{"id":24288,"date":"2014-03-10T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=24288"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:57:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:57:30","slug":"wr-miles-austin-a-potential-jet-if-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/03\/10\/wr-miles-austin-a-potential-jet-if-released\/","title":{"rendered":"WR Miles Austin A Potential Jet If Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miles<\/a>The New York Jets will be looking to improve their receiving core this offseason considering every available option. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin<\/a> is a New Jersey native who played collegiately in the state at Monmouth University.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are in bad financial shape and with second year wideout Terrance Williams set to play a bigger role in their offense Austin will likely be a salary cap casualty. In order for the Cowboys to gain much needed cap space this year they need to release Austin after June 1. This will provide the team with $5.5 million in cap space on June 2 but push a $5.1 million charge for Austin into their 2015 cap, known as dead money.<\/p>\n

If the Jets are interested in Austin they would prefer to try and negotiate with him as soon as possible. The Cowboys could release Austin on March 12 with a post-June 1 designation, each team is provided two of these per year. This would allow Austin to become a free agent immediately instead of having to wait till June 2 but the Cowboys would get the salary cap relief they desire on June 2, just as if they had waited till then.<\/p>\n

Austin will be turning 30 in June and had a down injury plagued season last year with 24 receptions for 244 yards as he dealt with a hamstring issue but did have 66 receptions for 943 yards and 6 touchdowns in 2012. When healthy Austin is a speedy reliable playmaking receiver who could be had on a reasonable one-year incentive laden type contract.<\/p>\n

It would certainly be worth exploring bringing in Austin as the team is poised to lose receiver Santonio Holmes<\/a> and could use a veteran presence to go along with the likely rookie receiver or receivers they draft this year.<\/p>\n

Austin has the potential to be very productive with the Jets, basically a low risk high reward signing for a guy with local ties. If released general manager John Idzik and the Jets should definitely take a good hard look at bringing him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets will be looking to improve their receiving core this offseason considering every available option. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin is a New Jersey native who played collegiately in the state at Monmouth University. The Cowboys are in bad financial shape and with second year wideout Terrance Williams set to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Miles-Austin-TD.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6jK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24288"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}