WFAN host Evan Roberts is asking the Jets to attempt a do-over.
After seeing what the Jets have gotten from quarterback Justin Fields, who they signed for two years, $40 million last winter, Roberts is ready to move on. Instead, he wants to see the team correct a mistake they made on draft night, when they had five opportunities to draft Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and didn’t.
“It is time for the Jets to acquire Shedeur Sanders from the Cleveland Browns,” Roberts said on his WFAN show on Monday, via X/Twitter. “Someone tell me why that’s a bad idea, and I don’t want to hear about it’s a circus. What’s this? What the hell is this that we’re watching? Circus, that’s a circus. Bad, crappy football is a circus.
”The Jets should have drafted this guy, I don’t know, second, third, fourth. They had a million opportunities to draft him. He has not gotten an opportunity in Cleveland. ... All I’m saying is, I see a talent. I think we all talked about him as a guy that could at least be a serviceable starting quarterback in the NFL.
“They are not giving him a chance in Cleveland. If I’m (Jets GM) Darren Mougey, I call up ... my contemporaries in Cleveland, and I say, here’s a fifth-round pick back. Here’s your fifth back. Let’s get Shedeur in here, and let’s see what the kid has got. Because why not?”
Sanders went in the fifth round (144th overall) to the Browns in the draft. Despite posting a 1-5 record, he hasn’t even taken a snap for Cleveland this season — even after the Browns traded quarterback Joe Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals last week.
Even so, despite not having seen what Sanders can do in the NFL, Roberts believes it can’t get worse than Fields, who turned in another clunker against the Broncos on Sunday, completing just 9-of-17 passes for 45 yards.
Fields took nine sacks, including one to seal the game with just more than a minute left, on fourth-and-8, with the Jets at the Broncos 44 and just yards away from getting Nick Folk into range for a game-winning field goal try.
In five games this season, Fields has completed 80-of-123 for 799 yards with four touchdowns.
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