E-Boland & Gang Green

By Tom Rock

With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Newsday is projecting that the Jets have placed OL Trey Teague on IR, released OL Norm Katnik from the practice squad, and signed DT Keyonta Marshall to the practice squad.

Sorry for the election night terminology, just got caught up in watching the results trickle in. But the moves were reported at newyorkjets.com this evening, which may be as much of a confirmation as can be made until Coach Mangini makes his daily housekeeping announcement Wednesday morning. Not much startling in the practice squad switcheroo (is there ever?). Katnik became expendable when the Jets signed rookie T Na’Shan Goddard last week, and the Jets have spent the year on the lookout for beef up the middle (Marshall is listed at 325).

But the end of the Trey Teague mystery seems a bit odd. The guy broke his ankle during the summer, was put on the PUP list at the beginning of training camp, then was taken off when the regular season began. That meant the Jets thought he would be able to play within those first six weeks (or they would have kept him on PUP, like some other running back they had). Teague was never activated for any games, and although he practiced, he has obviously not made enough progress to continue trying to come back this season.

Teague was signed this season to replace C Kevin Mawae, a task that ultimately fell to rookie Nick Mangold (who has done a very solid job). With the O-line pretty well set – there have not been any changes since Pete Kendall returned to action in Week 4 from a hamstring injury – the Jets probably figured it would be better to shut Teague down than hang onto him as an insurance policy against other injuries. They still have Wade Smith, Adrian Jones and now Goddard to patch things up if it gets hairy.

Andrew Gross of the Journal-News has been hammering away on the Teague Storyline for a few weeks now. I’m sure, for him, this day is something akin to the final page of an Agatha Christie novel. Spoiler alert: All of the passengers on the Orient Express worked together to end Teague’s season!