{"id":784068,"date":"2026-03-01T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:26:27","slug":"tennessee-titans-acquire-jermaine-johnson-salary-cap-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/784068\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans acquire Jermaine Johnson: Salary cap implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 27, 2026, 5:10 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Jets<\/a> made headlines on Thursday when news broke on the <a href=\"http:\/\/titanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/titans\/2026\/02\/26\/tennessee-titans-swap-tvondre-sweat-new-york-jets-jermaine-johnson\/88877710007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade sending edge rusher Jermaine Johnson to the Titans<\/a> in exchange for defensive tackle T\u2019Vondre Sweat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This rare player-for-player trade has been widely regarded as a win for both teams. New <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Titans<\/a> head coach Robert Saleh was able to bolster the Titans\u2019 edge unit and reunite with Johnson, a player he drafted and coveted, and the Jets received a potentially dominant nose tackle that fits their new defensive scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">What makes this trade even more of a winner for both sides is the salary cap ramifications. Although a first glance would show that the Jets opened up a ton of cap space by moving Johnson ($13.4 million), the reality is that Tennessee improved its defense and still leads the league in salary cap space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The deal isn\u2019t official until the start of the new league year, but the Titans <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">should enter free agency<\/a> with $97.1 million in overall cap space and $84.8 million in effective cap space, outpacing both the Jets ($91 million) and the Las Vegas Raiders ($91.5 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The move caps a busy couple of days for the Titans&#8217; front office, which released veteran Lloyd Cushenberry and Xavier Woods on Wednesday as they continue to retool its roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 27, 2026, 5:10 a.m. ET The Tennessee Titans and New York Jets made headlines on Thursday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96009,96010,95882,110243,101580,95896,96747,95888,95906,95975,95883,101547,95889,110116,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-784068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnfltitans","12":"tag-sstsntitans","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagjermaine-johnson","15":"tag-taglloyd-cushenberry","16":"tag-tagnational-sports","17":"tag-tagnew-york-jets","18":"tag-tagnfl","19":"tag-tagoverall-positive","20":"tag-tagrobert-saleh","21":"tag-tagsports-news","22":"tag-tagtvondre-sweat","23":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","24":"tag-tagxavier-woods","25":"tag-tennessee","26":"tag-tennessee-titans","27":"tag-tennesseetitans","28":"tag-titans","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116153207088902293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784068","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=784068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}