By Dianna Russini, Zack Rosenblatt and Larry Holder
The contract and holdout saga for New York Jets edge rusher Haason Reddick took its latest turn as Reddick has hired famed agent Drew Rosenhaus to represent him, Rosenhaus told The Athletic. Last week, CAA agent Tony Dandy parted ways from Reddick amid the contract dispute between the edge rusher and the Jets.
Reddick has yet to step foot on a Jets practice field, much less a game, since New York traded for Reddick this offseason, sending a conditional 2026 third-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles. The edge rusher requested a trade from the Jets in August.
Last week, Jets owner Woody Johnson pleaded for Reddick to join the team. Johnson’s call for Reddick came right after the team fired coach Robert Saleh.
“Haason, get in your car, drive down I-95 and come to the New York Jets,” Johnson said last Tuesday.
The Jets face the Buffalo Bills on Monday in Week 6. Six weeks into the 2024 season, Reddick hasn’t played a snap, forfeiting about one-third of his non-guaranteed base salary of $14.25 million. (Reddick also skipped all offseason team events, collecting more than $8 million in total fines so far this year, per ESPN.)
Reddick had established himself as one of the NFL’s best pass rushers. He felt like he earned a raise this offseason after finishing fourth in Defensive Player of the Year voting following a 16-sack season in 2022 and 11 sacks and 23 quarterback hits in 2023. But the Eagles wouldn’t give him the raise he sought and instead allowed him to seek a trade.
The Jets then picked up Reddick knowing he wanted a contract adjustment. New York made a below-market offer before the trade, but Reddick turned it down, and the Jets moved forward with the acquisition without a new deal in place. The Jets said they didn’t make a new offer on a long-term extension because Reddick’s agent informed the team that he would play under his current contract. However, Reddick’s camp believed the Jets would do a deal and trusted this would get done by training camp.
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