Uncertainty around the future of New York Jets running back Breece Hall continues to come into focus as the organization gets going, and the latest reporting suggests the situation may ultimately come down to cost and value at running back, as many teams don’t love paying backs.
Hall, now approaching free agency, is coming off a 2025 campaign that showed flashes of the player he was as a rookie. However, with the Jets needing so much more on both sides of the football, if he were to get paid handsomely, it might be better to let him walk.
Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic named him the Jets' top free agent and had some intriguing thoughts on the situation.
“Hall had his best season since his rookie year in 2025, running with more explosiveness and power and attacking contact more than he had in the past, though there were some weeks when he disappeared,” Rosenblatt wrote.
While he played better, there were also moments when he struggled, and Rosenblatt fairly brought those up.
“From Week 12 through 16, he averaged three yards per carry,” Rosenblatt added.
“He dropped two passes in 2025 and nine in 2024, and he has the second-most fumbles (eight) in the last two years, losing four of them,” Rosenblatt wrote.
Even with those issues, Hall is the best running back on the market and that will likely make him a candidate to get paid well.
“He’s not a superstar, but he’s a solid running back and widely viewed as the top player at his position in this free agency class,” Rosenblatt noted.
“Expect his next contract to land somewhere in the same range as Kyren Williams’ and James Cook’s deals they signed last year, averaging $11-13 million per season,” Rosenblatt wrote. “PFF projects three years and $37 million for Hall.”
For the Jets, this creates a weird situation to consider. I think they should bring him back after not trading him at the deadline, but who really knows what happened then? It feels safe to say that teams were interested in him, but again, we really don’t know what the Jets were offered or if they thought he’d sign an extension in-season.