When New York Jets starting LG Brian Winters suffered a season ending torn ACL in the team’s week six loss to the Denver Broncos, it created an opportunity for fellow second year player Oday Aboushi.\u00a0 Some fans were already calling for Aboushi before the injury occurred as a result of Winters’ sub par performance.\u00a0After starting the final twelve games of his rookie season and the first six this year, Winters\u00a0had been struggling mightily\u00a0before being\u00a0placed on season ending\u00a0injured reserve.\u00a0 According to PFF.com,\u00a0only one player on the Jets had been less efficient on offense than Winters and that distinction goes to current back up quarterback Geno Smith.\u00a0 Winters had allowed just one sack through six games but was also credited with sixteen quarterback hurries which was good for last on the team when the injury occurred and Aboushi took over from there.<\/p>\n
For a team whose season is over and will be facing an off-season with plenty of holes to fill, Aboushi’s solid play up to this point may wind up offering an in-house solution.\u00a0 In his first two drafts at General\u00a0 Manager Idzik has drafted heavily at the\u00a0guard position selecting four players to fill out the interior of the Jets offensive line.\u00a0 Of the four, three are converted offensive tackles (Winters, Aboushi, Dakota Dozier) and the fourth, a converted college defensive tackle, William Campbell who is currently a member of the Buffalo Bills practice squad.\u00a0 Having missed on Campbell and possibly Winters, it appears Aboushi is the first of the group to step up and perform at a high enough level to provide some hope for the future at the position.<\/p>\n
Selected by the Jets\u00a0with the eighth pick\u00a0in\u00a0the fifth round out of the University of Virginia, the 6′ 5”\/310 lb lineman was considered by some to be a player who had the size and quickness to\u00a0excel in the NFL, but that his technique would have to be refined before he could be a contributor.\u00a0 After spending his first 18 games watching from the sidelines and being moved from OT to OG this off-season, it appears he’s heading in the right direction.\u00a0He\u00a0has been a significant improvement over Winters who had earned only one positive grade per PFF this season against the Oakland Raiders in the Jets’ home opener.\u00a0 Aboushi on the other hand has already registered two positive outings each of the last two weeks.\u00a0 The Jets will undoubtedly be keeping a close eye on Aboushi as they play out the second half and prepare for the off-season in hopes that the emergence of the big offensive lineman will allow them to take one more item off of what appears to be an endless list of needs to be addressed via free agency and the NFL draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When New York Jets starting LG Brian Winters suffered a season ending torn ACL in the team’s week six loss to the Denver Broncos, it created an opportunity for fellow second year player Oday Aboushi.\u00a0 Some fans were already calling for Aboushi before the injury occurred as a result of Winters’ sub par performance.\u00a0After starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":21016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/helmet.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-71O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27021,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions\/27021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}