After completing his aesculapian residency program, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is hoping to resume his NFL career. The seasoned violative defender precocious went done a workout with the New York Jets, according to NFL Media. Duvernay-Tardif, who opted retired of the 2020 play successful bid to assistance combat COVID-19, played 8 games for the Jets past play aft being traded from Kansas City, wherever helium broke into the NFL successful 2014.
A sixth-round prime successful the 2014 NFL Draft, Duvernay-Tardif broke into the Chiefs' starting lineup successful 2015. He remained determination implicit the adjacent 5 seasons portion helping Kansas City triumph the franchise's 2nd Super Bowl astatine the extremity of the 2019 season. But erstwhile when the COVID-19 pandemic began to aboveground successful 2020, Duvernay-Tardif, a autochthonal of Canada who went to aesculapian schoolhouse successful Montreal, returned location to enactment successful a healthcare facility.
Duvernay-Tardif stepped distant from shot again pursuing the 2021 play successful bid to implicit the aesculapian requirements indispensable to go a physician.
"After 8 years successful the NFL, and I don't privation to dependable pretentious by saying this, but I deliberation I've earned the close to bash what's champion for maine and not conscionable for shot and benignant of stake connected myself a small bit," helium said this summer, via the Associated Press. "I'm truly comfy with the hazard and I'm beauteous assured there's going to beryllium an connection connected the array successful September if I privation it. And if I privation it I'll instrumentality it. If medicine is going good and I consciousness similar I've got to beryllium retired determination successful beforehand of 80,000 radical to play the athletics I love, well, I'll go, but I deliberation I privation it to beryllium much connected my terms."
In New York, Duvernay-Tardif would articulation an violative enactment that presently includes starting guards Laken Tomlinson and Nate Herbig. The Jets don't person overmuch extent down either starter, however, with Dan Feeney presently serving arsenic the team's superior backup astatine some defender spots arsenic good arsenic center.
The Jets' discourtesy is presently 19th successful the NFL successful scoring and passing yards, 18th successful rushing, 29th successful 3rd down ratio and 13th successful reddish portion efficiency. The enactment has provided decent extortion for backmost Zach Wilson, who has been sacked 12 times successful six starts this season. The portion dominated the Bills adjacent the extremity of the Jets' astir caller game, a 20-17 triumph implicit the Bills successful Week 9. The enactment helped James Robinson to tally for a combined 71 yards connected 8 carries connected the Jets' game-winning thrust precocious successful the 4th quarter.
New York is disconnected to a astonishing 6-3 commencement nether 2nd twelvemonth caput manager Robert Saleh. Coming disconnected their bye week, the Jets volition look the Patriots successful New England this weekend.
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