{"id":44659,"date":"2019-05-02T11:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=44659"},"modified":"2019-05-02T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:47:01","slug":"jets-decline-fifth-year-option-on-darron-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/05\/02\/jets-decline-fifth-year-option-on-darron-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Decline Fifth-Year Option on Darron Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jets GM Mike Maccagnan was non-committal following the NFL draft when he was asked about whether or not the Jets planned on exercising the team&#8217;s fifth-year option on linebacker Darron Lee, but now we have our answer and it comes as little surprise that the Jets won&#8217;t be picking it up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jets won\u2019t be picking up Darron Lee\u2019s 5th-year option (~$10M in 2020), but he could have a role in Greg Williams\u2019 D this yr. He was decent in coverage in \u201818. Don\u2019t rule out a trade in summer. Otherwise, his departure in free agency will help toward getting 2021 compensatory pick<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Manish Mehta (@MMehtaSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaSports\/status\/1123788827108216834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>All signs pointed to a Lee departure when the Jets <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/03\/12\/rapoport-jets-expected-to-sign-lb-c-j-mosley\/\"><strong>paid big bucks<\/strong><\/a> to add linebacker CJ Mosley in free agency.&nbsp; Should the Jets retain Lee this season, and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/143883-here%E2%80%99s-why-the-jets-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-so-quick-to-cut-ties-with-darron-lee\/\"><strong>a few reasons<\/strong><\/a> why they should, he could wind up landing the Jets a comp pick should he depart via free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jets GM Mike Maccagnan was non-committal following the NFL draft when he was asked about whether or not the Jets planned on exercising the team&#8217;s fifth-year option on linebacker Darron Lee, but now we have our answer and it comes as little surprise that the Jets won&#8217;t be picking it up. Jets won\u2019t be picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":33159,"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":[2373],"class_list":{"0":"post-44659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-darron-lee"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Darron-Lee.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-bCj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44659","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=44659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44661,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44659\/revisions\/44661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}