by Jets move from Aaron Rodgers After two seasons. Consequently, approaching who will be a quarterrier in 2025 becomes one of the main priorities of the new managing director Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn.
Even if they seek to write their quarter-rear of the future in April, New York should involve a competition for Tyrod Taylor.
Could Justin Fields be a candidate for this role?
The 26 -year -old started the 2024 season as a starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but was relegated to a reserve role once veteran Russell Wilson I am in good health. After three years from top to bottom with the Bears, did the fields show enough promises with the Steelers to be a viable candidate to start in 2025?
Decompos the advantages and disadvantages …
Pros
A viable stopping
If the jets choose to follow the road to the quarter of the bridge, the fields check a lot of boxes. It should be affordable, willing to accept a short -term agreement and has a lot of experience – with 44 games have started in the last four seasons.
After a year in Pittsburgh, it will undoubtedly be impatient to sign with a team where he has a realistic blow to save regular playing time, so that he can consider jets as an appropriate destination.
Upward potential
Fields is still young enough for if he had to start making his full potential with the jets, so he could be an option to be their long -term solution. For this reason, there could be the motivation of jets and fields to accept an agreement and try to make it work.
When he was the fourth quarter -Arrière selected in the draft of the NFL 2021 – at n ° 11 in total, nine places behind Zach Wilson – The Bears knew that they obtained a quarter with a winning pedigree and an exceptional athletics. Although it has not been coherent enough at the NFL level to be up to the task so high, at least it would inject a certain excitement in a jet offense which has been accused of being boring to look sometimes in recent years.
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The double threat capacities of Fields would give the new attacking staff a chance to create a diversified offensive system with it at the helm. Success oF Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen And Jalen hurts Last season shows how important it is to have a quarter-tree that can play with your legs. If the jets put players around the fields and create a system that plays its strengths in the passing game, it could unlock part of this unrealized potential.
He has a set of skills similar to that of Taylor, which would therefore be a good mentor for him. There are also project prospects that bring the same type of athletics to the table, so add one of these also created a quarter of cohesive with interchangeable pieces and a familiarity of the diagram.
In addition, Fields would be found with his college teammate, a wide receiver Garrett Wilson. The pair would obviously have immediate chemistry and that this decision would underline the commitment of the new regime to build the offensive around Wilson, which should help to alleviate the persistent frustrations of last year.
Disadvantages
Passage number
The precipitated figures of the fields have sometimes been spectacular. He rushed to 19 affected during his career and posted five 100 yards on the ground. However, as a smuggler, he was not so productive, with an average of only 155 yards per match, with a career of 111 yards per game last season.
The challenge for the new coach staff would be to find a way to increase their production game production. Otherwise, their offense would be too unidimensional and the fields would find it difficult to keep its passing passers happy.
He has two 300 yards passes in his career, which could be something to rely on.
Recruit contracts have difficulties
After being drafted by the Bears, Fields was a starter for most of the following three seasons, but won only 10 of the 38 departures. In 2022, he started 15 career games, but was the most dismissed quarter in the league and also led the NFL in the escaped.
Although he did a decent job as a game manager at the Steelers, Fields was not good enough to establish himself as a long -term option on the Wilson veteran. In order to comply with its next contract, the fields must improve its consistency.
If it’s not fields, then who?
There are other potentially available options, but all have drawbacks, so jets could end up trying to try to make things work with fields despite its limits. However, some of the other candidates have attractive characteristics that the fields could be considered missing.
Kirk cousinswhich should be released, has excellent experience and will be cheap due to compensation for his contract. However, his difficulties towards the end of last year probably make his long -term sustainability. If someone more established as Derek Carr has become available, it could be a movement thoroughly, but it would be much more expensive. Wilson brings a similar experience but is older, while Sam Darnold will be on request but probably hesitates to consider a return to the jets.
Verdict
The targeting fields seem to have more sense for jets than all other options available. It would not be a long -term commitment that withdraws the organization of the years if it does not work, and it would be a decision that has the possibility of paying both in the short and long term. If the interest is mutual, this could be the agreement that obliges the Mougey-Glenn regime for a promising start.
