Jenkins Battling Back
Jenny Vrentas writes an interesting article in today’s Star-Ledger about Kris Jenkins’ recovery process, and what phase he’s up to right now. Working on his muscle mass and getting back to the weight he wants to be at for training camp this summer.
For weeks, he recovered and rehabbed. Now, he has begun the daunting process of reconditioning and rebuilding his body to be ready when — and if — training camp begins in six months.
Training at TEST Sports Clubs in Martinsville, Jenkins gulped from a red aluminum water bottle and characterized this as a “tortured experiment” to build back the muscle mass he lost in nearly two full seasons spent on the sideline.
But in another breath, he also called it a “vacation,” though the sweat-soaked 31-year-old acknowledged that might not seem to make sense.
“This is a celebration of my life, and what I want it to be,” Jenkins explained. “This is what we consider leaving on your own terms.”
I would like nothing better than to see Kris Jenkins battling in the Jets uniform this season, but he’s coming off two years where he’s had a tough time with his knees, and the Jets are going to scrimp and save every penny they can to resign players like Braylon Edwards, Santonio Holmes, and many more. Kris Jenkins has a decent cap number, so it’s easy to wonder what – if any – conversations the Jets have already had with Jenkins, or might yet have.
37 Responses to Jenkins Battling Back
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cake, and we need you bad. Would save us from think of drafting Taylor. We can use the pick on Rahim Moore. If we Keep Cro, that would be scary! with Moore, we may not need Cro.
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Come on, everyone come say how he won’t play for the Jets.
It’ll just make it that much more sweeter when he does this to someone next season:
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where are all of you know who said he is washed up!!?????
remember little giants?
“who’s the cheerleader?”
“thants no cheerleader, thats my niece beckey,…..AND SHE’S PISSED!”
OR
“THATS NO BEAR, THATYS OUR BOY JENKS,…. AND HE’S PISSED”
he is going to unleash hell
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I went to the giants-jets preseason game, snuck down next to the jets sideline, and some giants fans were just giving him loads of sh**. The one thing I remember though is they kept telling him to go get Sanchez, and all jenks would say is “you want Sanchez you gotta go through me.”
I want this guy on our team next year.
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i love that video…im hoping kris jenkins gets ready for this season and stays as healthyh as possible! im rooting for u big jenks!
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Hey Brendan I read an article about NFL players who suffered ruptured Achilles injuries. From reading the article it does not sound like Pottie will be the player you are hoping for.
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1275/2/35136/achilles-tendon-rupture-ends-many-nfl-careers.html
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Well, there is no hard data attached to this article, so I’d like to look at that before coming to any conclusions.
I don’t remember, was his tear a complete tear (I think it was).
But general statements like “and those who did (return from the injury) were never able to reach pre-injury levels of performance” make me pause. No one? Not one player?
A quick google search turned up Greg Ellis, who came back from a complete achilles tear in 2006 to notch a career-high in sacks in 2007 (12.5) and made the Pro Bowl.
I see your one Mayo Clinic study, and raise you a google search.
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Bent says: If it makes you feel any better, Edge from WWE hasn’t missed a beat since his return from a similar injury. That’s almost the same, right?
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comparing football to WWE? Weak attempt at humor? You and Brendan should get a room together. Maybe you guys could do a mutual post together about how schotty is such a wonderful offensive play caller. Seriously you offend anybody who ever wore a set of cleats to compare any sport to WWE. And this from a man in his youth used to watch Bruno Samartino.
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Bent says:
Obviously I was 100% serious (/sarcasm).
I have never said Schottenheimer was a wonderful play caller. However, every single one of your criticisms of him lack substance. There are some things Schottenheimer deserves criticism for and other posters manage to do so constructively. You just tirelessly repeat that he sucks and then resort to personal attacks when someone defends him – often with facts to back up their opinion.
Is there any reason I shouldn’t ban you for your repeated personal attacks? It’s not like you bring any useful insight to the blog.
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There is no way the Jets can in any way count Jenkins in their plans. He just can’t stay on the field. Jets need to draft for DL.
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I really like Jenks & hope he makes it back. Seems like a great guy as a team member, family member or friend, but if the Jets plan on him playing they’re insane.
Over the last two years the Jets have played in 38 games (16 reg + 3 post season x 2) and Kris has only appeared in 7. That’s 18.4%!
If Kris comes back at 32 (in August) for one more season (or more?), great: I’m rooting for him, but the Jets better plan on going without him. In this case the stats don’t lie.
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Will be interesting to see what the Jets do with him, contractually. If he’s on the field and healthy, he’s a complete monster, and gives you Haloti Ngata-type performance, and makes a HUGE difference in the pass rush.
As others have stated, though, that’s a huge if- can you pay a guy what he’s owed on the hope that this is the one year in 3 that he’ll be healthy?
As great a guy as he’s always come off, he doesn’t strike me as someone who would be happy to take a pay cut and then resign w/ the same team.
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where else is he going to go!? the fact is he has nowhere else to go, and the only reason he is coming back is for rex, rex coaches the jets, whats the debate here?
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There is no way that the Jets can keep Jenkins if they plan on bringing back Cro, Tone, Braylon and Harris. Not unless he is willing to play for 1 million or less.
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Bent says:
I wouldn’t say no way. There’s plenty of other cost cutting moves they could make.
I’m not saying I expect them to bring those guys back, but I reckon they could if they wanted to.
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I love this guy. Between him and Bart Scott I feel like we have a team of philosophers with all the great quotes we get. But we can’t be relying on him to contribute for us, and he needs to rework his deal so that it’s ALL incentives. Otherwise I don’t see how we can keep him and pay him when he’s most likely going to reinjure himself. I’ve got to say though, it’s got to take real guts to come back from the same really painful injury three times.
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No doubt in my mind he’ll be back and structure a new contract, something incentive laden.
Even if he’s a legitimate force he should be in a backup or 50/50 role so he can last the season.
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He’s out of here!!!!!!!! OR He’ll be released and resigned at a lower premium. Who the heck is going to pay him close to 4 million to “maybe” play. He hasn’t played in 2 years, and by the time he begins his comeback he will be going on year 3 and 11 total years in the league. Good night sweet prince.
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I hope he comes back, and they put him on the PUP list to start the season so he’s fresh as can be for the playoffs.
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If he is on the pup list and plays part time then he definitely needs to take a huge pay cut.
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He has to take less money. And anyone thinking he will last a full season is delusional. I love what Kris could have brung. But he failed to do it for a full season as a Jet. If he left for good i would’nt miss him.
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Krid will be back, better, bigger and badder than ever, I believe this(like I have a choice).
he helps this team on and off the field, so everybody say a prayer to the football gods that he makes it back.
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Assuming the cap returns there are plenty of ways to get Jenkins an incentivized deal that would not affect the 2011 cap at all, so that is what I would expect the Jets to look at here. He has a roster bonus due this year. I dont know the exact date, but if I had to guess it is the 1st or 2nd day of the new League Year. I would imagine that a decision would need to be made before then.
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if phil taylor is sitting there at #30 the jets have to take him…im sure jenks knows that he pretty much stole money from the jets the last 2 years and would resign at a lower price. having jenks and taylor and throwing in pouha would be a nice combination for next year. ellis wont be back so you can actually line up jenks and taylor at the same time…let me see someone run on us with that much beef out there.
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Without Jenkins, Woody, Jason Taylor, or Bryan Thomas’s contracts on the books. We would be at roughly 102 million. With the tone, Bray, Cro, and Harris taking up roughly 24 more million. We would sit at 126 million before the rookies and role players. How is there any possible way to fit Jenkins in unless he takes a real low salary?
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Bent says:
There’s plenty of room for manuevre. Sanchez’ contract could be restructured to create a bunch of space without his physical salary changing.
Also, don’t forget that you only account for the top 51 and most of those rookies and role players will not earn any more than the salaries they replace.
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The draft guru’s are out yapping away
Mel Kiper, ESPN:
The pick: Rahim Moore, S, UCLA.
Kiper’s take: “I’m split between my own gut and sources on what the Jets could do here. They have to improve the defensive line, but it’s also a deep draft at those positions. Moore represents great value at a need position, the top safety in the draft and a guy who can fly all over the field to intercept passes for coach Rex Ryan, who knows how to get pressure and create forced throws.”
Todd McShay, ESPN:
The pick: Phil Taylor, NT, Baylor
McShay’s take: “The Jets need a reliable presence in the middle of their 3-4 defense, and veteran NT Kris Jenkins has played just seven games combined in the past two seasons. Taylor has the size to anchor the middle of that three-man front and surprisingly good feet for a 350-pound prospect.
Rob Rang, NFLDraftScout.com:
The pick: Phil Taylor, DT, Baylor.
Rang’s take: “Having missed all but seven games over the past two seasons, the Jets can’t afford to continue relying on 10-year veteran nose tackle Kris Jenkins. Taylor has the bulk, strength and makes the flashy plays to catch Rex Ryan’s attention. Taylor is a bit of a gamble, as he’s known to throttle down at times and transferred to Baylor only after being suspended at Penn State, but there is no denying his talent.”
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If we pass on a pass rusher in the first round then I think we have to trade down. We can get a safety in the mid-second round if not the third round. We will not take a DT in the first round, no way.
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Given his age and injury history, I find it hard to image him making it through a full season and the playoffs. Rework his deal to be incentive laden and shorten his season by putting him on the PUP to start. If he’s got anything left, he’ll have time to fully rehab and be ready to make a contribution in November, December, and January.
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Yup. I see it as being similar to Darren Sharper last offseason who still had the talent and production but after having the surgery at his age he wasn’t going anywhere except New Orleans. Then he came on the cheap and went on the PUP list. Hopefully if this is what Jenkins does he will be more productive then Sharper was last season. Personally, when you look at Jenkins stats season by season, there is an interesting pattern of three productive seasons followed by two seasons lost to injury. He has never put together more than three seasons in a row, but he’s remarkably consistent when he does. He has now lost his two seasons to injury and he is on my list for potential comeback player of the year next year, like he was his first year with us. What if he could put together three good seasons before retiring? One would be great, 3 would be unbelievable.
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Prior to his first knee injury, I thought Jenkins was our most important player. I’d love to see him come back, at least 80% of his former self. Don’t know if that’s possible.
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If Jenkins can make a comeback, after two bad injuries in a row, it would be a minor miracle. If he has any chance to come back, he would have to come in much lighter than in the past. As he possesses super-human strength, I would never rule him out.
com on big jenks we need you! like a fat kid need candy!