{"id":42681,"date":"2025-11-17T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:02:19","slug":"jets-finally-benching-justin-fields-for-tyrod-taylor-in-qb-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42681\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets finally benching Justin Fields for Tyrod Taylor in QB shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets are finally making the switch.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a month after owner Woody Johnson publicly put Justin Fields on blast, the team is benching its starting QB in favor of veteran Tyrod Taylor for Week 12 against the Ravens, The Post\u2019s Brian Costello confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>During Thursday\u2019s loss to the Patriots, Fields was 15-for-26 with 116 yards, one touchdown and a lost fumble.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has completed 62.7 percent of his passes for 1,259 yards, seven touchdowns and one interception in nine starts this season after signing a two-year, $40 million contract with the Jets during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37689313\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-jets-quarterback-tyrod-115111822_bb9270.jpg\" alt=\"Tyrod Taylor\" class=\"wp-image-37689313\"  \/>Tyrod Taylor Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41828255;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37689336\" width=\"837\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-13-25-new-england-115373387.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Fields\" class=\"wp-image-37689336\"  \/>Justin Fields Charles Wenzelberg for The New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, 36, is in his second season with the Jets and in limited action has thrown for 379 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions this season.<\/p>\n<p>At the owners\u2019 meetings last month, Johnson said, \u201cIf we could just complete a pass, it would look good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jets coach Aaron Glenn has previously refused to name a starter when asked about the quarterbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets are finally making the switch. Nearly a month after owner Woody Johnson publicly put Justin Fields&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6768,9,11,430,10,22,319,7639],"class_list":{"0":"post-42681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-justin-fields","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tyrod-taylor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42681","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=42681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}