New York Jets designate WR Randall Cobb as 'emergency' quarterback in Week 2
New York Jets wide receiver Randall Cobb will serve as the team’s backup, emergency quarterback for the team’s game Sunday versus the Dallas Cowboys.
Zach Wilson was the only active quarterback on the roster following Aaron Rodgers‘ Achilles injury on Monday Night Football but the team elevated Tim Boyle.
Cobb played quarterback while at Kentucky, both as a traditional signal-caller and as a Wildcat quarterback. He started four games at quarterback as a freshman in 2008 before moving to wide receiver in 2009.
For his college career, he threw 122 pass attempts, completing 62 of them for 689 yards and five touchdowns. He rushed the ball 228 times for 1,313 yards and snagged 144 receptions for 1,017 yards.
Cobb is 1-for-4 for 10 yards passing in his professional career. His completed pass came during the 2017 NFL season with the Packers.
The Jets are going to continue starting Wilson for the foreseeable future but the team will sign another quarterback at some point to be his backup.
“I want to make it very clear, Zach’s our quarterback,” Jets head coach Robert Saleh said, per NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport. “We have a lot of faith in Zach. We’re rolling with Zach and excited for him.”
If Cobb gets into the game at quarterback, he will be going up against his former head coach in Mike McCarthy. McCarthy, Cobb and Rodgers were all together in Green Bay from 2011-2018.
McCarthy addressed the injury to Rodgers this week, which brought back memories of their time together in Wisconsin.
“You were hoping it wasn’t serious,” McCarthy said, via DallasCowboys.com. “It kinda reminded me of a play in 2018 against the Bears early in the game he went in, told me on the headset he was done for the year. He had a fracture in his knee joint. And he came out at halftime and threw three touchdowns and won the game and played the rest of the year. That’s what I was hoping was going to happen.”