"With the NFL's collective bargaining agreement set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, the Jets extended qualifying offers to nine players with four or five years of service.

The restricted free-agent tenders may be moot under the rules of the new CBA, but teams have been wise to tender players in case they are ruled RFAs under the new agreement.

Santonio Holmes and Antonio Cromartie were tendered at the first- and third-round level - the highest possible - which means that any team that signs them to an offer sheet would forfeit those two draft choices."