FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Demario Davis apparently was so eager to get out of Cleveland and back to the New York Jets that he took a significant pay cut to facilitate the June 1 trade that returned him to his original team.
Davis, due to make a non-guaranteed $3.7 million in the final year of his contract, will now make $1 million in 2017, a source told ESPN NFL Insider Field Yates. That includes a $100,000 signing bonus and a $900,000 base salary. He also can earn $1.225 million in incentives. He re-worked his deal at the time of the trade, per Yates.