The Wide Receiver Free Agent Class

Edition #529

Good morning! ☕

All is quiet in the Jets universe, which is a bad thing for all those hoping they’d make a move to replace Nathaniel Hackett. C.J. Mosley got into some beef with the Dolphins long snapper on Twitter, Breece Hall calmed the flames following Coach Saleh’s “criticism” and nobody wants to actually talk about the team’s struggles as we’ve been over it a number of times, and if the Jets don’t change anything why should we expect anything to change on the field.

🟢 There was an interesting note yesterday from Peter King on Aaron Rodgers's motivation to return: “But Rodgers also has pangs about how much the Jets bent their organization, team and locker room to his desires when the Packers traded him to New York. He believes in the ethos of the locker room and knows other players play with pain and sometimes risk further injury by playing. If he can be sure he is reasonably recovered, without a significant risk of re-tearing the Achilles, I think he’d strongly consider playing, whatever the Jets’ record is. I think he may feel a personal need to come back to a team that remade itself for him and is struggling incredibly with terrible quarterback play since he was lost in the first game of the season.”

⚪ I did largely scoot over the Miami game, as I had no desire to rewatch that catastrophe. But one silver lining was the play of rookie Joe Tippmann, who continues to impress despite the revolving door at RG. Tippmann allowed 0 sacks and 0 pressures on 48 pass-blocking snaps. He was the only offensive lineman on the team to allow nothing in pass protection.

🟢 Chris Glaser was added back to the practice squad, he had been released. It’s always a case of musical chairs when it comes to the bottom of the roster. Glaser started one game this season which was the week 11 game against Buffalo. He allowed 1 sack and 2 pressures but came out with a 70+ grade in the run game. We’ve seen much worse than Chris Glaser to be fair to him.

⚪ “Just seeing Aaron this morning and actually seeing Aaron in there doing treatment," left guard Laken Tomlinson said, "a guy who’s in there doing everything he can treatment-wise, and for me, coming in after game that we had and seeing him, how hard he’s been working, that was motivation, That’s motivation for me.”

Allen Lazard has been one of the most disappointing free-agent signings in recent memory. He may not be Trumaine Johnson, but he’s making headlines for all the wrong reasons, being a healthy scratch in last week’s defeat to Miami.

Lazard is coming back next year because the cap hit makes cutting him prohibitive. But the Jets will almost certainly look to upgrade the position, and fortunately for them, the free-agent receiver class looks pretty good.