The Jets are adding a veteran defender.
Per Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, defensive tackle Khalen Saunders is expected to sign with New York after he was released by Jacksonville last week.
Saunders, 29, was traded from New Orleans to Jacksonville in August but appeared in just two games for the club. He recorded three total tackles in his 25 defensive snaps.
A Chiefs third-round pick in 2019, Saunders has appeared in 70 games with 32 starts in his seven seasons for Kansas City, New Orleans, and Jacksonville. He’s totaled 6.5 career sacks with seven tackles for loss and 17 quarterback hits.
The Jets are set to make a quarterback change.
According to multiple reports, they plan to start Tyrod Taylor at quarterback against the Ravens in Week 12. Justin Fields will go to the bench as a result of the move.
Head coach Aaron Glenn kept the door open for a quarterback change after last Thursday’s loss to the Patriots when he said the team is “evaluating everything” about a passing offense that has been lackluster all season. It appeared that the team was moving toward making a change ahead of their Week 8 win over the Bengals, but Taylor was ruled out during the week with a knee injury and the team won their first game of the season with Fields at the helm.
They won again against the Browns in Week 10, but Fields only had 54 passing yards in that game and then posted 116 yards on 26 attempts while also losing a fumble against the Patriots.
Taylor started one game earlier this season when Fields was out with a concussion and he replaced Fields in the second half of their Week 7 loss to the Panthers.
Jets cornerback Kris Boyd is reportedly in critical condition after he was shot early this morning.
Boyd was shot in Midtown Manhattan, on West 38th Street near Seventh Avenue around 2 a.m., according to the New York Post.
No arrests have been made and the shooting is still being investigated.
The 29-year-old Boyd is in his first year with the Jets, having signed with them in free agency in March. He has spent the entire season on injured reserve. He was originally a 2019 seventh-round pick of the Vikings out of Texas and has also spent time with the Cardinals and Texans.
The Jets are off this weekend after playing on Thursday night.
Davante Adams has 42 catches this year. More than 20 percent of them have resulted in touchdowns.
He has nine, in nine games. With one more, he’ll become the third member of one very specific club.
Via NBC Sports research, a tenth touchdown catch with the Rams will make Adams only the third player in NFL history to have a 10-or-more receiving touchdowns in a given season with three different teams.
Adams has done it with the Packers and Raiders. Brandon Marshall did it with the Jets, Bears, and Broncos. Terrell Owens did it with the Cowboys, Eagles, and 49ers.
Whether Adams will even have a chance to get to 10 on Sunday against the Seahawks remains to be seen. He’s questionable for the game with an oblique injury.
Adams could have been working on his fourth team with double-digit touchdowns. In only 11 games with the Jets last season, he had seven receiving touchdowns.
In all, Adams has six seasons with 10 or more touchdown catches — including a league-leading 18 in 2020.
Adams is also eighth on the all-time receiving touchdown list with 112. He’s four away from catching Antonio Gates, and nine away from matching Larry Fitzgerald.
Jets head coach Aaron Glenn said on Thursday night that he doesn’t “want to make a habit of our quarterbacks continuing to run because we can put them in harm’s way,” but the team hasn’t been as successful when Justin Fields throws the ball.
Fields was 15-of-26 for 116 yards and a touchdown in Thursday’s 27-14 loss to the Patriots and that came a week after he completed six passes for 54 yards in a win over the Browns. On Friday, Glenn said in a press conference that “we gotta get a lot better in the passing game” across the board while acknowledging that “there were some open guys that [Fields] missed” over the course of the night.
Glenn said he did not consider making a quarterback change against New England, but did not rule one out was asked if he would consider making a move to Tyrod Taylor for Week 12.
“I’m evaluating everything,” Glenn said. “I’m evaluating myself, the players, schematics, coaches. I’m evaluating everything. I don’t want to just place everything on that one situation. I’m looking at everything because, as a head coach, that’s my job to make sure I put this team in the best position to go win games”
Glenn has resisted making any proclamations about the starting quarterback for the last few games, so we’ll have to see if he changes course once the team is back to work next week.
