Jet News

A day late but it’s now official that the Jets vice president of college scouting has left the team to join the Oakland Raiders for  position in their front office mos likely to be the head of college scouting as the Raiders had recently fired their own scouts. The Jets had wanted Clinkscales to stay… Read more

In other Jets news, CB Ellis Lankster was recently honored by the Stuttering Foundation when he was given the Foundation’s “Converting Awareness into Action” Award for everything he has done to inspire those who stutter. From the article: Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, stated, “Ellis shows his true toughness by sharing his struggles… Read more

According to Jenny Vrentas of The Star Ledger defensive end Mike DeVito has restructured his contract allowing for salary cap savings: His (DeVito’s) cap number, and total compensation, reduced by about $600,000 in the restructure. Since he is due a guaranteed $2.5 million, it is essentially assured that the team will not cut him. Vrentas… Read more

With the conclusion of rookie-camp the Jets have made a few roster moves: They have signed Matt Simms, an invitee to the recently held camp, quarterback out of the University of Tennessee.  Simms is the son of former Giants quarterback, current CBS analyst, Phil Simms and his brother Chris played five seasons in the NFL. … Read more

The Star Ledger’s Jenny Vrentas is reporting that the Jets have signed #187 overall draft pick safety Josh Bush to a contract: The Jets are making quick work of signing their new rookies, agreeing to terms today on a four-year deal with sixth-round draft pick Josh Bush. While details are not yet available Bush will most… Read more

The Jets had their second day of rookie mini-camp and it was not without some controversy.  As reported earlier on Jets-Nation first round draft pick Quinton Coples was held out of a portion of practice without an injury or any particular reason.  “We kind of held (Quinton) Coples out of team today … obviously had… Read more

Various sources have confirmed that New York Jets first round draft pick Quinton Coples had been told to remain out of 11-on-11 drills during today’s rookie mini-camp:   Jenny Vrentas / The Star Ledger: Coples was suited up for practice today and took part in individual drills, but he was on the sideline for the… Read more

The Jets had their first day of rookie mini-camp yesterday and Head Coach Rex Ryan discussed the practice along with his impressions of the newest members of the team. Some of the Jets top draft picks gave a perspective of their first day and how they are handling the process while trying to improve. “Guys… Read more

Rookie minicamp is here and this thread from our Jets forum has some interesting updates.  The New York Jets will also be providing some excellent coverage as well on their site. The Jets’ rookie minicamp begins Friday with a morning practice and then we invite you to join us for a special live video broadcast… Read more

New York Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano spoke to the media on Thursday.  Here are some noteworthy highlights: On Tim Tebow’s role in the offense… Well, I won’t give you the vision on what I think his role will be in the offense.  But I would just say that to the best of my knowledge… Read more

Courtesy NY Jets PR Department The New York Jets have waived G Trevor Canfield. The announcement was made by General Manager Mike Tannenbaum. Canfield (G/6-5/307/Cincinnati/Cincinnati, OH) initially joined the Jets during training camp (08/04/11) and was signed to a reserve/future contract (01/20/12). He spent time on the Jets practice squad in 2011 before being released… Read more