Teddy Bridgewater just signed a one year contract this offseason with the New York Jets that's worth up to six million dollars.
Only one million dollars of that though is guaranteed and there are some who believe that if the Jets take a quarterback in this years draft, Bridgewater could be on the trading on the block. Dan Graziano of ESPN put him on a list of players who might be traded.
Stick with me here: The Jets have veteran Josh McCown penciled in as the starter and are likely to take a quarterback with the No. 3 overall pick. If that pick is a guy who might be able to play right away (Baker Mayfield? Josh Rosen?), that reduces Bridgewater’s chances of even making the team in training camp. Their commitment on the new contract is only a $500,000 signing bonus that already has been paid. If some team that hoped to get a quarterback in the draft ends up disappointed, the Jets could find a trade market for Bridgewater, who won’t present much risk at all to a potential acquiring team.
The big question though is how big of a trade market would their actually be for Bridgewater. If the best contract he could find was one million dollars guaranteed by the Jets, is there really going to be much of a market for a team willing to give up anything to get a quarterback coming off a major knee injury?
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