{"id":169267,"date":"2025-08-23T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:46:10","slug":"jets-backup-qb-tyrod-taylor-expected-to-be-ready-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169267\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets backup QB Tyrod Taylor expected to be ready for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755956770_46_cimini_rich.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Rich CiminiAug 23, 2025, 12:04 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"732d3caf-b350-1e34-48c6-b7cebb4a0d88\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyj\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a> backup quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"93cc8c92-8d08-5c88-80eb-a0b20a7621d7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/14163\/tyrod-taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrod Taylor<\/a>, who missed the preseason due to arthroscopic knee surgery, will be back for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m confident he&#8217;ll be ready for Week 1,&#8221; coach Aaron Glenn said Friday night after the Jets&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401772997\/eagles-jets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">19-17 loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> at MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>There had been some uncertainty about Taylor&#8217;s availability. When Glenn announced the surgery on Aug. 12, he said Taylor would &#8220;hopefully&#8221; return in time to serve as the No. 2 quarterback in the Sept. 7 opener against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"debcd592-8d53-71f1-fc15-5c8b8ef9df6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-steelers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Jets worked out two veterans, <a data-player-guid=\"074ee98c-babc-2a77-e9b9-6688a89761d8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2972236\/nathan-peterman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Peterman<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"b7900f2e-c45d-6bab-7785-f65b3f24dd83\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2979520\/cj-beathard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">C.J. Beathard<\/a>, fueling speculation that Taylor wouldn&#8217;t be ready.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 36, is <a data-player-guid=\"7e9fbd60-951e-2d9a-8d8c-b3f1ab6c4a4d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4362887\/justin-fields\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Fields<\/a>&#8216; primary backup. The other quarterbacks on the roster are <a data-player-guid=\"84b0cc1e-59f9-d277-d8a0-491330bb1bb8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361182\/adrian-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Martinez<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"1be5581c-a14f-3df5-9a87-539c6e3d3a9d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4429435\/brady-cook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Cook<\/a>, neither of whom has NFL experience. Cook is a rookie free agent from Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor figures to be rusty, considering he hasn&#8217;t practiced since late July. Glenn wouldn&#8217;t say when Taylor is expected to start practicing. The Jets will have at least five practices before facing the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez (30-for-51, 351 yards) and Cook (25-for-38, 235 yards) got plenty of work in the preseason, but they were inconsistent. Martinez threw two interceptions, Cook one. There&#8217;s a good chance one of them will be kept on the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wait and see for me and a lot of guys on the fence,&#8221; Martinez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich CiminiAug 23, 2025, 12:04 AM ET Close Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-169267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078390488391406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}