One of 15 UDFAs to sign with the Jets on May 9, Cook completed 65.8% (25 of 38) of his passes in the preseason for 235 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT. He was added to the practice squad on Aug. 27. Cook, who went 26-12 as a starter at Missouri from 2022-24, threw for 8,591 yards, 46 touchdowns and 15 interceptions while completing 64.6% of his passes. The St. Louis native also had career 1,209 rushing yards. A team captain in 2024, he’s the only player in Missouri football history with a pass, run and catch of at least 75 yards.<\/p>\n
“He’s smart, he’s tough, he’s competitive,” Glenn said. “A number of traits that you want in a quarterback, so any guy that we have here \u2013 there is a reason why they’re here.”<\/p>\n
Cook could start his first NFL game against a Jacksonville defense that is tied for No. 2 in both takeaways (23) and interceptions (15). After coming in cold against Miami, he should benefit from the increased workload regardless.<\/p>\n
“To have this tape, this experience to watch, to build on, to learn from, however many reps I got today that’s going to be huge for me,” he said following his three-and-a-half quarters of action against Miami. “I look forward to seeing the tape, building off of it. However the reps shake out this week, next week, I’m going to be ready to play, whether the starter, whether the backup, whether the third string, it doesn’t matter. I’m going to be ready to play, ready to win the Jets a football game.”<\/p>\n
Jetcetera
In addition to QBs Tyrod Taylor (groin) and Justin Fields (knee soreness), TE Mason Taylor, CB Azareye’h Thomas<\/a>, LB Kiko Mauigoa<\/a>, TE Stone Smartt<\/a>, RB Breece Hall<\/a> (knee soreness), LB Quincy Williams<\/a> and DT Harrison Phillips<\/a> won’t practice Wednesday. “A lot it is just maintenance for the most part, so we can get our guys rested and ready to play,” said HC Aaron Glenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of 15 UDFAs to sign with the Jets on May 9, Cook completed 65.8% (25 of 38)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[429,34277,85,9,24,55,54,12,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-68238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-brady-cook","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238","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=68238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}