Jets to prep QB Taylor to start in case Fields out

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- With backmost Justin Fields successful the NFL's concussion protocol, the New York Jets are preparing for the anticipation of starting Tyrod Taylor connected Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Because of the uncertainty, the Jets volition make plans for some quarterbacks, according to manager Aaron Glenn.

"We person to get much accusation truthful we tin beryllium much pinpointed connected that, but we bash person to look astatine it that way," Glenn said Monday morning. "If Justin can't play, past Tyrod would beryllium the guy, and we'd physique a program that's suitable for him."

Fields was injured aboriginal successful the 4th fourth of Sunday's 30-10 nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills, erstwhile antiaircraft extremity Joey Bosa bushed rookie choky extremity Mason Taylor with an extracurricular unreserved and deed Fields from the beforehand side. The backmost of his helmet slammed the turf, and helium near the game.

This was Fields' archetypal documented concussion successful the NFL, though helium did person 1 astatine Ohio State. He finished Sunday's crippled with a career-low QBR (1.1).

Glenn said it would beryllium "hard for maine arsenic a coach" to commencement Fields if helium has nary signifier reps connected Wednesday and Thursday. The NFL has a five-step protocol for concussions, and the subordinate indispensable beryllium cleared by an autarkic neurologist earlier helium returns to action.

The Jets are looking to debar their archetypal 0-3 commencement since 2021.

Taylor replaced Fields and played 2 drives successful garbage time, the second ending with a 5-yard touchdown walk to choky extremity Jeremy Ruckert. Taylor (7-for-11, 56 yards) missed the full preseason owed to arthroscopic genu surgery, raising questions astir his readiness for a imaginable start.

Glenn said that's "not concerning astatine all. ... He's been successful this league for a agelong time. It doesn't instrumentality overmuch for him to recognize precisely what we're trying to bash and what we're trying to get done, truthful I person nary concerns astir that."

Taylor, 36, has 58 vocation starts, but helium hasn't started a crippled since 2023 with the New York Giants. He rode the Jets' seat past season, down Aaron Rodgers, appearing successful lone mop-up situations.