The planes may have figured out a new way to get their pie and maybe even trade for it.
Often, a team that wants to trade a player that the team might otherwise release will spread the word about their impending termination, while waiting for the phone to ring. For Jets and receiver Corey Davis, Wednesday’s difficult developments look like an attempt to keep Davis off the active roster, while he waits for a trade offer.
Davis He said he would quit football. The planes swooped in announcing his retirement and placing him on the reserve / retired list. He allows the Jets to release him without releasing him, hold on to his rights with him not on the roster, and also anticipate the prospect of another team wanting a deal for the fifth overall pick in the 2017 draft (yes, the Giants took him over from Patrick Mahomes).
If Davis is truly retiring, he likely owes the Jets $667,000 in paid but unearned signing bonus money. Either way, the Jets sidestep $10.5 million in base salary — and create that much headroom.
Davis could have insisted he be released, if that was what the Jets had planned to do. That approach at least keeps alive the possibility, slim, that someone takes his 2023 salary, rather than Davis becoming a free agent and hunting for all he can get.
despite. Davis certainly wasn’t shying away from a sure eight-figure salary. It is likely that he had reason to believe the Jets would release him. They can still release him from the reserve retiree list.
Right now, if another team wants Davis, all they have to do is call the Jets.
