New York Jets operating again Dalvin Cook instructed reporters Thursday he hasn’t but requested common supervisor Joe Douglas for a trade regardless of Cook’s restricted function within the group’s offense.
“That’s something that I have to sit down and talk with my agent and [Douglas] about,” Cook defined, per Alex Smith of SNY. “But for me, I’ll let the business side handle the business side…but it’s something I can’t control, that my name is being floated around in trade rumors. It might be a good thing, it might be a bad thing, you never know.”
Cook signed a one-year contract reportedly price as much as $8.6M with the Jets in August and spoke later that month in regards to the membership embracing a “realistic” aim of successful the Super Bowl. That was earlier than beginning quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles in Week 1 and earlier than Cook recorded 109 speeding yards on 39 carries (a mean of 2.8 yards per try) throughout his first six video games with the group.
Brian Costello of the New York Post reported Wednesday that he does not assume “Douglas would hang up the phone if a team called about Cook” ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline. Costello added, nevertheless, that he “can’t see Douglas giving Cook away” for pennies on the greenback because the 3-3 Jets look to stay in playoff rivalry with Zach Wilson main the offense in Rodgers’ place.
“Of course, it’s frustrating,” Cook acknowledged about his state of affairs. “I’m an honest person. I work, I want to play. That’s just anybody. Yeah, it’s frustrating because it’s new for me. I come from getting the ball 20 times a game or however many times. I come from that, but yeah, of course, it’s frustrating but it’s something that I’ve been adapting to.”
Cook at all times was going to take a backseat to Breece Hall until the second-year professional skilled a setback associated to the torn ACL he suffered in October 2022. As famous by ESPN stats, Hall comes off New York’s bye ranked ninth within the league with 426 speeding yards on the season, and he is averaging a ridiculous 6.5 yards per carry.
The Jets enter this Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the 2-5 New York Giants ranked thirtieth in complete offense with a mean of 277.0 yards per recreation, so Gang Green most likely should not ship Cook out of city until Douglas feels the 28-year-old is not an excellent slot in an offense that options Wilson within the lineup.
“Whenever those carries come my way, I’m going to be ready to explode and be ready to be Dalvin,” Cook vowed.
Whether or not such carries will come his means in opposition to the Giants shall be seen.
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