{"id":528735,"date":"2026-03-17T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528735\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:30:08","slug":"jets-to-trade-qb-justin-fields-to-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528735\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets To Trade QB Justin Fields To Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected,\u00a0Justin Fields<\/a>\u2018 time in New York is coming to an end. A trade has been worked out which will send him from the Jets to the Chiefs, as first reported by ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This trade will include a late-round pick swap. The Jets are dealing Fields and a seventh-round pick to the Chiefs in exchange for a sixth-round pick, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network notes<\/a>. The sixth-rounder is in the 2027 draft, per colleague Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York is retaining salary to facilitate this deal, SNY\u2019s Connor Hughes reports<\/a>. Per Pelissero<\/a>, the Jets are taking on $7MM of the $10MM Fields was already guaranteed for the 2026 season. That will make him a cost-effective backup for the Chiefs, a team in need of insurance under center. Patrick Mahomes<\/a>\u00a0continues to recover from an ACL tear, leaving his Week 1 availability in question.<\/p>\n

Gardner Minshew<\/a>\u00a0was in place as Kansas City\u2019s backup, but he departed last week by agreeing to a free agent deal with the Cardinals. Fields will now be able to handle first-team reps through the offseason while Mahomes recovers. Other teams were interested in the former Bear and Steeler, per Schefter. He adds, however, that Fields\u2019 preference was to join the Chiefs. With an immediate path to practice time in place with respect to Kansas City, that comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n

For the Jets, a Fields departure was made even more likely once a reunion with\u00a0Geno Smith<\/a>\u00a0was worked out. New York traded for Smith<\/a> last week, and his contract was also reworked as part of the deal. The Jets will only be responsible for $3.3MM of Smith\u2019s compensation for 2026. Paying out a larger figure has allowed for a parting of ways in Fields\u2019 case, something which seemed inevitable<\/a> once his brief tenure atop the depth chart came to an end.<\/p>\n

The former first-rounder secured $30MM guaranteed on a two-year free agent deal last spring. Fields served as New York\u2019s starter for nine contests, averaging less than 140 passing yards per game with a career-low 6.2 yards per attempt average. He managed 383 rushing yards and four scores on the ground, but Fields and the Jets\u2019 passing game was the subject of public criticism from owner Woody Johnson before head coach\u00a0Aaron Glenn\u00a0decided to bench him.\u00a0Tyrod Taylor<\/a> and\u00a0Brady Cook<\/a>\u00a0saw time afterwards; Taylor is unsigned but Cook and\u00a0Bailey Zappe<\/a>\u00a0are still in place for the Jets.<\/p>\n

The cap savings ($11MM) and dead money charges ($12MM) generated by this trade are essentially a wash for New York. Kansas City, meanwhile, entered Monday with roughly $10MM in cap space \u2013 nowhere near as much as the Jets. Taking on Fields at a highly reduced rate will be key for the Chiefs as they sort out their QB depth chart. Fields will join Mahomes, Chris Oladokun<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jake Haener<\/a>\u00a0as signal-callers in Kansas City. The Ohio State product has expressed confidence he can still operate as a starter<\/a>, and the opportunity to do so on a short-term basis may present itself in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected,\u00a0Justin Fields\u2018 time in New York is coming to an end. A trade has been worked out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1818,1236,5702,10669,99,6182],"class_list":["post-528735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-justin-fields","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newsstand","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}