The New York Jets are trading fourth-year broad receiver Denzel Mims to the Detroit Lions, according to several reports.
Per NFL Network, Mims will head to Detroit along with a seventh-round choice in 2025 while a 2025 conditional sixth-round choice heads back to the Meadowlands.
Mims will get a fresh start that he’s apparently been lookingfor for some time — the 2020 second-round choice (59th total) had openly askedfor a trade priorto the 2022 season, pointingout frustration with his function in the offense. In 3 years with the Jets, the Baylor item captured simply 42 passes for 676 backyards and didn’t record a goal. He captured simply 11 balls in 2022 after transporting in a simple 8 in 2021.
The Jets, who likewise traded 2021 second-round wideout Elijah Moore earlier this offseason, were supposedly going to cut Mims if a trade had stoppedworking to emerge. Expectations are high this season for Gang Green, owners of the NFL’s longest playoff dryspell, following the acquisition of future Hall of Fame QB Aaron Rodgers. The longtime Packers signal-caller’s top target figures to be 2022 offensive novice of the year Garrett Wilson, and the Jets likewise brought in a coupleof of Rodgers’ preferred targets from his time in Green Bay in Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb.
Expectations are likewise high in Detroit. The Lions are thoughtabout the wagering favorites to wi