Should Joe Burrow Play for the Jets or Giants in 2026?
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The Most Desirable Quarterback in New York
Forget about Fernando Mendoza or Dante Moore. Even the promising potential of Jaxson Dart can be pushed aside. If the Jets and Giants are both truly focused on abruptly turning around their sad, sickly fortunes of late then there is really just one guy for the job, the quarterback who was out there throwing for 305 yards and a pair of touchdowns on Sunday while New York’s two teams were busy futzing around with the Raiders and Patriots. Joe Burrow needs to be in New York next season. Both teams should spend the next few months pouring whatever assets and powers or persuasion they have into getting that done. Given Burrow’s comments over the past month which expressed frustration with his time in Cincinnati, the quarterback could probably use a change of address.
The Jets: A Strong Contender
The Jets have much more of a need for him and much more draft capital to get something done. There was a report over the weekend that the Bengals would probably need a “Ricky Williams-type” level of compensation to move Burrow, a reference to the monster 1999 deal that the New Orleans made with Washington to draft the running back. With the picks that the Jets banked from their trades of Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner this season they are one of the few teams in the league that could muster such a remittance. Burrow would give the Jets a legitimate playmaker that would put them on equal footing with the Bills and Patriots immediately rather than drafting a quarterback and hoping to get there in a few years.
The Giants: A Potential Contender
As for the Giants, if the reports that they are open to evaluating quarterback options this offseason are true and not just smokescreens to drive up the price of whatever high draft pick they eventually get, then nothing – not even Dart – should stand between them and Burrow. Including him in a package for Burrow wouldn’t be giving up on him, it would be appreciating his value and using it to make the Giants better. The Giants can’t afford to be runners-up in the quarterback arms race a third offseason in a row.
Final Thoughts on the Burrow Situation
The chances of either dream scenario for the Giants or Jets happening are admittedly slim and Burrow does have a no-trade clause in his contract so the final say might be up to him and not the teams. But if there is even a sliver of a chance for them to land him, they owe it to themselves and their fans to do all they can to make it happen. Burrow will make whichever team he plays for in 2026 a contender. That’s more than can be said about nearly every other option either of New York’s two sorry teams has regarding their quarterback statuses this offseason.
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