{"id":79824,"date":"2025-12-24T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:32:13","slug":"justin-fields-lands-on-ir-to-likely-end-disappointing-jets-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79824\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Fields lands on IR to likely end disappointing Jets stint"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jets officially shut down quarterback Justin Fields on Tuesday, placing him on season-ending injured reserve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move ends Fields\u2019 first, and likely last, season with the Jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fields has not played since Nov. 13 against the Patriots<\/a>. He was benched in favor of Tyrod Taylor the following week. Fields hurt his knee in practice two weeks later. <\/p>\n

He has been inactive for the last three Jets games despite practicing the last two weeks. The Jets are now starting rookie Brady Cook at quarterback<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to see how we could get this thing to work,\u201d Jets coach Aaron Glenn said. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t getting as better as we would like it. We wanted to make sure we get a focus on that to get him better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jets signed Fields to a two-year, $40 million contract in March with $30 million in guaranteed money. <\/p>\n

They named him the starting quarterback immediately, but it has not worked out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Jets went 2-7 in games that Fields started. He missed one game early in the season with a concussion. Fields completed 62.7 percent of his passes for 1,259 yards. He threw for seven touchdowns and one interception. He was sacked 27 times. <\/p>\n

In addition, Fields ran 71 times for 383 yards and four touchdowns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fields said last week that he was trying to return this season but that doctors had found an issue with his knee. Glenn said he was not sure if Fields would need surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JustinJustin Fields struggled when he played for the Jets in 2025. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is for any player that doesn\u2019t have the season that we would like for them to have,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cIt\u2019s always disappointing. \u2026 any player that we have high hopes for and the season doesn\u2019t go the way we wanted it to go, we\u2019re always disappointed in that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This likely is the end of Fields\u2019 time with the Jets. He is under contract for next year, but the Jets are expected to move on from him. Fields carries a $23 million cap number for next year, and the Jets will get very little relief from that by cutting him. <\/p>\n

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They will save $1 million against the cap and he will carry a $22 million dead-money hit. <\/p>\n

If they designate him as a post-June 1 cut, that number goes down to $13 million for 2026 and $9 million in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fields, a 2021 first-round pick of by the Bears, was asked last week about his disappointment in how the season went.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JetsJets quarterback Justin Fields speaks to the media after practice in Florham Park, NJ. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely not what we planned it out to be,\u201d Fields said. \u201cBut it\u2019s life. Nothing works out how you want it to, but everything happens for a reason. I\u2019ll just keep getting better as a quarterback \u2014 evolving my game and changing my game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets officially shut down quarterback Justin Fields on Tuesday, placing him on season-ending injured reserve.\u00a0 The move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6768,9,11,430,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-79824","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79824","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=79824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}