Report: Allen Lazard agrees to four-year, $44 million deal with Jets

Posted by Charean Williams on March 14, 2023, 4:33 PM EDT
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The Jets don’t yet have the quarterback they seek, but they are getting some of Aaron Rodgers‘ former teammates in place.

Earlier Tuesday came news that the Jets were working on deals to sign former Packers receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb.

They now have a deal in place with Lazard, per Jordan Schultz of theScore.com, with the sides agreeing to a four-year, $44 million contract with $22 million guaranteed.

Lazard, 27, is coming off his best season, with 60 catches for 788 yards and six touchdowns in 15 games.

In five seasons in Green Bay, he made 169 receptions for 2,236 yards and 20 touchdowns.

He joins a receiving corps that already includes Garrett Wilson and Elijah Moore.

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56 responses to “Report: Allen Lazard agrees to four-year, $44 million deal with Jets”

  2. Well, we know he isn’t afraid to block. Good signing, even if AR was not in the equation.

  3. As I said previously, Rodgers was waiting for the Jets to make good on his shopping list. That explained why players were saying package deal. Clearly, Rodgers is a Jet. That should make the AFCE fun and the NFCN weaker. When is the last time Detroit won the division?

  4. That’s a lot of money for a marginal #2 WR. Great blocker on screens and run plays to his side. The Rodgers trade details comes next. It’s about time dammit !!!

  8. Honestly adding him gives them three pretty good receivers. No matter who the quarterback is they definitely have some targets now

  10. Jets depth chart comprised of only Wilson, Moore and Mims before this signing. Jets depth chart improved. Lazard had 788 yards/6td in 2022. Lazard had 1301 yards/14td the last two years combined. Moore and Mims the last three years combined for 1293 yards/6td. So an upgrade over those two and familiar weapon for Rodgers…IF he actually is traded. Lazard in 2022 had 6td…Jets entire depth chart had 5td even when you include Wilson.

  14. Damn that’s a terrible contract. Too bad Green Bay didn’t overpay him. Jets are in for a huge mess.

  16. I thought Gollum threw him under the bus last year like he did with all of his receivers. Why would anyone want to place with a clown like that?

  17. Seems about right for a solid WR2 in this market. Chiefs just showed you don’t need a WR1 to have a #1 offense.

  20. Rodgers is requiring the empire be assembled before his shuttle arrives at the death star.

  21. Below average WR aided by playing with Rodgers where he had very few other options. The Jets will look really silly paying Lazard this much money if Rodgers doesn’t join the team.

  22. Great for AL, who’s a great teammate and pretty good player. But WOW, did Jets overpay! Wow!

  23. Jason Harshman says:
    March 14, 2023 at 4:40 pm
    Jets depth chart comprised of only Wilson, Moore and Mims before this signing. Jets depth chart improved. Lazard had 788 yards/6td in 2022. Lazard had 1301 yards/14td the last two years combined. Moore and Mims the last three years combined for 1293 yards/6td. So an upgrade over those two and familiar weapon for Rodgers…IF he actually is traded. Lazard in 2022 had 6td…Jets entire depth chart had 5td even when you include Wilson
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    Not true, Corey Davis is still under contract.

  24. I’ll never forget Lazard standing near the 3 Miami Dolphins he just took out and he’s counting 1,.. 2,.. 3. And then gets fined for taunting ?? Overturned after review.
    I hope he does well. Good personality guy.

  25. seems like a lot for a good Wide Receiver # 3, maybe an “ok” # 2, but his connection with Rodgers will be very beneficial.

  29. Joe Douglas is drunk. Corey Davis at 14 mil, Moore a bust, and still no QB.

    If they sign Cobb, I will laugh myself into high heaven!

  30. Jason Harshman says:
    March 14, 2023 at 4:40 pm
    Jets depth chart comprised of only Wilson, Moore and Mims before this signing. Jets depth chart improved. Lazard had 788 yards/6td in 2022. Lazard had 1301 yards/14td the last two years combined. Moore and Mims the last three years combined for 1293 yards/6td. So an upgrade over those two and familiar weapon for Rodgers…IF he actually is traded. Lazard in 2022 had 6td…Jets entire depth chart had 5td even when you include Wilson.

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    Stop with the logic most on here don’t get it, want it or need it. Well said.

  32. The Jets brass are planting the seed for a dysfunctional team. When Rogers and his band of merrymen enter that locker room it will become a divided locker room. It will be the entitled Rogers guys on one side and the rest of the team on the other side.

  33. Jets just paid more money than Jakobi Meyers got with better numbers and playing with worse QBs.

    This is crazy. The Jets are over a barrel.

  34. Allen was rescued from obscurity when the Packers claimed him off a practice squad and gave him opportunity.

  35. If they sign Cobb, I will laugh myself into high heaven!
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    Keep laughing. The Jets are already better than the Patriots. With Rogers coming in, the Patriots are looking at last place. Mac Jones? LOL!!!

  37. williamshatnerstoupee says:
    March 14, 2023 at 5:22 pm
    Keep laughing. The Jets are already better than the Patriots.

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    Really? Pats beat them twice last season.

  38. Good, hard-nose player, but really is a 3 or 4 receiver..Like MVS last year, Packers can’t spend $11 million dollars on a utility player, when they can get a legit wide receiver. Good for Allen though.

  39. Good complementary piece to any offense.
    Does a lot of the undervalued dirty work, tenacious downfield blocker and a great locker room guy.
    But still just a guy who needs to be schemed open.
    The draft is full of guys.
    This contract is clearly an overpayment, mostly due to the shallow free agent pool this year.
    Good for Allen though, obviously played his hand correctly.

  41. williamshatnerstoupee says:
    March 14, 2023 at 5:22 pm
    If they sign Cobb, I will laugh myself into high heaven!
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    Keep laughing. The Jets are already better than the Patriots. With Rogers coming in, the Patriots are looking at last place. Mac Jones? LOL!!!

    71Rate This

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    No, they’re not as we saw last year 2x when NE had an awful OC in there.

    Of course everyone is laughing. Games aren’t won on pieces of paper in March like you and Woody Johnson think they are.

    Everyone planet earth knows this will blow up beautifully except for Woody, Joe Douglas, homer Jets fans, and apparently, yourself.

  43. Matches the Davis contract, both are similar receivers statistically with one key difference, Lazard is good in the red zone and a much better target on 3rd down. He is a way better blocker. If it’s same pay, lazard is an upgrade. Cut Davis

  44. Dear Jets fans,

    Your circus is just beginning.

    Sincerely,

    Packers fan since 1961

  46. Jets are about to sell their souls for 1-2 years of Rodgers. As a 45 year fan of the Jets, totally worth it.

  47. Let’s hope none of these developments aid in bringing that clown Fireman Ed out of retirement.

  48. I am truly enjoying the spectacle of Packers fan watching their team get dismantled. Hilarity!

  49. Really? Pats beat them twice last season.
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    That was last season.

  50. I have no idea how this is possible in 2023. The NYJ’s have 7 mil in cap space. They need 5 mil to sign rookies and 5 mil to operate in season. Are all these guys being paid next year when they have the cap space? Or can they “borrow” cap space from future years? That is the only way they can absorb $150 mil in contracts (if they sign all of Rodgers wish list players). Again, no problem in future years, but what about 2023? The Cap is truly crap.

    I have to agree that we are looking at more of a battle to stay out of the AFC East cellar than we are battling for first place and the playoffs, IF….Rodgers plays well. We also just lost Jakobi Meyers. The Pats could have been the team to sign Rodgers, trade Mac for a 2nd rounder, and sign OBJ along with Rodgers buddies. It would have been a cruel move on the Jets and possibly put the Patriots back in Prime time. They had the draft capital and the cap space. Either BB feels Rodgers is at the end of his career, O’Brien did not want to work with Rodgers, or Kraft nixed the possibility. Otherwise, given BB’s need for 10-11 wins per year for three straight seasons to set the NFL wins records, and Krafts desire to get back to Prime Time before he is gone, and how stacked the other AFC East teams would be, I would have thought this was on the table.

    I’m not knocking Jones, but he is in fact, still unproven. The Pats blew that in 2022. Not Mac’s fault. But the reality is we still do not know if he is the guy or not. We think he can be, but we will not know until after 2023.

  51. My sources tell me Jets are negotiating with Jordy Nelson on a 2 yr $25M deal. blahahaa

  53. It would be Hilarious if after all these additions that Rodgers backs out of the deal or Packers trade him to some other team

  54. Johnson and Johnson (i.e., Woody Johnson) makes one of the Covid vaccines. Rodgers is staunchly anti-Vax and pro au naturel. Any chance he’s trolling ol’ Woody right now making him sign all of his scrub friends only to retire once that’s all done? That would be so Jets I expect it to happen.

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