The New York Jets are placing a substantial value tag on Robby Anderson.
The crew is inserting a second-spherical tender on the receiver, who is a limited absolutely free agent, a supply instructed NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport on Thursday. The tender is reportedly truly worth $3.11 million.
As an RFA, Anderson could still indication an offer sheet from a crew prepared to section with a second-spherical decide for his providers, but that is unlikely.
This shift almost ensures New York will retain Anderson in the constructing in 2019, something that was telegraphed soon after Jets coach Adam Gase spoke glowingly of Anderson on Wednesday.
“Soon after watching him, I was amazed with his velocity. It was distinctive. You do not see a entire bunch of guys who have what he has,” Gase claimed of the wideout. “The way he assaults the ball down the area, I do not think I’ve at any time been close to a player that does it as clean.
“We’re just heading to retain making an attempt to think of methods to get him the ball, methods to build variety in his routes. Instead of accomplishing just one particular or two items, possibly we can open up that factor up to five, 6, seven items where he’s a menace on numerous concentrations, no matter whether it is beneath, intermediate or down the area.”
Anderson has been a unsafe if inconsistent weapon for the Jets because they signed him as an undrafted absolutely free agent in 2016. In three year, the fast deep menace has totaled 155 receptions for 2,280 acquiring yards and 15 touchdowns.
Anderson re-joins Quincy Enunwa, who received a 4-calendar year extension in December, in New York’s receivers space in 2019 Jermaine Kearse is a absolutely free agent. With their surplus of cap place, the Jets are candidates to go soon after yet another skill-posture player in absolutely free agency, possibly one particular of the shortly-to-be-previous Steelers in Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown.
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February 28, 2019
