Jets: 3 cap casualties who could alter 2021 NFL Draft plans
By Cory Kinnan
3. DL Henry Anderson
The sad state of the roster when a middling-to-above-average defensive lineman in the entirety of the league carries a top-five cap hit on your roster. This is the situation the Jets are faced with in the form of soon-to-be 30 year old defensive lineman Henry Anderson. He started just half the games for the gang green a year ago, and is now coming off of the worst season of his six year career.
How can the Jets justify paying Anderson up to nearly ten million dollars in 2021 based off of his current performance? Again, they have the cap space to upgrade in free agency, and do so for less money for what it is worth. They also have a world of draft assets to move around in order to upgrade the position as well; paying an underachieving veteran is not the way of the future.
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Should the Jets choose to move on from Anderson this offseason, they will see a cap savings of over eight million years, and will suffer a hit to their dead cap of just over one million dollars. Despite having cap space, that is not a reason to keep a player on the roster; at the end of the day, Douglas can use that money to either carry over cap space, or add another far more talented player to their team.