{"id":327085,"date":"2026-08-22T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:24:08","slug":"qb-geno-smith-perfect-leading-jets-to-score-on-opening-drive-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327085\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Geno Smith Perfect Leading Jets to Score on Opening Drive in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want him to feel the starting vibes to go out and play,&#8221; HC Aaron Glenn told CBS-TV before the game. &#8220;I want to see improvement and move the ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith was held out of last week&#8217;s preseason opener against Tampa Bay because of a sore ankle.<\/p>\n<p>He gave way to rookie fourth-round draft pick <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/cade-klubnik\/\" title=\"Cade Klubnik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Klubnik<\/a> on the Jets&#8217; second series of the game. In his short work in the game, Smith was perfect, completing 7-of-7 passes for 65 yards, the TD and a 144.9 QB rating.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who was drafted out of West Virginia in the second round in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s 30th and most recent start as a Jets QB came Oct. 23, 2016, Week 7, against Baltimore at MetLife Stadium. He played 4 series and 24 plays before having his season come to an end with a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>His first game appearance of any kind as a Jets QB was in relief of Mark Sanchez at Detroit on Aug. 9, 2013 in the 2013 preseason opener &#8212; more than 13 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I want him to feel the starting vibes to go out and play,&#8221; HC Aaron Glenn told CBS-TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7640,85,9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-327085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-geno-smith","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}