The standout play in what was a pretty mundane morning practice of training camp (hey, it’s the first one) was a Danny Woodhead run during 7-on-7 drills.

Woodhead, the rookie running back, took the handoff and shot through a hole off left guard for a couple of yards before being wrapped up. In those drills, which are meant to be slightly more physical than a game of two-hand touch after school,… More

Today's Jets OTA (Organized Team Activity) was impacted by a little EWA (Extreme Weather Activity). Midway through the session, a foreboding patch of dark gray clouds opened up over the Jets' upper grass practice field. For 10 minutes, it poured cold rain and even hail.

Reporters and even some team personnel headed for cover. I tried to tough it out but, wearing the same clothes that I expected t… More

The air was a little brisk, in the upper 50s perhaps, for this morning's third practice of the Jets' weekend rookie minicamp, leading to this exchange between defensive coaches:

Bryan Cox: "Bob, you look cold."

Bob Sutton: "It's linemen's weather."

It was also special teams weather, at least for much of the 40 minutes of media availability. And while the Jets' 50 draft picks, undrafted free age… More

It's the most wonderful time of the year ... well, if you're a football coach, it's at least one of them.

Here's how poetically head coach Eric Mangini waxed at his afternoon news conference about the Jets rookie minicamp that opened with two practices today:

"All the hard work we put in as an organization into the draft, so many people working on it throughout the whole off-season — really thro… More

The Jets' rookie minicamp is under way. The draft choices, undrafted free agents and tryouts had meetings this morning, then went out for a morning practice that was not open to the media. The first access reporters will have to the Jets newbies will be during a 45-minute locker room session that begins soon after noon.

I won't wait that long to provide the list of the 10 undrafted free agents. T… More