Has Haason Reddick entered your chat yet?
No, and there is no reason he should. We already have one bendy speed rusher we don’t know what to do with. He is a poor cultural fit, and schematically suboptimal.
Aaron Glenn has a type. He ain’t it.
Whoops. I love when one of the most respected members of the national football media has my back. And to think, Bill Barnwell, we don't even know each other. Kudos, brah. Thinks it'll take only a sixth. I think that's a pipe dream. The Philly thread says the Jets' pick they gave up for Reddick becomes a second if he goes to the NFC, but I haven't seen anything about that. If so, this is all for naught even in speculation.
By the way, I know about edge setting and all that. Thanks for the personnel, uh, football, uh, I mean just lesson in general. I got pwny pwny pwned.
Lions add short-term pass-rush assistance
Jets get: 2026 sixth-round pick
Lions get: Edge
Haason Reddick
There aren't many options for the Lions, who have now lost both of their starting edge rushers to season-ending injuries. They might have been able to get by without
Marcus Davenport (
triceps), but there's no replacing
Aidan Hutchinson, who was a
Defensive Player of the Year candidate before
breaking his leg in Sunday's win
over the Cowboys. With championship ambitions, Detroit needs to do whatever it can to find pass rushers with the potential to make an immediate impact.
I'd advocate for both the Lions and Raiders to consider an all-in move for
Maxx Crosby, but the star pass rusher has said he
doesn't want to leave Las Vegas. The best edge rusher who is actually available on the trade market is Reddick, who has spent the year accruing about
$5 million in fines for not reporting to the Jets. He has insisted on landing a new contract before he
steps back onto the field, and there's little reason to believe he'll give in on those demands now.
Davenport is a free agent after the season, and while Hutchinson will be eligible for an extension in 2025, both sides might want to wait for him to recover fully from his injury before negotiating a new contract. There's a window here in which the Lions could give Reddick a deal with guaranteed money running through the 2025 season. A two-year, $40 million extension to Reddick's existing deal would allow him to claim some victory for his holdout, while Detroit would land the pass rusher it sorely needs. The Jets aren't going to get the third-round pick they
sent to the Eagles for Reddick, but that's a sunk cost now.
– Bill Barnwell
