Five days remain until this year’s trade deadline. Even after sending Michael Carter II to the Eagles, the Jets remain a team to watch regarding more seller’s moves.
Teams are monitoring a few Jets, defenders Jermaine Johnson, Quincy Williams and Quinnen Williams among them. While Allen Lazard is known to be available, Breece Hall remains the top skill-position trade chip. As it stands, Gang Green continues to set a high price, according to Fox Sports’ Ralph Vacchiano and Eric Williams. The team is rebuffing inquiries as it stands, and it is possible its stance has changed in recent weeks.
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Although Aaron Glenn said earlier this month he did not want to see his starting running back traded, ESPN.com’s Dan Graziano notes his previous expectation was for Hall to be dealt at the deadline. Now, though, some in the Jets’ building are leery about moving on from the team’s four-year starting RB.
The situation now looks to feature stronger Jets consideration of re-signing Hall as a free agent, which will obviously produce a higher asking price to part with him now in a trade. No extension talks are known to have taken place, and preseason word pointed to the former second-round pick playing out his rookie contract. Trade buzz has persisted in the weeks since.
Thus far, Hall has delivered a bounce-back season. He was instrumental in the Jets picking up their first Glenn-era win, rushing for two touchdowns and adding a TD toss to Mason Taylor. Hall has three 100-yard games this season and is naturally generating interest from RB-needy teams.
Going through a bye week, the Jets also would need to make a significant pivot if they moved Hall. The team’s top Hall complementary piece entering the season, Braelon Allen, is recovering from knee surgery, via ESPN.com’s Rich Cimini. Allen was not certain to undergo a procedure, with rehab a route believed to be available as well. While the second-year back did go under the knife, Cimini adds this does not change his two- to three-month recovery timetable.
A Hall trade would bump 2024 fifth-round pick Isaiah Davis to the top of the Jets’ depth chart. Davis has provided a spark as a backup with Allen sidelined, but a Hall trade would also force the Jets to consider how an Allen-Davis tandem would look anchoring the team’s backfield come 2026.
Hall could net the Jets a 2027 compensatory pick as a departing free agent, depending on the RB’s market and how the team approaches free agency in 2026. A move now would likely hand the Jets a pick or two in 2026, as Glenn and GM Darren Mougey look to continue adding their own talent to mix in with Joe Douglas‘ pieces.
After averaging 4.2 yards per carry in 2022, Hall is at 5.0 (581 in total) through eight games. Like Javonte Williams in Dallas, Hall appears to have completed a belated return to form after a 2022 ACL tear. The Jets would have competition for his services in free agency, but the team has until the mid-March legal tampering period to negotiate exclusively with the RB — that is, if it does not move on before the Nov. 4 deadline.
What do the grandkids, and Madden ’25 have to say about this?
Good lord just move him. You are years from being a contender without a future or current QB. By the time they hopefully contend Hall will be a timeshare back at best. This has to be posturing.
This is a silly stance by the Jets. Running backs are replaceable. Get what you can, while you can.
The appeal would be tag him for next year and have your rookie QB have the most weapons around him as you can, its not the craziest stance. Especially if no one is really offering anything significant
Publicly, Hall is saying he wants to stay with the Jets but we all know he’s probably writing love letters to Howie Roseman when alone 🙂
Hall just won an emotional game for the Jets with his running and his halfback-option TD pass — yet everyone wants him traded.
The peanut gallery gets too many ideas from tabloids and talk radio.
Against the worst defense in the NFL to get his team their first win of the season halfway through the year.
He’s a great RB, but he’s not going to turn them into a contender. Don’t understand your point in keeping him just because of the Jets love story that was week 8.
And those who are easily brainwashed are those that don’t calculate the fan outrage were the Jets to trade Hall.
This isn’t the Dallas Cowboys in 1989.
You need to have a smooth brain to fall for this, Jets trying all they can to pretend like they dont want to trade him.