Two days after Justin Fields briefly offered a serious fear, he delivered solely excellent news.
Fields participated in particular person drills and 7-on-7s throughout Jets apply Saturday, a powerful signal of progress after he suffered a dislocated toe Thursday.
Fields was stepped on and needed to be carted off the sector throughout that Thursday apply, however moved nicely on the sector Saturday.
And Fields appeared terrific in 7-on-7s.
He went 6-for-6, together with a well-placed landing move to a streaking Tyler Johnson over the center of the sector.
Together with Johnson, Fields accomplished passes to Garrett Wilson (twice), Xavier Gipson, Brandon Smith and Arian Smith.
He didn’t take part in full 11-on-11s, although.
“I thought he did a good job in the 7-on-7,” coach Aaron Glenn stated. “He has a ways to go until we get him out there [fully]. We’re gonna make sure we keep the protocol going to make sure he’s ready.”
Glenn thought Saturday’s apply was significantly essential — and offered a useful check of his roster.
“Very, very critical day for us as a team,” Glenn stated. “The explanation why I say that, often whenever you undergo three days, then actually that fourth day is the day when you might have the two-hour apply. That’s whenever you begin to stress the gamers mentally and bodily.
“This is one of my favorite practices, it’s always been one of my favorite practices because of that, just to see how the players respond. I talked to them about it, and they knew exactly how to operate, they knew exactly how to respond, and I thought the guys came out and had a very spirited practice. Very happy about that.”
Will McDonald IV has appeared terrific to begin coaching camp and had one other large day. His pace as an edge rusher is nicely documented and was his calling card coming into the league.
However on Saturday, he utilized his energy with a bull rush to steamroll previous Armand Membou for a would-be sack throughout 11-on-11s.
It’s a transfer McDonald didn’t showcase a lot via his first two years within the league. However Glenn believes he’s all the time possessed it — it’s simply that his earlier coaches haven’t introduced it out of him.
“It’s coaching,” Glenn stated. “Because he can do it. You said he’s never done it last year. Now you see him do it. It’s just coaching, that’s all it is.”
