contract with the Jets. The signing bonus is $5.5 million. The base salary for 2024 is $1.41 million, and the per-game roster bonus is $340,000. It also has four void years to spread out the $5.5 million. The prorated signing bonus only counts $1.1 million this year.<\/p>\n If Kinlaw were to sign elsewhere in 2025, his void years would accelerate into 2025. That would be a cost of $4.4 million in cap space next season.<\/p>\n According to Jason Fitzgerald, it is likely the Eagles will restructure his contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n My assumption is they will redo the deal and bring his salary down to the minimum and add 4 void years. So probably will wind up being around $4M<\/p>\n — Jason_OTC (@Jason_OTC) March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nJavon Kinlaw<\/h2>\n
Haason Reddick<\/h2>\n
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