Jets owner Woody Johnson said Monday that the Jets will hang onto Zach Wilson if they are unable to trade him this offseason.
Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University. You can follow him via Twitter @RichCimini., team officials said Monday, but the long-anticipated breakup took an interesting twist when owner Woody Johnson introduced another potential outcome.
Johnson, who last month criticized Wilson's 2023 performance, walked back those comments, perhaps in a Hail Mary attempt to stimulate interest in the former first-round pick. He called Wilson"a valuable asset.
Wilson, with one year remaining on his rookie contract, is due to make a guaranteed $5.5 million in salary and bonuses. Ideally, the Jets would love to trade the contract and clear the $5.5 million from their salary cap, but it's highly unlikely that a team would absorb that much money for a quarterback with a 12-21 record and more interceptions than touchdown passes . The Jets will have to eat a chunk of the money to facilitate a trade, league sources said.
On Feb. 28, general manager Joe Douglas announced that Wilson had been granted permission to speak to other teams about a possible trade. From all indications, Wilson -- benched for two games last season -- wants to move on.
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