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Getty Images The NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Packers and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. Questionable players are uncertain to play, doubtful players are...

Getty Images Kaare Vedvik‘s kicking with the Ravens last summer and this summer made him a trade target for several teams and it was hard to imagine he’d wind up on the waiver wire when the Vikings landed him for a fifth-round pick last month. Vedvik missed three of the four field goals he...

Getty Images When Jets running back Le'Veon Bell plays his first game as a Jet on Sunday, it will be the 63rd game of his career. And he’ll almost certainly do something no player in NFL history has done in his first 63 games. Bell is set to reach 8,000 career yards from scrimmage, and by...

Getty Images Jachai Polite earned the unwanted distinction of becoming the highest drafted player from the 2019 draft class to be released. The 68th overall selection from this year’s draft was released by the New York Jets over the weekend and went unclaimed off waivers before signing on with...

Getty Images The Jets listed wide receiver Robby Anderson as a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice, but they aren’t expecting his calf injury to get in the way of playing in the season opener. Head coach Adam Gase said on Thursday that the team is taking it easy with Anderson at...

Getty Images After returner Andre Roberts signed with the Bills as a free agent in March, he said the chance to play the Jets twice this season was “the biggest thing” driving his desire to go to Buffalo. Roberts played for the Jets last season and was voted a first team All-Pro after leading...

Getty Images Le’Veon Bell hasn’t played professional football since Jan. 14, 2018, meaning it will be more than 600 days between games when he takes the field Sunday for the Jets. So his message to coach Adam Gase this week was simple. “When I spoke to him [Tuesday] he said, ‘Don’t hold...

Getty Images The Jets chose Quinnen Williams with the third overall pick in this year’s draft, but Williams has not yet earned a starting job. Williams is listed as second string on the Jets’ first depth chart of the season, behind Steve McLendon on the defensive line. Teams’ publicly...

Getty Images Jets quarterback Sam Darnold has one of the highest-profile jobs in the NFL. And yet, he’s been able to stay low-key, which earned the approval of a guy who is historically hard to impress. Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells told Brian Costello of the New York Post that Darnold had...

Getty Images Running back Le'Veon Bell last played in a game when the Steelers lost to the Jaguars in a playoff game on January 14, 2018 and his long absence from the playing field is set to end this Sunday when the Jets host the Bills to kick off the 2019 season. Bell didn’t play last season...

Getty Images The New York Jets will enter the 2019 season with a new coach, a new General Manager, new uniforms, and now a new team president. Neil Glat exited last week; the team has announced that senior V.P. and general counsel Hymie Elhai will become the new president. The 43-year-old...

Getty Images Tuesday’s three-man weave edition of PFT Live included a three-man, three-round draft, with Peter King, Chris Simms, and yours truly looking at a very important question. Which transactions will have the most impact on the 2019 NFL season? We excluded the retirement of Andrew...

Getty Images The Jets have a new assistant coach with plenty of playing experience. Hines Ward has been added to the coaching staff on a full-time basis, head coach Adam Gase announced today. Ward worked with the Jets as a coaching intern over the summer, and Gase said he was impressed with...

Getty Images The Jets have moved on from Jachai Polite, and coach Adam Gase would like to move on from talking about Jachai Polite. The team dumped the 2019 third-round selection on Saturday, and PFT reported on Sunday that he’d been fined more than $100,000 during his short time with the...

Getty Images The Jets are optimistic that they’ll have two of their starters in the lineup against Buffalo on Sunday despite soft tissue injuries that cost them time this summer. Cornerback Trumaine Johnson‘s hamstring injury kept him out of action for most of the summer and all but three...

Getty Images Count linebacker Albert McClellan among the ranks of veteran players who were temporarily unemployed before returning to the team that cut them a couple of days later. The Jets released McClellan on Saturday, but reversed course and signed him to their 53-man roster on Monday. The...

Getty Images So why did the Jets cut the cord on 2019 third-round draft pick Jachai Polite? While his on-field performance surely was a factor, disciplinary issues apparently came into play. Per a league source, Polite was fined more than $100,000 for tardiness and other issues regarding doing...

Getty Images How unusual was it for Jachai Polite, the Jets’ third-round draft pick, not to make a 53-man roster? So unusual that to find the next draft pick not on a roster, you have to go another 90 spots down in the draft order. Polite, whom the Jets selected 68th overall, cleared waivers...

Getty Images When the Eagles cut running back Josh Adams on Saturday, we noted that the Jets might be a landing spot on waivers for Philly’s leading rusher in 2018. The Jets were said to be looking for running back depth in recent days and General Manager Joe Douglas worked for the Eagles when...

Getty Images The Jets claimed four players off of waivers on Sunday and that meant a short stay on the 53-man roster for four players who escaped the ax on Saturday. The Jets announced that they have released linebacker Albert McClellan and waived wide receiver Greg Dortch, safety Doug...