Report: New York Jets parting ways with WR Denzel Mims
As the New York Jets kickoff training camp, the organization is reportedly planning to part ways with wide receiver Denzel Mims. The Jets plan to release Mims to the free agents market if they can’t find a trading partner for the former Baylor star, according to New York Post reporter Brian Costello.
New York selected Mims with the No. 59 overall pick in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Already loaded with talent at the position the Jets have good reason to move on from the fourth-year wideout. In his first three seasons, he played in 30 games total.
His most productive season was as a rookie in 2020. He had 23 catches for 357 yards. Those numbers went down to eight catches and 133 yards, and 11 catches for 186 yards over the next two seasons. Mims has yet to record a touchdown since entering the league.
The former Baylor Bears standout initially signed a four-year deal worth $5.43 million in 2020. The Jets would have owed him $1.35 million for the 2023 season.
If Mims does indeed hit the free agency market, he’ll be free to sign with a new team at any point. He’s a Texas native who played his high school football for Daingerfield before heading to Baylor. The 6-foot-3, 207-pound receiver turns 26 this season.
Sauce Gardner recalls fight with Mims
Discussing his rookie season on the Pivot, Jets star cornerback Sauce Gardner revealed that he did get into one memorable scuffle last year – with Mims.
“We’d be talking, then he did something,” Gardner said. “He did something that was cheap to one of my teammates. and I just ran onto the field.”
It all sounds very minor. Gardner promised he could stay chill during the filming for Hard Knocks.
“Y’all are going to like me,” he promised. “I’ll be calm.. I’ll talk on the field, I’ll talk a little trash.”
But he said tempers do escalate in preseason camp. “You’ve been to training camp for a little minute, waking up, seeing the same person extra early in the morning,” he said. “You develop this little anger, like ‘yo’ bro, why am I looking at you again?’ It feels like we, we just here. I close my eyes and it’s day two of training camp. Then it gets to day 10 or something. It just gets crazy.”
On3’s Suzanne Halliburton contributed to this report.