{"id":61525,"date":"2022-12-24T03:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=61525"},"modified":"2022-12-24T03:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T07:31:35","slug":"lawson-tomlinson-and-mosley-top-list-of-potential-cap-saving-moves-as-offseason-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/12\/24\/lawson-tomlinson-and-mosley-top-list-of-potential-cap-saving-moves-as-offseason-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawson, Tomlinson and Mosley top List of Potential cap Saving Moves as Offseason Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all likelihood, the New York Jets offseason will kick off in just over two weeks as the team plays out the string.\u00a0 Two remaining games on the road against Seattle and Miami await.\u00a0 With the team needing to win both games and get a ton of help elsewhere, we&#8217;ll assume for just a moment that these will be the final two games of the 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we asked a few days ago which Jets veterans may be let go to create cap space for the upcoming free agency period and there were a few names that jumped out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are any of these guys playing well enough to justify keeping on the roster at their current salaries vs projected savings?  <\/p>\n<p>2023 cap hit\/savings if cut<\/p>\n<p>Mosley: $21mil\/17 mil<br \/>Lawson: $15.3 mil\/15 mil<br \/>Davis: $11.1 mil\/10.5 mil<br \/>Tomlinson: $17 mil\/13 mil<br \/>Berrios: $8.2 mil\/5 mil<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glenn Naughton (@JNRadio_Glenn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JNRadio_Glenn\/status\/1604729318831267840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Looking at projected post June 1st cap hits per <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/\"><strong>overthecap.com<\/strong><\/a>, here are some of the names we may hear as players who, barring a huge pay cut, may be asked to move on in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MLB CJ Mosley: <\/strong>The Jets re-worked Mosley&#8217;s contract earlier this season and has been at the center of what has been a very good defense all season.\u00a0 Per pfr.com, Mosley has logged 142 tackles this year with 86 of them being of the solo variety.\u00a0 Mosley has played every snap of every game with the exception of the first meeting with the Bills.\u00a0 When Mosely came off, the Bills exposed it and made multiple plays up the middle.\u00a0 His absence would certainly sting, but the Jets have to ask themselves if what Mosley brings is worth his $21 million cap charge.\u00a0 Cutting ties with the veteran linebacker would leave the Jets with $4.4 million in dead cap while saving them $17 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OG Laken Tomlinson: <\/strong>Easily the most disappointing free agent addition of this past offseason, Tomlinson has been a durable player whose performance has been all over the map.\u00a0 Tomlinson will go from solid performer one week to looking completely overmatched the next.\u00a0 That type of inconsistency isn&#8217;t acceptable for a player who carries a $17 million cap hit in 2023.\u00a0 The only player on this list that would hurt the Jets financially in 2023, Tomlinson would save the Jets just $3 million while incurring a $13 million cap hit.\u00a0 The tweet above had the hit and the savings flipped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DE Carl Lawson:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, what could have been.\u00a0 When the Jets signed Lawson as a free agent two seasons ago, twitter was abuzz with his dominant pre-season performance.\u00a0 One observer after another gushing over Lawson being &#8220;unlockable&#8217;.\u00a0 He was going to finally be the answer to the team&#8217;s prayers at edge rusher.\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t meant to be.\u00a0 Lawson would miss the entire 2021 season with a ruptured achilles.\u00a0 He returned this season, but gone were the rave reviews about an explosive defender as Lawson has managed to be disruptive at times, but nowhere near often enough to justify his salary.\u00a0 Cutting Lawson saves the Jets $15 million and comes with just a $333,000 dead money hit.\u00a0 A re-worked deal is also a possibility for Lawson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WR Corey Davis:\u00a0<\/strong>Davis is an interesting case.\u00a0 His lack of durability would presumably make him a lock to be let go, but it&#8217;s not that simple.\u00a0 Since signing Davis, we&#8217;ve seen the wide receiver market explode to the point of some pass catchers being given franchise quarterback money.\u00a0 While Davis isn&#8217;t quite at that level, his production (when healthy) makes him a bargain at $11 million.\u00a0 Had he stayed healthy this season, Davis may have even talked to the Jets about a pay raise.\u00a0 But as it stands, he will have missed 12 games through two seasons in Green and White.\u00a0 His drop against Jacksonville this Sunday gave fans flashbacks to his struggles of 2022, but in in all reality Davis has dropped just 2 passes this season according to PFF.com\u00a0 The other coming in week 1 on his first target of the season.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not as big of an issue as social media would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WR Braxton Berrios:\u00a0<\/strong>Berrios has spent the majority of the 2022 season being completely invisible.\u00a0 Not a whole lot of production as a receiver or a return man.\u00a0 People seemed to give him a pass because there was so much going on, but then Berrios went from invisible to unmissable; and not for the right reasons.\u00a0 Failing to hold on to what would have been a difficult but game-winning touchdown vs the Vikings wasn&#8217;t the best look.\u00a0 Then a slew of bad decisions as a punt returner and wasted reps at receiver put Berrios under the microscope.\u00a0 Is his production worth his 2023 price tag of over $8 million?\u00a0 Certainly not.\u00a0 Is it a cost that will bog the Jets down and encourage them to move on?\u00a0 Nobody could blame them if it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all likelihood, the New York Jets offseason will kick off in just over two weeks as the team plays out the string.\u00a0 Two remaining games on the road against Seattle and Miami await.\u00a0 With the team needing to win both games and get a ton of help elsewhere, we&#8217;ll assume for just a moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":56675,"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":[6],"tags":[3141,3286,3051,3289,3399],"class_list":{"0":"post-61525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-braxton-berrios","9":"tag-carl-lawson","10":"tag-cj-mosley","11":"tag-corey-davis","12":"tag-laken-tomlinson"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Carl_Lawson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-g0l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61525","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=61525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61526,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61525\/revisions\/61526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}