When New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered his devastating Achilles injury in the team’s season-opening loss to the Buffalo Bills in Week 1, coach Robert Saleh had the opportunity to re-sign veteran quarterback Joe Flacco to fill in for the four-time NFL MVP.
Flacco spent the better part of three seasons with the Jets as a backup to Sam Darnold in 2020, quarterbacks Mike White and Josh Johnson in ’21 and Zach Wilson in ’22. In that time, Flacco played in 12 games and threw for 2,253 yards, 14 touchdowns and six interceptions.
But rather than call Flacco for a potential return to The Big Apple, Saleh elected to start Wilson with Trevor Siemian and Brett Rypien as the team’s backup signal-callers. When Saleh was asked why he didn’t re-sign Flacco, he said it was merely a “decision” the franchise made based on things that were already in place prior to the season.
