Jets DE Haason Reddick To Make Season Debut In Week 8

Jets’ interim HC Jeff Ulbrich said DE Haason Reddick will make his season debut in Week 8’s game against the Patriots, per Rich Cimini. 

New York will activate him from the exempt list in the near future, officially ending a holdout situation that has stretched since the summer.  

Reddick has missed seven games this season and has forfeited about $800,000 per game. 

The compromise between the two sides was brokered by Reddick’s new agent, Drew Rosenhaus, who said the two sides would continue to work on a long-term deal. Reddick is in the final year of his contract. 

While Reddick had permission to explore a trade last week, that always seemed like a way for the Jets to force Reddick to confront the realities of his market. 

New York will provide some recourse for $12 million in fines for Reddick, who will report to the team tomorrow and agree to fulfill his contractual responsibilities. 

Cimini elaborated earlier this week that while New York can’t waive the fines under the terms of the CBA, they added incentives for Reddick to potentially earn that money back. 

Reddick, 30, 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.

He 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.