Laken Tomlinson Cut

Edition #584

Good morning.

I know we’re not sending on a Tuesday at the moment, but we actually have some real news to talk about so I wanted to fire off a quick newsletter this morning. Laken Tomlinson is the first domino to fall in the Jets efforts to create cap and revitalise their offensive line.

Last night it was confirmed by Jeremy Fowler that the Jets had decided to release Laken Tomlinson.

This comes at a good time as we spent a fair bit of time last week discussing this very move. If you missed that newsletter you can read it HERE.

According to OTC, this is what happens to the cap hits as a result of it being a pre-June 1st cut.

The Jets release $8.1 million in cap savings in 2024 and have to eat $10.7 million this year. But as we said in the article last week, the Jets simply couldn’t pay $18,880,000 for a player who was statistically one of the worst performers at his position.

This means the Jets now have over $20 million in salary cap space, and the work has only just begun.

Unfortunately, this is another free-agent signing that didn’t work and another mark on the resume of Joe Douglas. Laken was poor the first year with the Jets trying to implement a system simialr to the one he worked in with San Francisco, when the Jets shifted to Keith Carter this year, he declined considerably.