The New York Jets have traded Justin Fields, just as we predicted at Jets X-Factor less than an hour before the deal went down.
Fields is off to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he will have an opportunity to start in Week 1 for the injured Patrick Mahomes. The Jets have received a 2027 sixth-round pick in exchange for Fields, a return they will gladly accept for a quarterback who failed to net 100 passing yards in four of his nine starts this past season.
Alongside the incoming draft pick, the deal also features important salary cap ramifications for the Jets.
To facilitate the trade, New York will pay $7 million of Fields’ $10 million guaranteed base salary for the 2026 season.
While this sounds like the Jets are doing the Chiefs a favor, it is actually quite the…
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