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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — More than 600 days will have passed from the last time Le’Veon Bell carried the football in an N.F.L. game to the first time he rushes for his new team, the Jets.
Adam Gase, the Jets’ first-year head coach, said this week that he did not expect the running back to play in the preseason. So Bell, who missed all of last season in a salary dispute with the Pittsburgh Steelers, will see his first action on Sept. 8, when the Jets play the Buffalo Bills in the season opener.