The New York Jets are expected to release Muhammad Wilkerson before March 16, when his $16.75 million base salary for 2018 becomes fully guaranteed. It's a no-brainer, considering the way he underachieved the last two years. Wilkerson will walk away with a fat bank account (he made $37 million over the last two seasons), and the Jets will get nothing.
Unless they can find a creative way to trade him. Is that even possible?
One Twitter follower proposed an NBA-like trade in which the Jets pay a portion of his salary to facilitate a trade: