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The position of Justin Fields on the New York Jets stays unsure, regardless of his paycheck reflecting that of a beginning quarterback.

Jets head coach Aaron Glenn has lately averted making any public commitments to Fields as the crew’s principal quarterback. Before the Jets’ final two video games in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns, Glenn shunned revealing his alternative for the beginning quarterback till the final minute.

Earlier this yr in March, the Jets took a risk on Fields by signing him to a two-year contract value $40 million. This profitable deal, which ranks him as the twentieth highest-paid quarterback this yr primarily based on average annual worth ($20 million), contains a $15 million signing bonus and $30 million absolutely assured.

However, more than midway via his first season with the Jets, Fields hasn’t precisely confirmed himself as the crew’s long-term resolution at quarterback. In eight video games, he is thrown for 1,143 yards, six touchdowns, and one interception, whereas additionally speeding 60 instances for 316 yards and three extra touchdowns.

In the lead-up to the Jets’ ‘Thursday Night Football’ sport in opposition to the New England Patriots, Glenn shortly dismissed any questions concerning the quarterback place.

“Please don’t ask me anything about the quarterback because you know I’m not going to tell you, and I don’t want to waste my time when it comes to that when it comes to who’s starting,” he mentioned.

Glenn, who has a historical past of retaining the Jets’ quarterback choices below wraps, was requested final week if publicly naming a beginning quarterback boosts their confidence.

“It helps the quarterback’s confidence when the player and the coach talk and they know who the guy is,” he mentioned. “Not that I’m telling it to you guys. That has nothing to do with the player’s confidence.”

When questioned additional about whether or not the supposed beginning quarterback is aware of they’re beginning all through the follow week, Glenn responded: “That’ll be between me and the player. I don’t understand why you guys keep doing it.

“It’s actually getting hilarious too, since you keep asking the identical query, and I keep giving you a similar reply.”

However, given Fields’ recent struggles, it raises the question of whether the Jets would be better off turning to veteran Tyrod Taylor.

In Fields’ latest start – a 27-20 victory over the struggling Cleveland Browns – he completed 6-of-11 passes for 54 yards, 42 of which came on a screen pass to running back Breece Hall, while connecting on just two passes past the line of scrimmage. Despite Fields’ lackluster performance, Glenn still found some positives. “You know what, collectively as an offense, I believe we did some good issues,” he said.

“The factor is while you get two returns like that on particular groups the offense does not have a good quantity of performs particularly within the passing sport. We solely threw 11 passes. I believe he was 6-of-11.

“Obviously, there’s some things that we got to clean up there, but there’s also some good things that [Fields] did.”