By way of two-plus NFL seasons in Jacksonville, operating again James Robinson appeared in 35 video games. His Jaguars gained 4.
A startling new actuality of the 2022 Jets is gamers are being added, not subtracted. Acquired items are becoming a member of the ship and fleeing the one they left sinking.
“Feels fairly good, I’ll say that — 5-2 [record] from 2-5,” Robinson stated after follow Wednesday, his first along with his new workforce after the Jets traded for his or her Breece Corridor substitute this week. “[Winning] makes it very thrilling really.”
The query is: When will he be part of that profitable? Robinson stated the workforce is holding the playbook easy, which at the very least opens the door for a debut Sunday in opposition to the Patriots. However the Jets, who additionally promoted operating again Zonovan Knight to the energetic roster, stated they’ll “take it gradual” with Robinson and need to see how he seems to be.
The 24-year-old tore his Achilles final December in a sport in opposition to the Jets. He returned 9 months later, in a position to open the season because the Jaguars’ beginning operating again.
However his utilization declined because the weeks handed. Throughout the loss Sunday to the Giants, Robinson had no carries as Travis Etienne, their 2021 first-round choose, turned the Jaguars’ workhorse. After the sport, Jacksonville head coach Doug Pederson instructed reporters Robinson was “coping with some lower-body points.” A day later, he was despatched to the Jets for a conditional choose.
“The communication was actually not there. Final Sunday I felt like I ought to have performed however clearly [I didn’t],” stated Robinson, who added he's wholesome. “I believed it was going to be like a one-two punch, that sort of factor. I really feel like they in all probability sort of fell out of that slightly bit. I believe they had been utilizing my ‘not being wholesome’ as an excuse, I assume.”
Robinson handed his Jets bodily. He practiced Wednesday and was not listed on the harm report. He acknowledged “there’s going to be soreness” in his knee, however nothing irregular.
Robinson went undrafted out of Illinois State in 2020. He caught with the Jaguars and have become a exceptional story, dashing for 1,070 yards and 7 touchdowns in his rookie marketing campaign. He was averaging 4.7 yards per carry in 14 video games earlier than the harm value him the top of final season.
This season, he had for 340 yards on 81 carries (4.2 per) earlier than the commerce.
“I’m a tough runner. I attempt to not get too cute with a number of issues,” stated Robinson, who's listed at 5-feet-9 and 219 kilos — a barely stockier model of Michael Carter, who figures to kind a complement with Robinson after Corridor, the star rookie, tore his ACL on Sunday.
“[Robinson] seems to be like Michael in stature, however he’s a one-cut runner, he will get downhill in a rush,” head coach Robert Saleh stated Wednesday. “Actually, actually good complement to what Ty Johnson and Michael convey to the desk, so simply preserve attempting to maintain that versatility in our room.
“Clearly shedding Breece is an enormous blow, however James Robinson is a reasonably good soccer participant, too.”
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