The jets hope that the signing of the quarter-arre Justin Fields for an agreement of one year during the offseason will give them a chance to participate in AFC East. On Monday, during the annual meeting of the NFL League in West Palm Beach, Florida, the owner Woody Johnson made a comment on the fields that raised the eyebrows and prompted an analyst on television to question his statement.
Johnson said that when the team had the overall choice n ° 2 in the 2021 draft, Fields was on its short list of players to select.
“I think Justin Fields will be a total winner for us,” said Johnson to journalists. “He’s going to be the starter, as you discovered. I was impressed by him since his college days. It was him or Trevor Lawrence.”
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Lawrence was taken n ° 1 in total by the Jacksonville jaguars and the jets bypassed the fields and selected Zach Wilson with this choice came out of nowhere, the Chicago Bears taking fields with the 11th choice in total.
In the episode of Wednesday of “Breakfast Ball” of FS1, the analyst Craig Carton criticized Johnson, saying that Fields was never seriously considered with choice n ° 2, especially after the jets selected Wilson.
“Not only did we choose the second year of the year – oh yes, we won a match in the week 17 to steal the n ° 1 choice – but what is interesting is that they were in the same project. I will give you this. We have written a quarter-Arrière, created you. Now, I think he may have been in England when it happened and his brother, Chris Johnson, Drafted Zach Wilson, but sheltered, he was doing Trevor Lawrence or Justin Ficads.
Wilson had a hard time in three seasons with the jets, starting 33 games and finishing only 57% of his passes while launching 23 affected and 25 interceptions before being exchanged at the Broncos de Denver in 2024. Fields spent last season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, completing 65.8% of his passes for 1,106 yards, games. He started six of them before being replaced by Russell Wilson.
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