The Jets are maintaining Sauce on the facet … for now.
First-round draft choose Sauce Gardner has been alternating with Bryce Corridor at cornerback at the beginning of camp. Regardless of being the No. 4-overall choose, Gardner just isn't being handed the beginning job. It absolutely is only a matter of time earlier than he turns into the starter, however head coach Robert Saleh stated they’ll know when he’s prepared.
“I believe it’s a kind of issues the place you’ll know when you realize,” Saleh stated. “Him and Bryce are alternating days by way of getting the reps and going towards completely different receivers and getting these alternatives. Each are doing a very nice job competing and serving to each other out. He’s doing a superb job. We’ll know after we know.”
The Jets haven't placed on pads but. Their first padded observe will probably be Monday. It appears Saleh desires to see Gardner make some tackles earlier than giving him the beginning job.
“You continue to wish to see him in pads,” Saleh stated. “You continue to wish to see how he holds up when a again hits the nook. First sport towards Baltimore they’re not going to be shy on the lookout for a nook and phone. There’s a whole lot of issues that we’ve obtained to see which are completely different than the school sport. It’s extra unfold out, throw the ball all over. It is a lot extra condensed the place offenses search corners within the run sport. There’s a whole lot of issues that we’ve obtained to see earlier than we are able to declare something.”
The Jets formally signed LB Kwon Alexander on Friday. Saleh was requested about what Alexander can add for the group.
“Clearly, he’s one other veteran so as to add to that linebacker group,” Saleh stated. “He’s a ball of power, nice management, can play each Will and Sam. I like him. Clearly, now we have the historical past in San Francisco. He’s a particular younger man.”
The Jets’ plan was to place Alexander by a exercise on Friday and once more on Saturday earlier than deciding when he might begin working towards, possible subsequent week.
“We’ll see the place he’s at. He wasn’t for OTAs,” Saleh stated. “No expectations besides to do what he all the time does, which is deliver a whole lot of juice, a whole lot of power. He performs his absolute tail off.”
The Jets launched LB Javin White to clear a roster spot for Alexander.
Saleh had reward for RT Mekhi Becton after Friday’s observe. Becton struggled at instances on Thursday with the warmth, however regarded good on Friday.
“In the present day was a very good day for him,” Saleh stated. “We simply had a small discuss as we have been strolling off. It’s not getting simpler, he’s simply getting stronger. In the present day, I believed, was a very good day. He’s obtained to proceed to pressure himself and push himself to the brink of exhaustion and belief that that [dis]consolation goes to be what helps him get higher, and I believed he had a superb day at present.”
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