{"id":878125,"date":"2026-04-29T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/878125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:18:41","slug":"jets-exercise-will-mcdonald-fifth-year-option-what-that-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/878125\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets exercise Will McDonald fifth-year option, what that means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expected move has come as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Jets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Jets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Jets<\/a> have picked up the fifth-year option on edge rusher Will McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Indications pointed toward the team doing so and it was announced on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>The Jets drafted McDonald with the No. 15 overall pick in 2023. He has 21.5 career sacks and 18.5 in the last two seasons combined.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Exercising the option means McDonald is now under contract in New York for the 2027 season. He was already slated to play in 2026, however, the team has a deadline to pick up the future option which is set during the prior offseason in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker is that the option is costly for teams, It is projected to be $13.8 million for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jets Wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jets Wire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Jets Wire<\/a> will continue to provide updates throughout the 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Jets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jets\/2026\/04\/29\/jets-will-mcdonald-fifth-year-option-nfl\/89862388007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jets exercise Will McDonald fifth-year option, what that means;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jets exercise Will McDonald fifth-year option, what that means&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Jets exercise Will McDonald fifth-year option, what that means<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The expected move has come as the New York Jets have picked up the fifth-year option on edge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,12367,1917,255,2321,2097,6,1261,20113],"class_list":["post-878125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-mcdonald","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl","tag-option","tag-will-mcdonald"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116490082947518645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878125","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=878125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}