Zach Wilson is out for Sunday, with a concussion
Zach Wilson is out, at least for Sunday.
The starter turned backup turned starter turned backup turned starter will miss Sunday’s game against the Commanders. Jets coach Robert Saleh said Friday that Wilson is out with a concussion sustained last weekend in Miami.
The two quarterbacks will be Trevor Siemian and Brett Rypien. Siemian will start. Although Aaron Rodgers is on the 53-man roster so that he can continue to practice, he won’t be the emergency third quarterback.
The Jets have been eliminated from playoff contention. At this point, there’s a benefit to losing — since it will push them higher in the draft order for round one. (Their second-round pick was sent to the Packers as part of the Rodgers trade.)
But the first rule of Tank Club is don’t talk about Tank Club. It’s far better to just let it happen. With Siemian and Rypien as the options for the 5-9 Jets, it’s more likely to come naturally.
Sam Howell: Can’t worry about next year, just want to play good football next three weeks
The Commanders appear to be on the precipice of major change this offseason and a coaching change could be followed by a quarterback change.
Sam Howell has started every game this season and he’s had some good performances, but his play has sagged along with the rest of the team during a five-game losing streak and Jacoby Brissett replaced him during last Sunday’s loss to the Rams. Howell will start against the Jets this Sunday in what is shaping up to be the start of a three-week audition for 2024 and he was asked at a Wednesday press conference about how much he’s thinking about the future heading into the game.
“I honestly don’t really look at it much,” Howell said. “It really doesn’t mean anything right now and I think what matters is how I play each and every week. Obviously, you can worry all year long about what’s going to happen next year, but for me, I just kind of take the approach of taking it one week at a time and really try to focus in and do everything I can on a week-to-week basis to play my best football. Just because obviously there’s a lot of questions about what’s going to happen after this year, but I feel like if I’m playing my best football at a consistent rate, then those questions won’t be there. That’s just kind of the way I look at it. I’m just going to try to keep doing what I can to play good football and put good film on tape these last three games.”
It’s hard to assess what the future will hold for Howell until the Commanders make their call on head coach Ron Rivera and the overall direction of the franchise, but it’s not the sure thing the team hoped it would be when the season got underway.
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