Linebacker CJ Mosley made quite the debut on Sunday for the New York Jets, but a late-game groin injury sidelined the former Baltimore Raven from making a fourth-quarter impact in the narrow home loss.
The 27-year-old Mosley signed a five-year, $85 million contract with Gang Green in the offseason as a free agent, ending his previous five-year tenure with the Ravens, who had selected him in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
The four-time Pro-Bowl linebacker turned heads with an immediate impact on the field for a lackluster Jets defense. Mosley accounted for an interception, five sacks, including a pick-six on Buffalo Bills second-year quarterback Josh Allen.
Mosley had an MRI completed on Monday, though, and was later cleared to play in the Jets' Week 2 Monday Night Football matchup with Baker Mayfield and the 0-1 Cleveland Browns.
Per Spencer Aber in USA Today Sports' Jets Wire, Mosley expects to play next week. The extra day will undoubtedly help, too.
Earlier in the day, Mosley told reporters the groin injury only “hurts a little bit,” according to the New York Post's Greg Joyce.
“I’m alright right now. It hurts a little bit to plant, so that’s pretty much why I couldn’t go back in.” Said he hasn’t had any tests done yet but his plan right now is to play next week.
Mosley covered a ton of ground for the Jets, who have a terrible secondary headed by cornerback Trumaine Johnson. Third-year safeties Marcus Maye and Jamal Adams pose to be solid fixtures in the defense, but without Mosley, the New York once-fearsome defense is looking like easy money.
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