Jets Should Move Beaulieu to LTIR for Trade Deadline Wiggle Room
- Moving Beaulieu to Long-Term Injured Reserve Opens Up Trade Possibilities.
- As The Athletic’s Murat Ates notes below, moving Beaulieu’s contract to the LTIR would give the Jets an additional $1.25 million in cap relief?
- Any trade they would make would be to bolster their back end for the final 18 games of the regular season and a potential playoff run.
- With Beaulieu on the LTIR, the Jets could take on all three players’ full salaries without moving any money out, which they couldn’t do before.
- While it’s no guarantee the Jets will end up making a trade — or that they won’t end up moving money out with players they send their trade partner in return — the potential for cap relief would make it easier to get something done
- These two developments make the Jets a team to watch in the coming days, and make GM Kevin Cheveldayoff’s life a little more interesting as he ponders which of the three players — or someone else “off the board” — would best complement his team’s contingency of defensemen.
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