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Rich Cimini, ESPN Staff Writer
The New York Jets have granted holdout defensive end Haason Reddick permission to seek a trade, owner Woody Johnson said Tuesday at the NFL’s fall owners’ meetings.
The development comes a day after Reddick hired Drew Rosenhaus and Ryan Matha as his new agents.
Rosenhaus, who attended Monday night’s game against the Buffalo Bills, met before the game with general manager Joe Douglas. Afterward, Rosenhaus told ESPN they’re having “a healthy dialogue.”
Reddick, 30, acquired in a March 29 trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, is the NFL’s last remaining holdout. The saga took a strange turn last week when CAA dropped him as a client. CAA and the Jets were conducting talks toward a renegotiated contract, but Reddick apparently refused to budge from his desire to get a long-term extension.
Reddick has skipped all team events since the trade, forfeiting about $4.7 million in game checks and accruing another $5 million in NFL-mandated fines.
Reddick had earlier requested a trade, but Jets Douglas rebuffed that request.
The Jets acquired him with one year, $14.25 million in nonguaranteed base pay remaining on his contract. Reddick, who has 50.5 sacks over the previous four seasons, demanded a long-term deal commensurate with the top pass rushers. The Eagles decided to trade him instead of paying him.
The Jets offered an extension at the time of the trade, but it was quickly rejected. At that point, Reddick agreed to play under his existing contract, according to the team. Reddick evidently felt he was promised a long-term extension, so he didn’t report to any offseason events or training camp.
After losing pass rusher Bryce Huff to the Eagles in free agency, the Jets traded for Reddick, sending a conditional 2026 third-round pick to the Eagles. If Reddick isn’t traded and doesn’t report by Week 13, he won’t get credit for the season and his contract will toll, meaning the Jets would retain his rights for 2025 instead of him becoming a free agent.