The Jets are getting again their beginning cornerbacks this week, however they probably will likely be lacking three of their prime 4 safeties.
Starter Chuck Clark is on injured reserve with an ankle sprain.
Fellow starter Tony Adams is out with a hamstring harm.
Backup Ashtyn Davis is out with a concussion.
That leaves Jalen Mills and Isaiah Oliver because the beginning safeties.
Mills began final week instead of Clark in Pittsburgh after signing to the workforce’s follow squad Sept. 24.
The workforce signed him to the energetic roster this week.
“We’re lucky that we constructed good depth on this roster, so when these issues occur, we obtained guys that may play,” interim coach Jeff Ulbrich mentioned. “I feel Jalen Mills is a large testomony to the teaching workers, particularly [safeties coach] Marquand Manuel. To get a man prepared in two and a half weeks, three weeks, and I imply he began and performed each single snap. Not simply performed, however performed at a excessive stage, in my view. What a testomony to him.”
Oliver began the previous two video games at nickel nook. He moved to security in Pittsburgh after Adams was injured within the second quarter.
Each Jets starter within the secondary missed time in opposition to the Steelers. Cornerbacks D.J. Reed and Michael Carter didn’t play in any respect.
Adams left within the second quarter. Even Sauce Gardner missed a sequence.
“To inform you the reality, final week was the primary time I had ever been via something like that in my life,” Ulbrich mentioned. “Just about each starter and even with Sauce lacking a sequence there, each man was down. Now saying that, we’re very lucky that we have now some backups that got here in, did an excellent job, and held their very own.”
TE Kenny Yeboah (stomach) has been downgraded to out.
LB Quincy Williams was fined $45,020 pointless roughness (use of the helmet), whereas DT Leonard Taylor was fined $4,435 for roughing the passer in Sunday’s 37-15 loss to the Steelers.
