4 ways a canceled 2020 NFL season could impact the Jets

Jets Wire breaks down four ways the Jets will be impacted by a canceled 2020 season.

Contractual implications

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Jets general manager Joe Douglas earned a lot of praise for bringing in quality free agents on short-term deals for the 2020 season. If football is not played this Fall, though, Douglas’ offseason dealings could have been all for naught.

Pierre Desir, Joe Flacco, Jordan Jenkins, Frank Gore, Brian Poole and Breshad Perriman are all set to hit free agency next Spring. Marcus Maye’s contract is also set to expire, as is Avery Williamson’s. Douglas was going to have to deal with a lot of expiring contracts next offseason, but at least he was going to get something out of those deals in 2020.

It’s too early to tell how the NFL would address contracts if the season was canceled, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility that deals could be honored, at least in regard to service time. For comparison, any Major League Baseball player who was set to hit the open market after the 2020 campaign is still going to become a free agent even if the league cancels its season.

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