The New York Jets may or may not be taking the starting quarterback job away from Zach Wilson, whom the franchise selected with the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL Draft just 19 months ago. Given a chance on Monday to commit to Wilson as the starter, head coach Robert Saleh not only didn’t do so, but explicitly said that, “We’re keeping everything on the table,” according to The Athletic.
It’s a steep fall for Wilson, but it’s hard to say it’s not deserved. New York is 5-2 in his seven starts this season, but almost entirely due to its defensive performance, rather than anything Wilson has done.
He’s completed just 55.6% of his passes at an average of 6.8 yards per attempt. He’s thrown only four touchdowns against five interceptions, and he has more touchdown-less games (four) than games in which he has thrown at least one score (three). He’s topped 252 passing yards in a game only once, but did so while going 20 of 41 for 355 yards, two touchdowns, and three picks in a loss to the Patriots three weeks ago.
Among 34 qualifying quarterbacks, according to Tru Media, Wilson ranks 34th in completion percentage, 32nd in touchdown rate (2.1%), 26th in interception rate (2.6%), 32nd in his rate of off-target throws (16.4%), 30th in first downs per attempt (29.6%), and 32nd in expected points added per dropback (-0.14). All this following a rookie season during which he completed 55.6% of his passes at an average of 6.1 yards per attempt, with nine touchdowns against 11 interceptions. In other words, he has made very little — if any — progress from Year 1 to Year 2.
Things came to a head this past Sunday, when he put together one of the worst passing performances in recent memory, completing just 9 of 22 passes for 77 yards. He was lucky to not be intercepted at least twice, and at one point, he threw a swing pass about two feet over 5-foot-9 Braxton Berrios‘ head, and that wasn’t the only time he overshot one of the easiest throws a quarterback is asked to make.
It was like that all day, and it was like that in the previous game against the Pats. The should’ve-been-interception he threw to Devin McCourty on Sunday was really bad; his actual interceptions against the Pats a few weeks back were worse. They displayed all of Wilson’s worst instincts: sloppy footwork, unearned over-confidence in his ability to make any throw at any time, a refusal to live to play another down, the…
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