With all the stuff going on around the Jets, this story perhaps didn’t get the significant attention it deserved.
The agent for Jets 2024 fifth-round pick, Jordan Travis, accused the team of mishandling the quarterback’s leg rehab last year.
Travis suffered a serious leg injury his final year at Florida State, so when the Jets picked him, they knew he would likely not play during his rookie year.
Last year was all about rehab for the West Palm Beach native, and his agent, Deiric Jackson, doesn’t feel the rehab was handled well.
“His rehab with the Jets was not the best,” Jackson told ESPN’s Rich Cimini. “They tried to rush him. It was too fast. There was pressure on the coaching staff and they tried to get him going sooner than the timeline really was. That caused the setback, and we had to shut him down completely.”
Some might find the concept that he was rushed perplexing. Since the Jets had no plans to play Travis last year, who was rushing him?
The Jets had starting QB Aaron Rodgers with veteran Tyrod Taylor backing him up. They also had Adrian Martinez on their practice squad, in case of an emergency.
You never got the sense that Travis playing last season was ever on the table.
Now, it’s possible something didn’t go according to plan during the rehab, contributing to the setback, but perhaps not related to rushing things. Setbacks in rehab aren’t uncommon.
A team official told Cimini that “they adhered to the rehab plan created by Travis’ surgeon, orthopedist Robert Anderson.”
And unless they made a change and didn’t announce it, the new regime has retained their head trainer and top doctors.
So it stands to reason the trainer and/or doctors could be somewhat upset at this national story, which made them look bad. Who would ever want to be accused of messing up a rehab?
Perhaps Travis will never be asked about this, which is common these days, but this is a pretty big story in the Jets’ Kingdom: Saying the team messed up a player’s rehab is heady stuff.
Stay tuned.
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