{"id":167338,"date":"2026-03-18T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167338\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:56:31","slug":"jets-trading-justin-fields-to-chiefs-for-6th-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167338\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets trading Justin Fields to Chiefs for 6th-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nov 13, 2025; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields (7) throws a pass against the New England Patriots in the fourth quarter at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Justin Fields era in New York is officially over, as the Jets agreed to trade the quarterback to the Kansas City Chiefs for a 2027 sixth-round draft pick, per multiple reports on Monday.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Chiefs will be taking on $3 million of Fields\u2019 salary next season, the final year of his contract before becoming a free agent.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

It signals an end to a disastrous experiment in the Meadowlands, as head coach Aaron Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey announced their arrivals to the organization by giving Fields a two-year deal in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle and developing a legitimate dual-threat quarterback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That never happened.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Fields started just nine games with the Jets last season before getting benched, going 2-7 while throwing for 1,259 yards with seven touchdowns and one interception.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Injuries punctuated his time in New York, too. He suffered a concussion before a knee injury put him on injured reserve, while Glenn was forced to start career backup Tyrod Taylor and undrafted rookie Brady Cook. New York went 4-13<\/a> and holds the No. 2 pick at the 2026 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s draft class features only one can\u2019t-miss quarterback prospect in Indiana\u2019s Fernando Mendoza, and the Las Vegas Raiders are going to take him with the No. 1 overall pick. It forced the Jets to pivot and trade for Geno Smith, the veteran quarterback who was a second-round draft pick of the team in 2013 and spent four years with them before being given up on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Kansas City, Fields will back up star passer Patrick Mahomes, who is coming off a 2025 campaign that ended early due to a torn ACL and LCL. He could figure as a wildcat option to add more versatility to the Chiefs\u2019 offense, though it was something he was unwilling to do with the Jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more on Justin Fields and the Jets, visit AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 13, 2025; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields (7) throws a pass against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12160,6768,9,24,55,54,22,56,319],"class_list":["post-167338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-jets","tag-justin-fields","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nfl","tag-ny","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}