Building a Breece Hall Contract

The Jets and Breece Hall are currently in talks for a contract extension, and they should do whatever it takes to keep him.

According to Zach Rosenblatt of The Athletic, “talks are ongoing”. Also, the Jets are expected to use the transition tag to keep Hall a Jet, and that would allow the Jets to match any offer sheet for Hall. Finally, Rosenblatt wrote,

The Jets would like to sign Hall to a multi-year deal and league sources believe that number would come in somewhere between the transition and franchise values on a per-year basis.

Since it’s between the transition tag and the franchise tag, I used $12.5 million per year as the AAV for the paper value of the contract.

Let’s dive into the nitty-gritty of the deal I think they should propose.

First off, it’s three years, $37.5 million in paper value.

Second, the cash value for 2026 is the transition tag amount ($11,323,000). He also gets an additional $3.677 million in guarantees in 2027 to bring the total guarantee at signing to $15 million.

With this deal, the Jets would effectively have a $10 million team option for 2027, but, unless something goes completely off the rails in 2026, they’d exercise it, bringing the total guarantees through 2027 up to $25 million.

The final max value of $12.5 million is guaranteed on the fifth day of 2028, when a $2 million roster bonus is due.

Here’s how that would look on paper.

Note: “Per-game roster bonus must be earned” means that it’s protected in the event of being released, but he still has to be on the gameday active roster to earn the money.

Here’s how this contract would stack up in terms of rankings among running backs:

Total Compensation: 4th
AAV: 5th
Total Guarantees: T-5th
Full Guarantees: 11th

This contract would provide good value in comparison to the running backs around the NFL, and it’s actually a win-win for both sides.