Sam Darnold is set to be the latest potential quarterback savior for the New York, ready to start Monday’s regular-season opener at Detroit (7:10 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Below, we take a look down the green memory lane to see how other prominent Jets throwers worked out in their starting debuts.
9/25/65: Joe Namath
19-40, 287 yards, 2 TD’s, 2 INT’s, 67.4 rating (L 33-21 @ Buffalo)
Despite emerging victorious in the Namath sweepstakes against the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals, the AFL Jets nonetheless sat him behind second-year thrower Mike Taliaferro to open the 1965 campaign.