Five days away from this year’s trade deadline, the Jets are ready to be sellers. Both Robby Anderson and Leonard Williams are available for the right price, according to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News.
Both players are in the final years of their respective contracts, and the Jets are hoping to be sellers and add 2020 picks, per Mehta. Each Jets starter has surfaced in trade talks for a bit now, and the Jets tried to move Anderson before last year’s deadline. The Eagles were interested, but nothing materialized.
Williams is playing out a $14.2MM fifth-year option, while Anderson is attached to a second-round RFA tender worth $3.1MM. Neither is having a statistically productive season, though some of Anderson’s struggles can be traced to the Jets being without Sam Darnold for much of this season. Anderson led the past two Jet teams in receiving yards — 941 and 762, respectively — and produced a 125-yard game against the Cowboys in Darnold’s first game back. The deep threat will surely generate interest in the coming days.
The Jets have seen older wideouts produce strong trade returns this week. Anderson, 26, is four years younger than Mohamed Sanu and six years younger than Emmanuel Sanders. New York traded for Demaryius Thomas early in the season and has journeyman Josh Bellamy as an outside receiving option. With Anderson being a Mike Maccagnan-era investment, is is fair to assume he will not be in the now-Joe Douglas-run team’s plans after 2019.
The 2015 No. 6 overall pick, Williams has not recorded a sack this season and grades as Pro Football Focus’ No. 83 overall interior defender. Once rumored to be interested in extending Williams, the Jets are now reportedly seeking a package fronted by a third-round pick for the defensive end.
I wouldn’t mind trading anderson for a pick and signing josh gordon to replace him
Gordon plays for NE . or r u talking bout another Josh Gordon
Gordon has been put on IR for the rest of the season and then he’s an unrestricted free agent
hate to break it to u but Flash has officially been replaced by Mohammed, and he’ll be a free agent once the trade deadline passes
Gordon is on IR and it’s widely understood he’ll be waived once healthy
Jets philopshy: “we’re rebuilding!” “No we’re building!” “No we’re rebuilding!” and on & on it goes.
I think the Jets and Knicks flip a coin each year to decide whose turn it is to rebuild.
Jets looking for any teams that want to shop at “Underachievers-R-Us!”
Without a doubt the jets are a top 10 worst organizations in all professional sports.
Extreme hyperbole that is hard to prove, but they do have the fifth worst record in the NFL since the AFL-NFL merger. It’s tough being a fan. What Drew me in was the New York Sack Exchange when I was little.
Williams has always been a consistent blue collar type guy and I think he would draw interest from some playoff contenders. He certainly deserves some kind of reward for sticking with the Jets as long as he has.
Williams would be a great pick up for a playoff team. He would play a lot better in a better team. Plus he’s still young but he might cost abit to resign.
Might sound stupid but he would make the Rams even stronger on Defence. Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Williams that’s a strong core and one that isn’t old and can hang around together for a while.
As someone mentioned Josh Gordon would have to go through waivers after the Pats release him when healthy. Can’t be released until he I cleared to play. So Miami will have first crack bu the Jets would be close behind and could have a shot at him. Considering his personal issues I’m not so shore NYC is a good place for him. He can’t afford to have another setback with addiction issues. He is a very nice person and speaks very intelligently. Unlike Antonio Brown.
I’ve seen Leonard Williams mentioned in so many trade rumors but I haven’t seen anyone ESPN, NFLN etc really explain the Jets stance on him. L.Williams is a good player, proven to be durable by playing every game of his career, he hasn’t produced a lot of sacks, but that’s not the be all end all for DE/DT.
I figured with them drafting Quinnen Williams they’d try to build a strong d-line. I mean hell its taken the 49ers a handful of years Armstead (2015), Buckner(2016), S.Thomas(2017) & N.Bosa(2019) to finally see it come together.
The media pressure on sports teams in New York is far more intense than in any other city. You don’t get “a handful of years” to prove your worth.
It’d be nice to have Williams next to…we’ll…Williams, but the problem is he makes a ton and is due a new deal. So while the Jet DL is performing at a high level (check their avg per carry allowed), they need draft picks