{"id":38393,"date":"2018-01-12T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=38393"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:52:11","slug":"new-york-jets-report-seferian-jenkins-turns-down-jets-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/01\/12\/new-york-jets-report-seferian-jenkins-turns-down-jets-contract-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Seferian-Jenkins Turns Down Jets Contract Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Watkins of Newsday is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/sports\/football\/jets\/jets-kirk-cousins-1.16127010\"><strong>reporting<\/strong><\/a> that Gang Green and tight end Austin Seferian-Jeknins are in fact talking about a new contract, but Seferian-Jenkins turned down the Jets initial two-year offer for $8 million but the sides will continue negotiating.\u00a0 From Watkins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the Jets\u2019 free agents, tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, has had contract talks with the team, a source said. The Jets offered him a two-year, $8-million deal and were rejected, but they will continue talks with his representatives. Seferian-Jenkins had career highs in receptions (50) and yards (357) and had three touchdown catches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seferian-Jenkins is looking to top the $6 million mark so the parties may meet in the middle at some point as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p>While the $6 million mark may have been a fair expectation at one point this season, the fact that the tight end struggled in the second half could change that.\u00a0 Seferian-Jenkins averaged just 3 receptions per game over the final 8 contests without a touchdown.\u00a0 How much of that was on fatigue as it was the first time he&#8217;d played more than 9 games in\u00a0 a season, and how much of it was on the switch from Josh McCown to Bryce Petty over the season&#8217;s last few games?<\/p>\n<p>We should know in the coming weeks (or months) just how the two sides view the tight end&#8217;s value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Watkins of Newsday is reporting that Gang Green and tight end Austin Seferian-Jeknins are in fact talking about a new contract, but Seferian-Jenkins turned down the Jets initial two-year offer for $8 million but the sides will continue negotiating.\u00a0 From Watkins: One of the Jets\u2019 free agents, tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, has had contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":37851,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-38393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-calvin-watkins"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_4353a-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-9Zf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38394,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions\/38394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}