{"id":72404,"date":"2025-12-16T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:36:11","slug":"jets-finally-cutting-44-million-free-agent-bust-allen-lazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72404\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets finally cutting $44 million free-agent bust Allen Lazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Lazard\u2019s Jets career has finally ended.<\/p>\n<p>Gang Green is releasing the veteran receiver, 30, toward the end of his third season with the team after signing one of the worst free-agent contracts in recent team history, The Post\u2019s Brian Costello confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The separation is being described as a mutual agreement, he further reported.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47338129;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37942051\" width=\"869\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/09-29-25-new-york-112461210.jpg\" alt=\"Allen Lazard #10 of the New York Jets walks off the field.\" class=\"wp-image-37942051\"  \/>Allen Lazard in September 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Lazard tallied 70 catches for 911 yards and eight touchdowns in 36 games after signing a four-year, $44 million contract ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>He notched just 10 catches for 70 yards and one score in 10 contests this year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible he could follow close buddy and ex-Jet quarterback Aaron Rodgers to Pittsburgh in hopes of making the playoffs with the AFC North leaders.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on this developing story\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen Lazard\u2019s Jets career has finally ended. Gang Green is releasing the veteran receiver, 30, toward the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36835,9,11,430,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-72404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-allen-lazard","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72404","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=72404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}