New York Jets All-Pro center Nick Mangold would like a new contract before the start of the 2010 regular season, Manish Mehta of the Newark Star-Ledger reports.

"I’d love to get something done before the season," said Mangold. "It’s a security thing."

Mangold is entering the final year of his five-year rookie contract, and the two-time Pro Bowle from Ohio State did enough in the first four years of the deal to trigger $2.605 million dollars in base salary escalation for the 2010 season, in which Mangold will earn $3.3 million dollars. That base salary increase could help the Jets and Mangold's agent, Brad Leshnock of BTI Advisors, navigate around the 30% rule governing contract extensions during the uncapped year.

Mangold plans to attend the team's Organized Team Activity, which are voluntary, but acknowledged to Mehta that he was affected by the injury to former Jets unning back Leon Washington last season, and understands the business angle to it.

"I’m not a bad guy," Mangold told Mehta. "I don’t believe that I am. I like to believe that I do keep a good guy persona. That’s how I was raised and how I do things. But in the end, it’s still a business. You see that when people get released or brought in...So I can’t be foolish when the time comes for whatever needs to be done business-wise.

"It’s something that I think gets a lot of times overlooked when people are made out to be bad guys for whatever reason. For as much as we hear it’s a business on other side, it’s still a business on our side."