Ron Sellers
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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According to these pages:
New York Jets Salary Cap - 2011
New York Jets - Free Agents
Jets have around $118M in salary cap charges tied up with their top 51. Hard to know for certain just how much cutting will need to be done without a CBA negotiated yet, but the 2009 cap was $128M, and the Jets will only have their 1st and 3rd to find impact guys in the first 3 rounds.
The above cap charge doesn't include their free agent list, which is:
Unrestricted
Shaun Ellis
Steve Weatherford
Brodney Pool
Tony Richardson
Braylon Edwards
Wayne Hunter
Trevor Pryce
Restricted
David Harris
Robert Turner
Nick Folk
Antonio Cromartie
Lance Laury
Santonio Holmes
Eric Smith
Brad Smith
James Ihedigbo
Drew Coleman
Kellen Clemens
Exclusive Rights
Marquice Cole
Michael Turkovich
Marcus Dixon
I'm going to take that list of restricted and unrestricted free agents with a grain of salt. For example Holmes has five years of service. The rules for amount of service in order to become a free agent were different last year; it was written into the previous CBA to be a one-time thing in the event of an uncapped year. I highly doubt we will see those same terms and conditions for free agency again in 2011.
Holmes will either be an unrestricted free agent, or we will have no free agency at all; I cannot envision a scenario where the NFLPA will go forward with the same rules of free agency as there was in 2010.