Report: Jets call Cowboys with trade offer for wide receiver Denzel Mims

The New York Jets have reportedly placed a call to the Dallas Cowboys in regard to fourth-year wide receiver Denzel Mims. As the Jets kickoff training camp, the organization is reportedly planning to part ways with Mims but ideally, they’d like to trade him if possible.

According to Cowboys reporter Mike Fisher, the team fielded a call with an offer to trade a conditional seventh-round selection for the speedy Texas native. The Jets would have owed him $1.35 million for the 2023 season if they didn’t choose to trade or release him.

It is unclear whether Dallas has interest in adding Mims to the roster with training camp still one week away. The only move the Cowboys made in the receivers’ room in free agency was adding Texans veteran Brandin Cooks.

Jets plan to release former second-round selection

New York selected Mims with the No. 59 overall pick in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. Already loaded with talent at the position the Jets have good reason to move on from the fourth-year wideout. In his first three seasons, he played in 30 games total.

His most productive season was as a rookie in 2020. He had 23 catches for 357 yards. Those numbers went down to eight catches and 133 yards, and 11 catches for 186 yards over the next two seasons. Mims has yet to record a touchdown since entering the league.

The former Baylor Bears standout initially signed a four-year deal worth $5.43 million in 2020.

If Mims does indeed hit the free agency market, he’ll be free to sign with a new team at any point. He’s a Texas native who played his high school football for Daingerfield before heading to Baylor. The 6-foot-3, 207-pound receiver turns 26 this season.

Sauce Gardner recalls fight with Mims

Discussing his rookie season on the Pivot, Jets star cornerback Sauce Gardner revealed that he did get into one memorable scuffle last year – with Mims.

“We’d be talking, then he did something,” Gardner said. “He did something that was cheap to one of my teammates. and I just ran onto the field.”

It all sounds very minor. Gardner promised he could stay chill during the filming for Hard Knocks.

“Y’all are going to like me,” he promised. “I’ll be calm.. I’ll talk on the field, I’ll talk a little trash.”

But he said tempers do escalate in preseason camp. “You’ve been to training camp for a little minute, waking up, seeing the same person extra early in the morning,” he said. “You develop this little anger, like ‘yo’ bro, why am I looking at you again?’ It feels like we, we just here. I close my eyes and it’s day two of training camp. Then it gets to day 10 or something. It just gets crazy.”

On3’s Suzanne Halliburton contributed to this report.