{"id":539632,"date":"2026-03-23T02:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539632\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:11:07","slug":"aaron-rodgers-justin-fields-will-count-for-48-million-in-2026-jets-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539632\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers, Justin Fields will count for $48 million in 2026 Jets cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dolphins and Cardinals aren\u2019t the only teams taking massive dead-money charges for quarterbacks no longer on the team. <\/p>\n<p>The Jets are, too.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Rich Cimini of ESPN, the Jets <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48261647\/new-york-jets-48-million-dead-money-aaron-rodgers-justin-fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">will carry $48 million<\/a> in 2026 for 2023-24 starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers and 2025 starting quarterback Justin Fields.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Jets have $104 million in total dead money this year, third highest in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The cap charge for Rodgers arises from his 2025 release, a post-June 1 designation that spread the dead money over two years. The Fields charge comes from the back end of his two-year contract signed in 2025, the recent trade that sent him to the Chiefs, and the fact that the Jets will pay $8 million of his $11 million in 2026 compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the Jets got quarterback Geno Smith for only $3.3 million this season. The better news is that, per Cimini, the Jets are expected to have more than $150 million in 2027 cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Jets will be operating in 2026 with more than a third of the $301.2 million salary cap devoted to players who no longer play for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins and Cardinals aren\u2019t the only teams taking massive dead-money charges for quarterbacks no longer on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-539632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539632","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=539632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}