The New York Jets were the biggest sellers at the NFL Trade Deadline , shipping out Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams. They sent Williams, with two years left on his contract, to the Dallas Cowboys for a first-round pick and a second-round pick . But the mistake rookie general manager Darren Mougey made was trading away Gardner before a massive extension began.

Mougey came in alongside head coach Aaron Glenn after the Joe Douglas/Robert Saleh regime was fired during last season. After the draft, where the Jets picked up some solid starters, Mougey signed two big extensions. Garrett Wilson signed a four-year, $130 million deal that keeps him around through 2030. And Gardner signed a four-year, $120.3 million deal that ran through 2030 as well.

Now, just months after that deal was

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