Haason Reddick Turned Down Another Contract From Jets Earlier This Season

According to Ian Rapoport, Jets DE Haason Reddick turned down a one-year contract offer from the Jets earlier this season that would have ended the holdout. 

The deal also would have given Reddick a chance to earn back the money he lost from fines and improve upon his scheduled $14.25 million base salary in 2024. 

However, Reddick didn’t sign the offer, continuing to hold out for a multi-year deal with significant guarantees which at this point Rapoport says is unlikely to come from any team. 

This past week, Reddick’s agency essentially fired him, which is a rarity and provides a little bit of insight into some of the frustrations within Reddick’s camp about his decision-making process. 

Reddick has missed five games this season and has forfeited over $4 million in total this season, which is around $800,000 per game. Beyond that, Reddick has been fined another $5 million for his holdout stretching back to minicamp. 

There continues to be no apparent end in sight, although Reddick must report to the team by Week 13 to avoid his contract tolling and his rights remaining with New York next season. 

Reddick, 29, is a former first-round pick of the Cardinals out of Temple back in 2017. He was entering the final year of his four-year, $13.47 million fully guaranteed contract when the Cardinals opted to decline his fifth-year option worth $10,089,000 for the 2021 season.

Reddick was testing the open market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his NFL career when he signed a one-year deal with the Panthers worth up to $8 million. Philadelphia then signed him to a three-year, $45 million deal in March of 2021.

The Eagles then traded Reddick to the Jets in the final year of that deal for a conditional third-round pick in 2026.

In 2023, Reddick appeared in all 17 games and recorded 38 total tackles, 13 tackles for loss, 11 sacks, and one pass deflection. 

We’ll have more on Reddick as the news is available.