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With all the stuff going on around the Jets, this story is probably not getting the significant attention it deserves.
This is freakin huge.
The agent for Jets 2024 fifth-round pick, QB Jordan Travis, accused the team of screwing up his rehab last year.
Travis suffered a serious leg injury his last year at Florida State, so when the Jets picked him, they knew he would likely not play during his rookie year.
While the team practiced on one field, you often saw Travis on a second field, which is used for rehabbing players on IR, and other players with short-term injuries working their way back to playing in games.
ESPN’s Rich Cimini had a blockbuster earlier this week from Travis’ agent Deiric Jackson:
“His rehab with the Jets was not the best,” Jackson told ESPN. “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.”
This is perplexing.
Since the Jets had no plans to play Travis last year, who was rushing him?
The Jets had Aaron Rodgers starting last year, and 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.
So it’s unlikely the setback was caused by people rushing the process.
Now, it’s possible something didn’t go according to plan during the rehab, contributing to the setback.
I’m not pointing fingers at anybody, but that is possible. It happens. We are talking about very complicated surgeries involving the very complicated human body. Minnesota Vikings rookie QB J.J, McCarthy had knee surgery last season, and a few months later, they had to go back in and clean some things up.
Shortly after Cimini’s report, fans noticed that Travis had wiped his X (Twitter) account of any Jets references.
That is somewhat surprising, especially as an extremely religious man.
He had this quote on his X account on March 3 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.”
Religious people who follow the Bible often stress the importance of taking ‘the high road,” something Paul talked about.
They took a chance on a player who was severely injured as a senior and was not going to play last year and gave him a 4-year deal for $4.3 million.
If something happened last year with his rehab, does anybody think anybody did anything on purpose or with malicious intent?
A team official told Cimini that “they adhered to the rehab plan created by Travis’ surgeon, orthopedist Robert Anderson.”
We live in a crazy world now, with so much big news regularly, that the new big stories often push the old big stories out of people’s minds very fast.
But for a player’s camp to accuse of a team of screwing up his rehab, that this heady stuff.
Now, if a player had an injury, and went to another team, and said stuff like this about a former team, that isn’t as big a deal because the two sides cut ties.
But Travis is still with the Jets and only entering his second year.
And unless they made a change and didn’t announce it, they have retained their head trainer – David Zuffelato (pictured above talking to former Jets O-Line coach Keith Carter) and top doctors like Damion Martins, Andrew Willis, Ken Montgomery, Elliott Hershman and others.
So the player’s camp is making a pretty serious accusation against somebody in this department.
The Jets’ training staff and/or doctors should be pretty upset at this national story, which made them look bad.
Big story.
March 6, 2025
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