This isn’t a surprise at all.
The Jets had the worst passing game in the NFL from a statistical standpoint, and with numbers like that comes the immediate need for an upgrade.
According to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, the Jets are preparing for free agency, and already have their eyes on Eagles wide-out Jeremy Maclin, and the Steelers Emmanuel Sanders.
The Daily News has learned that the Jets covet free agent wide receivers Jeremy Maclin and Emmanuel Sanders with the hope that one or both can help revamp the league’s 31st-ranked passing offense from last season.
Jets receivers were among the league’s worst in 2013. Geno Smith’s erratic rookie season can be attributed, in part, to the lack of difference makers in the passing game.
Geno Smith can’t take the next step as a passer without getting an upgrade on the outside. Smith only threw seven touchdown passes to Jets wideouts last season.
Cutting Santonio Holmes will add more than $8 million to their free agency war chest.