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Rico Cimini
Florham Park, NJ-Continuing to rebuild its wide reception body, the New York jets signed the very busy veteran Josh Reynolds with a one-year contract on Thursday.
Reynolds, 30, will receive $ 2.75 million in guarantees, a source told Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. It is another experience experienced for the alleged field marshal Justin Fields, but the jets have not yet been made in the receiver. They need another creator of games to complement Garrett Wilson and will probably write a score.
Wilson and Allen Lazard are the only withdrawals with more than 27 career receptions, and there is a good possibility that Lazard will be triggered as a launch after June that would create $ 11 million in limit savings. They have already cut a key component of the group: Davante Adams, who was released before free agency in a movement related to the limit and then signed with the Los Angeles Rams.
Reynolds is like Lazard, 29, in the sense that he is a great receiver (6 feet 3), and his career numbers are almost identical: 233 receptions and 3,127 yards for Reynolds, 229 receptions and 3,077 yards for Lazard. The Jets recently gave Lazard permission to find an exchange, a sign that they are prepared to move from it.
At this time, its main receptors are Wilson, Reynolds and Tyler Johnson, whom they signed in the free agency with a one -year contract of $ 1.3 million. They also have Xavier Gipson and Malachi Corley, a third round of 2024 that saw a minimal action as a rookie.
Coach Aaron Glenn is familiar with Reynolds, since they overlap for three years with the Detroit Lions (2021-23). In fact, he was a headline for them in 2023, when he finished fourth in the team at receptions (40). The lions air game coordinator was Tanner Engstrand, who is now Glenn’s offensive coordinator.
In 2024, Reynolds signed a two -year contract and $ 9 million with the Denver Broncos, where the current general manager of the Jets, Darren Mougey, was a member of the main office.
It was a disappointing and almost tragic season for Reynolds, who wasting time with a fractured finger and also was shot in the left arm and the back of the head. He suffered only minor injuries.
Reynolds and two others told the police that they were in a club in Striptease in Glendale, Colorado, and they left at 2:45 am Reynolds and one of the men who left in a SUV, and then told the police that they were followed by multiple vehicles and shot.
In December, Reynolds was released by the Broncos and claimed by the Jacksonville Jaguars, who cut him on March 6.
“It’s one of those things I prefer to leave behind me,” Reynolds told journalists in Jacksonville about the shooting. “But anyone who passes through that, man, is a terrible crazy experience.”
Reynolds, a fourth round of the Rams in 2017, has played for five teams. His best season came with the Rams in 2020, when he made 52 trapped for 618 yards, both race maximums.
