{"id":227502,"date":"2025-07-22T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:46:10","slug":"jets-sign-cb-sauce-gardner-to-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/227502\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign CB Sauce Gardner to Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets made it official Tuesday when CB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/sauce-gardner\/\" title=\"Sauce Gardner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sauce Gardner<\/a> signed his multi-year contract extension at the team&#8217;s Atlantic Health Training Center.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, 24, is a two-time first-team All-Pro who has amassed 40 pass defenses and 181 tackles in three NFL seasons. He became the first cornerback in NFL history to receive first-team All-Pro honors in each of his first two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to agree on a contract extension with Sauce that will keep him with the Jets for the foreseeable future,&#8221; said Jets general manager Darren Mougey. &#8220;On top of being an All-Pro cornerback, he is an exceptional teammate and a tremendous competitor who is all about winning. I want to acknowledge ownership \u2013 this would not be possible without their full support. As well, Sauce&#8217;s agent, AJ Vaynerchuk of VaynerSports, and Nick Sabella, from our Football Administration department for all the hard work they put in to get this deal done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After starting 15 games and totaling 49 tackles, 9 PDs and 1 interception in 2024, Gardner participated in voluntary workouts this spring and expressed his desire to be a Jet for the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to show my teammates, show the coaches, how much I&#8217;m bought into this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want to win. I want to change the organization. I want to be a part of changing the organization. We got a new regime, AG (Head Coach Aaron Glenn), his whole coaching staff that he brought in, (General Manager Darren) Mougey, just great guys. I feel like Mr. Johnson did a great job of getting those type of guys to be here, and I feel like they&#8217;re doing a great job and changing the culture, for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets made it official Tuesday when CB Sauce Gardner signed his multi-year contract extension at the team&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6,8522,7536,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-227502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-randy-lange","18":"tag-sauce-gardner","19":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114897904219638160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}