On Monday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter announced the Jets traded QB Justin Fields to the Kansas City Chiefs for a 2027 sixth-round pick.
Fields, signed last March, went 2-7 as a starter for the Jets last year.
After the Jets put Fields on injured reserve in December, their head coach, Aaron Glenn, was asked if he was disappointed in how the player’s season went.
“I said this last time, and this is for any player, any player that doesn’t have the season that we would like for them to have, that it’s always disappointing,” Glenn said.
Objectively speaking, there really shouldn’t have been a ton of disappointment in how Fields played.
He played similarly to how he performed in his first four years in a league, three with Chicago and one with Pittsburgh.
He is a great athlete with a rare combination of great speed and arm talent, but he is mainly a one-read-and-run QB with an internal clock in the pocket that needs to operate faster.
He has his moments where his wheels and howitzer arm create good plays, but there is a lot of inconsistency between those highlight film plays, so it’s hard to sustain drives with his uneven play.
But that was exactly what the film told us from his first four years, and as Bill Parcells liked to say, “When a player shows you who he is, believe him.”
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