Jets QB Jordan Travis retires from soccer resulting from damage
The indicators surrounding Jordan Travis have been ominous for months based mostly on the Jets being so mum when requested about his standing.
Now we all know why.
The previous Florida State star quarterback, who was drafted by the Jets within the fifth spherical in 2024, on Wednesday knowledgeable the crew he’s retiring.
It’s a tragic ending for the 24-year-old Travis, who had such promise in faculty earlier than sustaining a ugly damage to his left leg.
He retired with out enjoying an NFL recreation — preseason or common season.
Travis’ cause for retiring was based mostly on docs’ recommendation as he’s spent some 17 months making an attempt to rehabilitate his badly injured left ankle, which was mangled in a recreation towards North Alabama on Nov. 18, 2023 on a play that regarded like a hip-drop deal with.
The Jets took a flier on Travis with the 171st choose within the 2024 draft, in hopes he’d be capable to rehab the leg and turn out to be an eventual backup or perhaps a starter.
The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Travis, who completed fifth within the Heisman Trophy voting regardless of the damage in ’23, was a younger prospect who was anticipated to go a lot increased within the draft if not for the damage.
He had accomplished 63.9 p.c of his passes with 20 touchdowns and two interceptions whereas main Florida State to an 11-0 file on the time of his damage.
However the damage modified the whole lot.
“On November 18, 2023, my life took an sudden flip,” Travis stated in a publish on his X social-media account Wednesday. “I gave the whole lot I needed to the rehab course of however regardless of all my efforts, my leg by no means responded the way in which we hoped. After a lot prayer and session with the docs, medical consultants and my agent, I’ve been medically suggested to retire from the sport I like so deeply.”
Travis, who’ll be positioned on the reserve/retired checklist, rehabbed throughout rookie minicamp final spring and was positioned on the non-football damage checklist (NFI) in the beginning of coaching camp, on July 23, 2024.
He was later positioned on the reserve/not-football checklist on Aug. 27, 2024.
Robert Saleh and Jeff Ulbrich, Saleh’s interim substitute as Jets head coach, have been at all times cautious when requested about Travis’ progress, which felt like there have been extra setbacks than progress.
Earlier this offseason, new Jets basic supervisor Darren Mougey was requested about Travis and declined to elaborate on his progress or his standing.
“Jordan has knowledgeable us of his intent to retire because of the damage he sustained whereas at Florida State,” Mougey stated Wednesday in an announcement. “It’s unlucky that he was unable to get again on the sphere after working so arduous. We help his choice and need him solely the perfect.”
There was some controversy surrounding Travis when his agent, Deiric Jackson, in March was vital of the Jets, telling ESPN, “His rehab with the Jets was not the perfect. They tried to hurry him. It was too quick. There was stress on the teaching employees, they usually tried to get him going prior to the timeline actually was. That brought on the setback, and we needed to shut him down utterly.”
Mougey and new coach Aaron Glenn, after all, weren’t with the crew when Jackson was making these claims.
Jackson, too, by no means specified the character of the setback, although on the time of the ESPN interview, he stated he was “optimistic” that Travis could be prepared for the 2025 season.
Then got here Wednesday, when Travis, who in his 46 video games at FSU threw for 8,644 yards, 65 TDs and solely 19 INTs and completed his faculty profession with 17 consecutive wins, introduced he was retiring on a hand-written letter on X.
Within the letter, he thanked the Jets “for believing in me and offering me with the chance to dwell out the last word dream.”
“It’s loopy how briskly life can change. This isn’t the ending I had ever imagined, however I do belief the Lord’s plan above all else.”
