George Fant has been battling a left knee harm all season, however it knocked him out of the sport on Sunday in opposition to the Bengals.
The knee harm saved Fant from training Wednesday and restricted him on Thursday and Friday, however he determined to attempt to play by way of it. He ended up having a tricky day in opposition to Bengals move rusher Trey Hendrickson and left the sport within the third quarter, after permitting Hendrickson a strip-sack.
“He’s participant. It’s powerful going in opposition to anyone proper now,” Fant informed The Publish. “Proper now, I’m simply working my butt off attempting to get again wholesome, again to one hundred pc.”
When requested if he thought he wanted to take per week off, Fant mentioned, “I don’t know.”
The Jets already are hurting at sort out and having a hurting Fant — or no Fant in any respect — is one other blow to the shaky offensive line. The Jets misplaced Mekhi Becton to a knee harm in August after which Duane Brown, signed as Becton’s alternative, injured his shoulder earlier than Week 1 and is on injured reserve till not less than Week 5.
The Jets tackles late in Sunday’s 27-12 loss to the Bengals had been Conor McDermott and rookie Max Mitchell. The Jets struggled to guard quarterback Joe Flacco, permitting 9 quarterback hits and 4 sacks.
“Actually, we made some performs however they made some performs, too,” Fant mentioned. “They simply have some issues of their scheme that they did to beat blocks, and so they made a pair extra performs, and that was just about the sport.”
One shiny spot for the Jets on Sunday was the play of rookie CB Sauce Gardner. The No. 4 total choose held his personal in opposition to Bengals star Ja’Marr Chase and broke up two passes. Gardner was not completely protecting Chase, however the two gamers confronted off many occasions within the sport.
“I used to be simply enthusiastic about going in opposition to Ja’Marr Chase the entire time,” Gardner mentioned. “All people says he’s one of the best; that’s what I used to be prepared for. He didn’t have any catches, so I really feel like I did what I needed to do. But it surely’s not about me; it’s concerning the crew, so now we have to have the ability to do what now we have to do as a collective crew. We have now to have the ability to talk and execute on protection.”
LB Quincy Williams suffered a left ankle harm and it regarded dangerous. Williams was carted off with an air forged on his left leg after making a sort out within the third quarter. Jets coach Robert Saleh mentioned Williams could be evaluated on Monday.
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