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The NFL Transaction Deadline has expired at 4:00 pm Tuesday.
And the Jets – 3-5 in the middle of their season for the third year in a row – chose not to move. The neither acquired nor exchanged any one.
Even if it was not a day of sexy gestures – or any moves – for the Jets, staying tight on the trading deadline was the right decision for a company in the process of rebuilding.
In particular, the Jets had an interest in the Jaguars pass runner Dante Fowler, whom the Rams landed in a trade on Tuesday. But the Rams sent a third round pick in 2019 and a fifth round in 2020 to the Jaguars for Fowler.
The Jets would have been stupid to do it. Yes, they need an armory. (They are currently 26th in the NFL in sack percentage.) And yes, Fowler could have helped them in that regard, even though he has no great stats – 14 sacks in two seasons or more, including two bags this year.
But giving up this kind of temporary capital for Fowler, who will be an unrestricted free agent after this season, would have been useless for the Jets, who are not a winning team now. And because of this, they do not need a two month rental player like Fowler.
Expect the Jets to be interested in Fowler during the upcoming off-season, free Edge rusher mode is one of their biggest holes, as their rebuilding process continues.
The Jets are also in a position – with several holes in their list – where they should keep their draft picks and not trade them.
Do not forget that the Jets do not have a second round in 2019 because they sent it to the Colts as part of the preliminary agreement that resulted in the embarkation quarterback Sam Darnold of the Jets in 3rd place. The Jets have two-thirds – with one more coming from the Saints in Teddy Bridgewater's trade – so there is some potential value for the Jets in the third round.
The Jets currently have six choices – before the compensating choices are handed out – for 2019, since they sent their sixth round to the Saints in this Bridgewater trade. They therefore have a choice in the first round, zero in the second round, two in the third round, one in the fourth round, one in the fifth round, one in the sixth round and one in the seventh round.
Overthecap.com currently expects the Jets will not receive any compensatory choice for 2019, so they could very well enter the draft next year with only these six choices.
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And in terms of having more draft picks, the Jets do not have players on demand on their roster who were (or should be) willing to trade. It's not like the Jets are going to leave young budding beginners like Jamal Adams or Marcus Maye protections, even though another team would surely like to have guys like that.
The deadline for trade has therefore gone and comes quietly for the Jets, who should make a lot more noise in free agency during the next off season. Overthecap.com currently expects that they will have a maximum salary space of $ 106.863 million at the end of the season, the second highest number in the league.
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