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Cisco suffered a torn pectoral in Week 8’s win over the Bengals. Returning from the team’s Week 9 bye, Glenn confirmed that the fifth-year safety will now miss the remainder of the season. Cisco signed a one-year deal with the Jets this offseason and started all eight games he appeared in while totaling 41 tackles, one TFL, and one pass breakup.

Cisco reportedly tore his pectoral muscle in the Jets’ Week 8 win over the Bengals. The 25-year-old signed with the Jets in the offseason and started all eight games, tallying 41 combined tackles on the season. Cisco’s pectoral tear needs repair and he will be sidelined for some period of time, leaving the Jets to turn to Isaiah Oliver and Tony Adams for help at the safety spot.

The deal marks Cisco’s first season away from the Jaguars, who drafted him in the third round in 2021. The 24-year-old safety has forced incompletions at a 20.0 percent rate or better in 3-of-4 seasons. He can be expected to compete for one of the two starting roles alongside incumbent S Tony Adams.

This courtesy of former Jaguars back Maurice Jones-Drew, who added that Murray will get $12 million in guarantees. Murray has spent the last five years in Houston — he was playing on the team when Bill O’Brien was still the head coach. Entering his age-31 season, this is a strong contract for a player who spent two of the last three years as a reserve. Murray saw more playing time last year as the Texans moved Jalen Pitre to nickelback, and had a playoff pick-six of Justin Herbert. Signing him seems like an admission that the Jags will move on from Andre Cisco.

Talking with reporters about the state of his team, Pederson told reporters, “I feel like the guys are -- they don’t quit. They keep fighting.” Shortly after that, Cisco told reporters, " I feel like it was... a lot of quit... It felt very early in the game, maybe at halftime, that we weren’t playing as one.” Pederson likely has one last shot to turn things around, against the Patriots in Week 7. For fantasy purposes, a potential buy-low window for Jaguars players may currently be underway. An interim head coach could provide fantasy-friendly, schematic upgrades for the rest of the season.

Cisco (6'0/209), a three-year starter at Syracuse, snagged 13 interceptions throughout his career, which is made more impressive by the fact he was only able to play two games in 2020 due to an ACL injury. He was voted as the only true freshman to the Walter Camp All-America team in 2018, then earned himself second-team All-ACC honors in 2019. On film, Cisco is a dream for Cover 3 teams, which bodes well for Jags DC Joe Cullen. He can hold up when playing a deep centerfielder role, showing off some ability to maintain proper spacing and trigger on the QB, even if he can be too overzealous at times. Moreover, Cisco can roll down to play hook/curl assignments as a pseudo-box player because of how quickly he reacts to and drives on plays in front of him. Long speed is a question mark for Cisco, which means playing man coverage from the slot is going to be tough, but he offers enough elsewhere that he can still be a decent starter along the lines of Ha Ha Clinton-Dix.

Cisco (6'1"/209) saw his 2020 season come to a premature end, as he suffered a torn ACL after colliding with a teammate during pregame warmups ahead of the Orange’s September matchup with Georgia Tech. But the standout safety had done enough in the two seasons prior to merit serious interest as an NFL prospect, with some draft analysts believing that Cisco could be a Day 2 selection this spring. One reason why is his explosiveness, in Hodgkinson’s opinion. “Cisco is an impressive athlete,” Hodgkinson wrote. “I don’t think he’s quite an elite athlete overall, but he does have one elite trait in his explosiveness. The Syracuse safety can easily generate immense amounts of momentum out of his breaks, and his closing speed shows up at all ranges.” The knee injury may complicate things when it comes to where Cisco is ultimately picked, but the safety could wind up being a steal if he slips far enough down the board.

Opting out of the 2020 season was a formality -- Cisco is out for the season after suffering a freak lower-body injury in pregame warmups ahead of the Georgia Tech game a few weeks ago when he collided with a teammate. He’s been inactive the past few games. Cisco, a preseason AP first-team All-American, intercepted 13 passes in college, the highest active total in the FBS. In August, The Athletic’s Dane Brugler ranked Cisco (6'0/205) as the No. 2 draft-eligible safety in college football. At the time, Brugler wrote that Cisco was considered a top-60 prospect by multiple NFL scouts. Cisco is a ballhawk in coverage but needs to get better at tackling in space.

Losing Cisco (6'0/209) is a huge blow to the Syracuse defense, as the junior safety is considered by many to be one of the top draft-eligible safeties in college football. After accounting for three tackles and an interception in Syracuse’s September 12 loss to North Carolina, Cisco was responsible for eight tackles in a loss to Pittsburgh the following week. He hasn’t played since, and according to Babers the junior safety is done for the year. The question now is whether or not Cisco has played his final game in a Syracuse uniform, as some scouts believe that he’s a top-60 draft prospect.

Cisco (6'0/205) is ranked second on Brugler’s list of the top draft-eligible safeties in college football, writing that he’s considered to be a top-60 prospect by multiple NFL scouts. While the junior has been excellent when it comes to picking off passes, tallying 12 in his two seasons at Syracuse, that desire to make big plays can come back to bite him at times. “Once his back is turned to the line of scrimmage, he must do a better job of feeling the pass and getting his head turned to locate the ball,” Brugler wrote. “And in the run game, Cisco needs to better calm his feet to break down in space and eliminate the open-field missed tackles.” Cisco will be a key player for the Orange this fall, as Syracuse looks to rebound from a disappointing 2019 campaign.