Haason Reddick is ending his long holdout with the New York Jets and will report to the team on Monday.
Agent Drew Rosenhaus told The Associated Press on Sunday that Reddick agreed to an adjusted contract for this season and the sides will continue to work toward a long-term deal beyond this year.
The agreement came less than a week after Reddick was given permission by the Jets to seek a trade. He has not played this season while in a contract dispute with the Jets, who acquired him from Philadelphia in late March to boost their pass rush.
ESPN first reported that Reddick was ending his holdout. NFL Network reported that the Jets agreed to cover $12 million in NFL-mandated fines that Reddick accumulated in the form of a bonus for him reporting to the team.
Rosenhaus, who along with Ryan Matha now represents Reddick after the player recently switched agents, said last week that Reddick "would like to be a New York Jet for years to come.” That came a day before Jets owner Woody Johnson said at the NFL’s fall meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday that the team would allow Reddick to explore a trade.
It turns out Reddick is staying put, at least for the rest of this season.
The star edge rusher, who was the NFL's lone remaining holdout, has not been with the Jets since his trade was finalized and he passed his physical on April 1.
The 30-year-old Reddick was placed on the reserve/did not report list on July 25, the second day of the team’s training camp practice. He requested to be traded on Aug. 12, but general manager Joe Douglas quickly nixed that, saying New York would not grant his wish.
The Jets are playing the Steelers in Pittsburgh on Sunday night after a tumultuous two weeks. New York stunningly fired coach Robert Saleh on Oct. 8 and replaced him with defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich as the interim coach. Ulbrich demoted offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett as the play caller in favor of passing game coordinator Todd Downing.
In a long-anticipated move, the Jets completed a trade last Tuesday to acquire wide receiver Davante Adams from Las Vegas, reuniting him with longtime Green Bay teammate Aaron Rodgers. Adams, who missed the Raiders' last three games, was expected to play against the Steelers.
And now New York will have Reddick in the mix on defense — finally.
He was scheduled to make $14.25 million in nonguaranteed base salary in the final year of his contract, but he wanted a long-term extension from Philadelphia. When the Eagles declined to give him a new deal, Reddick asked for a trade and ended up in New York.
During a conference call discuss Saleh's firing, Johnson made a direct plea to Reddick to join the the team.
“Haason, get in your car, drive down (Interstate) 95 and come to the New York Jets,” Johnson said of the native of Camden, New Jersey. “We can meet you and give you an escort right into the building and you’ll fit right in. And you’re going to love it here and you’re going to feel welcome and you’re going to accomplish great things with us.”
The two-time Pro Bowl edge rusher has 58 career sacks in seven NFL seasons.
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Haason Reddick is ending his contract holdout and plans to report to the Jets on Monday
Haason Reddick is ending his contract holdout and plans to report to the Jets on Monday
FILE - Then-Philadelphia Eagles' Haason Reddick walks off the field at halftime of an NFL football game, Dec. 31, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
ATLANTA (AP) — Kamala Harris is going to church in Georgia on Sunday, where she will speak to the faithful and encourage Black congregants to vote as part of a nationwide campaign push known as “souls to the polls."
The Democratic nominee for president plans to attend services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest and Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro, joined by singer Stevie Wonder, before taping an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is scheduled to go to church in Saginaw, Michigan, and his wife, Gwen, will be at a service in Las Vegas.
The mobilization effort that launched Oct. 20 is led by the National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders, which is sending representatives across battleground states as early voting begins in the Nov. 5 election.
“My father used to say, a ‘voteless people is a powerless people’ and one of the most important steps we can take is that short step to the ballot box," Martin Luther King III said Friday. “When Black voters are organized and engaged, we have the power to shift the trajectory of this nation.”
The schedule for Harris on her 60th birthday reflects her campaign's push to treat every voting group like a swing state voter, trying to appeal to them all in a tightly contested election with early voting in progress.
On Saturday, the vice president rallied supporters in Detroit with singer Lizzo before traveling to Atlanta to focus on abortion rights, highlighting the death of a Georgia mother amid the state's restrictive abortion laws that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court, with three justices nominated by Donald Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade.
And after her Sunday push, she will campaign with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
“Donald Trump still refuses to take accountability, to take any accountability, for the pain and the suffering he has caused,” Harris said.
Harris is a Baptist whose husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish. She has said she’s inspired by the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and influenced by the religious traditions of her mother’s native India as well as the Black Church. Harris sang in the choir as a child at Twenty Third Avenue Church of God in Oakland.
“Faith is a verb. It is something we show in action and in service,” she said on Instagram last week as she attended services at a church in Greenville, North Carolina.
“Souls to the polls” as an idea traces back to the Civil Rights Movement. The Rev. George Lee, a Black entrepreneur from Mississippi, was killed by white supremacists in 1955 after he helped nearly 100 Black residents register to vote in the town of Belzoni. The cemetery where Lee is buried has served as a polling place.
Black church congregations across the country have undertaken get-out-the-vote campaigns for years. In part to counteract voter suppression tactics that date back to the Jim Crow era, early voting in the Black community is stressed from pulpits nearly as much as it is by candidates.
In Georgia, early voting began on Tuesday, and more than 310,000 people voted on that day, more than doubling the first-day total in 2020. A record 5 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris high-fives people in the crowd after speaking at a campaign event at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak at a campaign event at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Lakewood Amphitheatre, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
