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Getty Images While trades involving quarterbacks Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff and Carson Wentz were agreed upon long before the start of free agency last month, the New York Jets didn’t decided to move Sam Darnold until the first week of April. Why wait when potential options for a trade could...

Getty Images For Joe Douglas, the hardest part of the Jets’ trade of Sam Darnold to Carolina was the phone call the General Manager had to make to the quarterback. “The swallow-hard moment for me was just making that call to Sam,” Douglas told Albert Breer of SI.com. “You know how much work...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams obviously suffered from severe and untreated mental illness. That’s the only way to explain his decision to take five lives and then his own on Wednesday. His father blamed the situation on Adams’ football career. “I can say he’s a good...

Getty Images Philip Adams, a former NFL defensive back who played for the 49ers, Patriots, Seahawks, Raiders, Jets, and Falcons, shot and killed five people on Wednesday and then committed suicide. Via the Associated Press, Adams killed Dr. Robert Lesslie, his wife Barbara, two of their young...

Getty Images Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley was one of the highest-profile players to opt out of the 2020 NFL season, deciding that he didn’t want to play football during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today he took a big step toward getting back on the field safely. Mosley posted on Instagram that he...

Getty Images The Jets are signing interior offensive lineman Corey Levin, Connor Hughes of The Athletic.com reports. Levin 26, has not played a regular-season game since 2018. The Titans made him a sixth-round choice in 2017, and he played all 16 games with one start in 2018. Levin played 140...

Getty Images The Jets have re-signed safety Bennett Jackson, the team announced Thursday. Jackson appeared in four games in 2020 and took 48 special teams snaps before he was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury. The Jets claimed Jackson off waivers in September 2019, and he has...

Getty Images BYU quarterback Zach Wilson, the presumptive No. 2 overall choice, had shoulder surgery before the 2019 season. That is the reason Wilson is among the almost 150 draft prospects in Indianapolis for medical checks. The Jets, though, don’t need to wait for the results from Wilson’s...

Getty Images The Jets are set to add a rookie quarterback with the second overall pick in this month’s draft and they’re also set to talk to a potential veteran to back up that quarterback. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports Brian Hoyer is scheduled to visit with the Jets on Thursday. Hoyer...

Getty Images The Jets traded Sam Darnold to the Panthers and perhaps got more out of the deal than they otherwise might have considering the apparent lack of another serious bidder. But two other teams were at least intrigued by the quarterback. Before free agency began, the 49ers and the...

Getty Images Jets General Manager Joe Douglas met the media on Tuesday to discuss the decision to trade quarterback Sam Darnold to the Panthers for a 2021 sixth-round pick, a 2022 second-round pick, and a 2022 fourth-round pick. Douglas said that the team may have made a different choice if...

Getty Images The Jets have made a habit out of trading their former first-round picks. Since General Manager Joe Douglas arrived after the 2019 draft, the club has traded 2015 first-round pick Leonard Williams, 2017 first-round pick Jamal Adams, and now 2018 first-round pick Sam Darnold. And...

Getty Images The Jets hold the No. 2 overall choice and traded their starting quarterback, Sam Darnold, to the Panthers. That leaves James Morgan and Mike White in the team’s quarterbacks room. Thus, it doesn’t take a genius NFL General Manager to ascertain the direction the Jets are going in...

Getty Images In 2020, the Panthers made a two-year financial commitment to quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. After one year, the Panthers decided to move on. In 2021, the Panthers have made a two-year financial commitment to quarterback Sam Darnold. In theory, they could decide to move on after...

Getty Images When the Jets traded quarterback Sam Darnold to the Panthers on Monday, they continued a long trend of trading away their first-round draft picks. In fact, Darnold, whom the Jets drafted in 2018, was the sixth consecutive first-round pick they traded. In 2017, the Jets picked...

Getty Images Quarterback Sam Darnold is headed to a new team after Monday’s trade, but he’ll have one familiar face waiting for him in Carolina. Wide receiver Robby Anderson played with Darnold during the quarterback’s first two seasons with the Jets and parlayed his production into a...

Getty Images The bad news for the Jets is they have a lot of holes on their roster. The good news is few teams are as well equipped as the Jets to improve their roster in the draft. The Jets have the second overall pick in this year’s draft, plus the second pick in every other round except the...

Getty Images Sam Darnold is on the move to Carolina. The Jets have traded Darnold to the Panthers in the latest in a series of big moves surrounding quarterbacks this offseason. The third overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft, Darnold failed to live up to the Jets’ expectations that he would...

Getty Images The Jets traded former No. 3 overall pick Sam Darnold to the Panthers on Monday, signaling their intent to draft a quarterback at No. 2 overall at the end of the month. New York General Manager Joe Douglas released a statement following the announcement of the trade, thanking...

Getty Images After trading for quarterback Sam Darnold on Monday, the Panthers aren’t planning to let him hit free agency in 2022. Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports Carolina will exercise Darnold’s fifth-year option. Carolina has the choice to do so, as Darnold was the No. 3 overall pick in...