Based on the eye test, Jermaine Kearse’s transition from Seattle to New York has been fairly seamless. In five games so far with the Green and White, the sixth-year player leads the Jets with 22 receptions and three touchdowns. Kearse is also catching a career-high 78.6% of balls thrown his way. However, the Washington-born wideout admits that the journey from the West Coast to the East Coast wasn’t as simple as X’s and O’s.
Kearse was traded to the Jets on September 1, only nine days prior to the team’s season opener against the Bills. It was not only a new team and a new offense for the wide receiver, but it would mark the first time he would take up residence outside the Pacific Northwest.