{"id":38909,"date":"2018-04-12T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=38909"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:17:08","slug":"new-york-jets-mauldin-ready-to-get-after-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2018\/04\/12\/new-york-jets-mauldin-ready-to-get-after-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Mauldin says he&#8217;s &#8220;Beyond Ready&#8221; for Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat contrary to his head coach&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jets\/2018\/03\/28\/9-jets-takeaways-nfl-owners-meetings-including-todd-bowles-baker-mayfield\/465976002\/\"><strong>comments<\/strong><\/a> at the NFL owners meetings last month when Todd Bowles wasn&#8217;t completely clear on the current status of Jets linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin, the linebacker elaborated on his readiness via his personal twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LozoMauldinIV\/status\/984257817711464450<\/p>\n<p>After Bowles said Mauldin is &#8220;moving around a lot better&#8221;, he went on to say he was merely &#8220;hopeful&#8221; that Mauldin would be able to participate in spring workouts.<\/p>\n<p>Mauldin tweeted out earlier today that he&#8217;s &#8220;far beyond ready&#8221; with a picture of himself celebrating on the field at MetLife Stadium.\u00a0 Perhaps Mauldin is referring to being mentally ready versus physically ready, so we&#8217;ll have to wait until workouts to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The former Louisville linebacker has had an up and down time with Gang Green through his first three pro seasons.\u00a0 Used as a situational pass rusher as a rookie, Mauldin looked impressive at times, picking up 4 sacks in limited action.\u00a0 In year two, he played in roughly 40% of the team&#8217;s defensive snaps in weeks 1 and 2, but that number never hit 30% in the four weeks that followed and Mauldin played a season-low 6 snaps in week four according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MaulLo00\/fantasy\/2016\"><strong>pro-football reference<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a return to a more prominent role from weeks 7 through 11, Mauldin was out for the season with an injury following a week 11 loss to the New England Patriots, and he hasn&#8217;t played a regular season snap since, missing the entire 2017 season with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager Mike Maccagnan is hoping for a strong return from Mauldin as injuries to his second round pick (WR Devin Smith) and Mauldin (3rd round), have rendered his first draft with the Jets a failure beyond Leonard Williams whom he took with the sixth overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat contrary to his head coach&#8217;s comments at the NFL owners meetings last month when Todd Bowles wasn&#8217;t completely clear on the current status of Jets linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin, the linebacker elaborated on his readiness via his personal twitter account. https:\/\/twitter.com\/LozoMauldinIV\/status\/984257817711464450 After Bowles said Mauldin is &#8220;moving around a lot better&#8221;, he went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":34636,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2130.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-a7z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909","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=38909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38910,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38909\/revisions\/38910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}