{"id":62214,"date":"2023-03-08T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=62214"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:36:06","slug":"jets-re-work-cj-uzomah-deal-to-free-up-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2023\/03\/08\/jets-re-work-cj-uzomah-deal-to-free-up-cap-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Re-Work CJ Uzomah Deal to Free up cap Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CJ Uzomah and the Jets appear be clearing a bit of cap space as the team takes their best shot at adding Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.\u00a0 Tom Pelissero is reporting that Joe Douglas and the Jets have re-worked Uzomah&#8217;s deal to free up $3.6 million in cap space.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> converted $4.5 million of TE C.J. Uzomah&#39;s salary into a bonus, clearing $3.6M in cap space.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1633451430764855297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Jets are tight against the cap while they <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2023\/03\/07\/aaron-rodgers-and-packers-reportedly-in-ongoing-talks-with-jets\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>talk shop with Rodgers<\/strong><\/span><\/a> about possibly coming on board for the 2023 season.\u00a0 As it stands, the Jets are just $1.8 million under the cap to start the day.\u00a0 If acquired, Rodgers would carry a cap hit of just under $16 million this season barring a re-worked deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJ Uzomah and the Jets appear be clearing a bit of cap space as the team takes their best shot at adding Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.\u00a0 Tom Pelissero is reporting that Joe Douglas and the Jets have re-worked Uzomah&#8217;s deal to free up $3.6 million in cap space. The #Jets converted $4.5 million of TE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":62165,"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":[3495,3402,3099],"class_list":{"0":"post-62214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-cj-uzomah","10":"tag-joe-douglas"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Joe-Douglas-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-gbs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62214","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=62214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62215,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62214\/revisions\/62215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}