The Jets have released running back Isaiah Crowell, according to a team announcement. This was the expected move after the club inked Le’Veon Bell to be the new lead back.
We heard this was the plan back in February, and now the Jets are following through. Crowell, 26, matched a career watermark with 4.8 yards per carry last season. He also had six touchdowns on the ground plus 21 catches for 152 yards. While his season was fine on paper, it was a relative disappointment after the Jets signed him to a three-year, $12MM deal last offseason.
His numbers were somewhat inflated by one standout game, as 219 of Crowell’s 685 yards came against the Broncos in a brilliant Week 5 performance. New York ended up placing him on injured reserve with a few weeks to go last season, as he battled a toe injury.
Crowell will now enter a market without too many big-name running backs on it, and he should be able to find a new home relatively easily, although he likely won’t be receiving the $4MM per year he got from the Jets.
An undrafted free agent from Alabama State, Crowell started his career with the Browns and spent his first four years in Cleveland. He was always pretty productive, rushing for at least 600 yards in all four seasons, but for whatever reason the Browns never wanted to commit to him as their full-time running back.
Signing Crowell was a stupid move in the first place.
Its not like Bell was available last season
Jets had like $100 million to spend last year too. It’s not like you get a prize for most unspent cap money.!
Eagles… then fans will say hes better than spending on Bell…
DOLPHINS HET ON THAT WE NEED HIM!
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Eagles will grab him
As I look at his gamelogs at Pro Football Reference, he reminds me of Latavius Murray, in that I think Crowell needs to be in a rotation where he gets 10 or more rushes per game to be effective. That rules him at for Minnesota, in my book, because the team seems committed to Dalvin Cook at their RB1, with only a very limited role for a RB2 (Zach Zenner might have fit that job very nicely, too).