Despite impending returns from Justin Fields and/or Tyrod Taylor, Jets head coach Aaron Glenn announced on Wednesday that undrafted rookie quarterback Brady Cook will make his second straight start in Week 16.
Fields began the season as the starter and seemed to be headed for the bench midway through the season. An injury to Taylor kept Fields in the lineup for a few more weeks, but Taylor eventually took over in Week 12.
With Fields nursing a knee injury in Week 14, Cook stepped into the backup role. Then, when Taylor went down with a knee injury of his own, Cook finished the game, albeit with a 46.7% completion percentage and two interceptions. With neither of the veterans available in Week 15, Cook made his first career start with Adrian Martinez serving as the backup.
Cook completed 22 of his 33 passes against the Jaguars last Sunday, but they only went for 176 yards (5.3 yards per attempt) and one touchdown. He also threw three interceptions after two in his NFL debut the week before. Overall, Cook has completed just 57.1% of his passes with 5.4 yards per attempt and a 44.3 passer rating.
Regardless, the Jets are sticking with the Missouri product for Week 16. Taylor and Fields were limited participants in practice on Wednesday and Thursday, but even if one is ready to play on Sunday, they will back up Cook.
Martinez was re-signed by the 49ers earlier this week, so the Jets signed former Lions quarterback Hendon Hooker to their practice squad. The 2023 third-round pick will be elevated to the game day roster if neither Fields nor Taylor are available for Sunday’s matchup with the Saints.
DAMN how much worse can it get for the Jets at QB? What a garbage QB room Fields. Taylor. Cook and now Hooker? I actually feel bad for the fans.
It’s a deliberate act of self sabotage by the Jets so that when they bring back Mark Sanchez… all their fans will get excited 🙂
So says a crackpot that doesn’t follow the news.
Horrible franchise lmao
Not as big a car crash as the New York Football Giants.
Or the browns
Hooker was pretty good in college and seemed to be well thought of, wonder how he’d do if someone gave him a shot
If you want to know how silly NFL punditry is, Herndon Hooker was declared “the Lions’ QB of the future” when they took him in the third round.
Never mind that they had a former 1-1 who had been to a Super Bowl on their roster, he was old news. Herndon Hooker is the future.
I knew he was anything but the QB of the future for Detroit. But no one asked for my opinion.
Yeah, the glut of top heavy media circle-jerking that seems to be fundamentally out of touch with everyday people is seemingly getting more noticeable each year. Perhaps it’s all the access to digital analytics and self-perpetuating marketing that’s done it. Players rocket up draft boards (mock ones, at least) after all the games have been played, and that’s without any of the predictors having seen any actual NFL boards. Online sentiment, I suppose.
I’ve wondered more and more lately how accurate today’s polling or estimation of “popular opinion” really is. Political polling the last three national elections shows how inaccurate talking heads or online buzz can be, even in important situations. In unimportant ones…well, I accidentally saw the debut of the new season of Fallout after the amazing Seahawks-Rams game on Thursday night. It’s been touted as critically acclaimed online. The writing was so bad and action was so cringey that I turned off before my ability to distinguish logical sequencing of events was permanently damaged. But, hey, that’s the polling. Nobody asked for my opinion, either-but then again, I can get dangerously close to straying off topic, apparently.
Someone should give Hooker an actual shot to play.
Has any QB scenario ever been worse?
There have been a few, including Cleveland and even the Giants.
Yeah, 92-94 Seahawks. Doesn’t matter pick any of those years. Though 92 was probably the worst.