The Jets didn’t get even get to coaching camp earlier than getting some unhealthy harm information.
Security Chuck Clark, whom the workforce acquired in a March commerce with the Ravens, suffered what the Jets worry is a critical knee harm, in accordance with a supply.
Clark is getting a second opinion on the harm, however the Jets are frightened sufficient in regards to the harm that they signed veteran security Adrian Amos on Tuesday.
The Jets despatched a seventh-round choose to Baltimore for Clark, who had been beginning all spring alongside Jordan Whitehead.
A part of the enchantment for the Jets was Clark’s sturdiness. He had performed 1,248 consecutive defensive snaps courting again to 2021.
Now, it seems to be like his 2023 season could possibly be in jeopardy.
With Clark doubtlessly out for some time, the Jets agreed to a cope with Amos, the previous Packers security. Amos, 30, spent the previous 4 seasons in Inexperienced Bay and turns into the most recent of Aaron Rodgers’ former teammates to affix him with the Jets.
Reviews indicated his contract was not an enormous one — a reported one-year deal price as much as $4 million. Amos will now slide into Clark’s position alongside Whitehead within the secondary. Amos has began each sport because the 2018 season when he was with the Bears.
The Jets even have Tony Adams, Ashtyn Davis and rookies Jarrick Bernard-Converse and Trey Dean at security.
“The security group, I’m enthusiastic about it,” defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich stated this spring, “and I don’t suppose you possibly can lose [Tony Adams] and a few of the different guys that we’ve got in that room. It’s going to be a fantastic competitors for these two spots.”
One of many storylines across the Jets because it grew to become clear they have been buying and selling for Rodgers has been the gamers he wished to affix him with the Jets from Inexperienced Bay.
The Jets have signed former Packers huge receivers Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb in addition to offensive deal with Billy Turner this offseason.
Amos was drafted by the Bears within the fifth spherical in 2015, a choose the Bears acquired from the Jets in a commerce for Brandon Marshall.
He spent 4 seasons in Chicago earlier than signing with the Packers in 2019. He has 10 profession interceptions and 48 passes defensed.
