After concluding OTAs and their voluntary portion of the offseason, the Jets will hold their annual mandatory minicamp this week at 1 Jets Drive. With the regular season opener vs. the 49ers fewer than three months away, the Jets have plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about the season ahead.
But the Green & White don’t need to look far to be reminded how quickly things can change on the roster. Safety Chuck Clark, acquired from Baltimore in a trade last March, was lost for the season when he sustained a torn ACL on the last play of OTAs in 2023.
“Got up, walked away, walked off the field,” he told reporters last week. “I mean, if you see the video, I actually ran back to the sidelines, so didn’t know. That happened on a Friday, came back in on a Monday and it was like, yeah, that had happened. So, I went the whole weekend moving around the house, my car, this is natural football game soreness, it’s going to be good by the weekend. I couldn’t believe it when it did happen, like I wasn’t accepting it, like I’m moving around, it’s just not true. So, yeah, last play.”
After completing OTAs this spring, Clark’s minicamp snaps will be a first for him with the Jets. QB Aaron Rodgers, who sustained an Achilles tendon tear four snaps into this Jets’ regular season debut vs. the Bills last September, has been sharp as ever throughout the spring. He recently estimated he’s at about 90% and has dazzled with the legendary live arm and trademark no-look passes.
“He has found some sort of fountain of youth because I don’t ever see a different version of him,” said DC Jeff Ulbrich. “He’s the same guy I saw the last four weeks of the season when he was dicing us up in the scout team stuff. He’s got something figured out, whatever it is, but it’s just, I don’t see any velocity off the ball. I don’t see a lack of movement. He’s got the same personality that pisses you off during the week and then you love on Sundays. So, I can’t wait to actually…
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