New York Jets: Three players who must earn their 2019 jobs
Jermaine Kearse
Quincy Enunwa is the number one receiver but he was coming off of injury and has been banged up in 2018. Robby Anderson is a solid deep threat, but hasn’t proved to be much else thus far in his career.
Jermaine Kearse, however, was supposed to be that security blanket. He was that veteran player that was supposed to be there for Sam Darnold the way he was for Josh McCown in 2017.
To his credit, Kearse was great in 2017, posting 65 receptions for 810 yards and five touchdowns. He became a guy that McCown could rely on when he needed a big catch.
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This year, however, Kearse has been unreliable. He has been targeted 53 times but only catching 24 passes thus far for 231 yards and no scores as of yet. The catch percentage is 45.3%. That isn’t just unreliable. That is highly unreliable.
Pro Football Focus has only credited Kearse with two drops, but that is far from calling him sure-handed. He has not been good, and he is a free agent at the end of the season.
If he wants back in New York, Kearse had better step things up over the final six games of the season.
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