Jets projected to sign laughably bad Breece Hall replacement as trade talk won't quit

The New York Jets will likely hand cornerback Sauce Gardner and wide receiver Garrett Wilson huge multi-year extensions that will place them among the top earners at their positions, which has left many wondering if this front office will be willing to give running back Breece Hall a similarly hefty lump sum of cash.

If the answer is negative, a trade might end up materializing out of relatively thin air. Hall would have interest from other teams across the league, which could eventually lead to a 1-2 punch of trading the former Iowa State star and replacing him with someone inferior.

Sports Illustrated's Conor Orr believes that the Jets will eventually decide to trade Hall before the beginning of the season. Not only does Orr believe the Jets will completely upturn their running back room right before the season, but he also thinks that Aaron Glenn will sign a player he knows from his Detroit Lions days to replace him.

Orr mentioned Jamaal Williams, who Glenn has experience with dating back to his time with the Lions, as a player who could fill a hypothetical Hall void, apparently ignoring the Springfield Gorge-level gap in talent between the two.

SI predicts Jets will replace Breece Hall with Jamaal Williams

Williams has run for 32 touchdowns in his NFL career, but 17 of them came in a fairytale 2022 season with the Lions. After leaving to join the New Orleans Saints, Williams was unable to even crack 500 combined yards rushing in two seasons and remains without a job.

If the Jets do trade Hall, which should still be viewed as an unlikely scenario rather than something that is going to happen at some point, look for two second-year players in fourth-round sledgehammer Braelon Allen and sixth-rounder speedster Isaiah Davis to fill the void.

Replacing Hall with Williams would be a significant drop-off in talent, no matter what the situation around him is, but the idea of booting Hall out of town after signing Justin Fields and signaling to everyone with their antennas up that this team will be a run-heavy attack is the epitome of a senseless move.

Williams' ceiling at this point in his career is a third-string running back who could get some touches near the goal line. Hall is a budding star fresh off two straight seasons with over 1,300 yards from scrimmage, which would make a trade at this stage much less attractive.

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