The Jets overhauled their defensive line by acquiring Harrison Phillips and Jowon Briggs after a lackluster preseason showing. New York traded a 2026 sixth-round pick and a 2027 seventh-round pick to Minnesota for Phillips, who started 51 games in Minnesota and totaled 60 run stops since 2023. Phillips posted 56 combined tackles, two sacks, two tackles for loss, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery last season. Minnesota will pay half of his $7.4 million 2025 salary, making the Jets’ 2025 cost roughly $3.7 million. Briggs, a 2024 seventh-round pick, played six games with 13 combined tackles and will provide depth behind injured Byron Cowart and others.
acquisitions of Harrison Phillips and Jowon Briggs. Phillips immediately becomes a starting option alongside star defensive tackle Quinnen Williams. Gang Green picked him up from the Minnesota Vikings along with a 2027 seventh-round draft pick for a 2026 sixth-rounder and a 2027 seventh-rounder. The 29-year-old started all 51 games over his three-year stint in Minnesota following four years with the Buffalo Bills. He has been plenty consistent, accounting for 60 run stops since the start of the 2023 campaign.
He is in the first year of a two-year, $15 million contract extension that he signed with Minnesota in September, and the Vikings have agreed to pay half of the $7.4 million he is owed in 2025. That means the Jets are picking up a potential game-changing defensive tackle for just $3.7 million this year. Phillips' acquisition came shortly after the Jets picked Briggs up from the Cleveland Browns.
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