I'm John B from gangreneation.com. This is the Locked-on Jets podcast, a bonus episode on this

Friday. Lots of news to break down. The Jets signed most of their rookie class. We'll get to that in a little bit,

but let's start with the big news of the day. The Jets and running back Brees Hall agreed to terms

on a three-year contract. Brice will be paid $15.25 million per year.

He will be the third highest paid running back in the league and get $29 million guaranteed.

I think that this was the right move for the Jets.

There are two reasons I say that.

Number one, we need to zoom out a little bit.

We talk a lot about what's fair value for a player, what's

an overpay, but I think we also need to acknowledge that a player may be valuable to one team

and not so valuable to another team. I think that Brees Hall is more valuable to the Jets than he

would be any of the other 31 teams. And a lot of that has to do with where the Jets are currently positioned.

We know that this is kind of the beginning stages of another attempt at a rebuild.

And the Jets don't really have much talent.

They also are sitting on a mountain of cap space.

And your salary cap situation can change dramatically in the league in a very short time

because it doesn't seem like that long ago that the Jets were really constricted. The Jets had a lot

of bad money on their books. Well, all you have to do is wait a couple of years, get that bad

money to leave your balance sheets. The Jets also made some trades that freed up some money along the way as well.

And I think it's fair to say now the Jets have more money than they'll be able to spend the next

couple of years. I mean, prior to this deal, Garrett Wilson was really the only veteran player

who was making major money. So you ask yourself, how do you spend it? And I think the Jets would have a tough time finding a more efficient way to spend it than on a player who's already produced for them, a guy who's been a quality veteran in the locker room, and a guy who fits their timeline, a guy who fits what they're trying to do.

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