Jets Declining DT Mike Pennel’s Option

Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Jets are not picking up the option for the final two years of DT Mike Pennel’s contract. 

Pennel was owed an option bonus worth $1 million on Tuesday, but he’ll now become a free agent in March. 

Pennel, 27, wound up signing on with the Packers as an undrafted free agent out of Colorado State-Pueblo back in 2014. He was waived towards the end of 2016 and was later claimed off of waivers by the Jets.

The Jets re-signed Pennel to a three-year contract worth up to $12 million last year. 

In 2018, Pennel appeared in all 16 games for the Jets and recorded 27 tackles, no sacks an a pass defense.