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.
As the tush push debate continues to toggle from simmer to boil, there’s an important point to remember regarding the expected 2026 attack on the play.
Last night’s first touchdown from Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson was fueled by a multi-teammate shove into the end zone. If the rule change that came within two votes of passing had cleared the 75-percent minimum, that play would have violated the revised standard.
It didn’t start that way. The initial proposal from the Packers (as prompted by the league office) focuses solely on the tush push formation. When it failed to get sufficient traction during the March ownership meeting, the forces opposed to the tush push regrouped, reevaluated, and ultimately rewrote the proposed rule.
By May, the focus was far more general. The anti-tush push crowd wanted to rewind the rulebook to 2005. No pushing of the ball carrier, anywhere on the field.
If adopted, that would make the shoving of a player into the end zone a violation.
Of course, it’s not enough for a play to violate the rules as written. The officials still have to call it. And the officials habitually don’t call a foul for the pulling of a runner, even though it remained a prohibited tactic even after pushing was permitted. Earlier this year, a blatant pull of 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey during a Sunday night game against the Falcons was not called.
The point for now is this. If the tush push goes, other things will go to, at least in theory. And those consequences will include the move that propelled Henderson to paydirt on Thursday night for the Patriots.
The Jets’ offense started Thursday night’s game with a brilliant 14-play, 72-yard drive that ended with a Justin Fields five-yard touchdown run. On that first drive, Fields ran the ball five times and threw the ball twice, and the Jets’ offense was humming.
So did the Jets keep having Fields run the rest of the game? No.
The Jets’ remaining three drives of the first half were all three-and-outs, and Fields didn’t have a single rushing attempt for the rest of the half. All three of those three-and-out drives ended with Fields throwing the ball on third down and failing to get the first down. But Jets head coach Aaron Glenn defended the play calling after the game, saying Fields is not a running back and can’t be treated like one.
“We don’t want to make a habit of our quarterbacks continuing to run because we can put them in harm’s way,” Glenn said. “I felt like if we get a fast start we’ll be in a good position, and Justin ran the ball quite a bit. The thing is, we can’t put Justin in a situation where he’s a running back, and I think we all know that, because we’re putting him in harm’s way.”
After that great opening drive on which Fields ran the ball five times and threw the ball twice, he ran the ball six times and threw the ball 24 times the rest of the game. Glenn said he would have liked to see his receivers do a better job catching Fields’ passes.
“We’ve got to have some guys make some plays for him too,” Glenn said.
But the reality is that whether you blame Fields or the receivers for the struggles of the passing game, the Jets’ offense was moving better when Fields was running: Fields ran 11 times for 67 yards, an average of 6.1 yards per run. Fields also passed the ball 26 times for 116 yards, and was sacked twice for 11 yards, a net of 105 yards on 28 dropbacks, or 3.8 yards per attempted pass.
The Jets were better with Fields running more than passing, but Glenn made clear that Fields running more than passing is not part of the Jets’ future plans.
