{"id":40116,"date":"2018-03-13T20:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=40116"},"modified":"2018-03-13T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:28:56","slug":"josh-mccown-re-signs-new-york-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/03\/13\/josh-mccown-re-signs-new-york-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh McCown Re-Signs with New York Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets<\/a> are bringing back their starting quarterback from last year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McCoJo01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh McCown<\/a><\/strong> has reportedly agreed to sign a one-year, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/973659573021274118\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$10 million\u00a0deal<\/a>\u00a0with them. While it is unclear right now what his role with the team will be in 2018, he will be playing regardless\u00a0in the Meadowlands again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Jets<\/a> agreed to terms to bring back QB Josh McCown, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeMcCartney7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MikeMcCartney7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/973659269152301057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Josh McCown Agrees to One-Year, $10 Million Deal with New York Jets<\/h1>\n<p>McCown is a rare case in the NFL of going from virtually unknown backup to well-known\u00a0backup and occasional starter.\u00a0He is 38 and the Jets are his tenth team. However, he has been out regularly on the field for one team or another the last five\u00a0years. The Jets will have\u00a0some consistency at the quarterback position by bringing him back.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being 38, his 2017 season was arguably the best of his\u00a0career. In 13 games, he passed for 2,927 yards, 18 touchdowns and nine interceptions while also scoring five rushing touchdowns. He took a Jets team that was expected to be a bottom dweller in 2017 and kept them competitive. He went 5-8 with them as a starter before he got injured. The highlight of his season was a shootout victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, which he capped with a go-ahead rushing touchdown in the final minutes.<\/p>\n<p>McCown played college for three years at Southern Methodist University in Dallas from 1998-2000. He transferred to Sam Houston State for his senior year. While there, he was named First-Team All-SFL (Southland Conference) and the SFL Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>He was drafted in 2002 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> in the third round. He spent four years there before he began journeying around the league. During a period from 2006 to 2011, he played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/lions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Lions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Raiders<\/a>,\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>. He also had brief stints with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/49ers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, being cut before the season started both times. In 2013 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Bears<\/a> he had a breakout season due to injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CutlJa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jay Cutler<\/strong><\/a>, allowing him to get starting jobs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/browns\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> over the next few years before signing with the Jets in 2017. In his career, he has 97 touchdown passes, 78 interceptions, and 13 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY &#8211; DECEMBER 03: Josh McCown #15 of the New York Jets celebrates the two point conversion in the fourth quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs on December 03, 2017 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.The New York Jets defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 38-31. (Photo by Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh McCown is returning to the New York Jets in 2018. He had arguably his best season in 2017 with 18 touchdown passes and 9 interceptions in 13 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2355,"featured_media":34629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[42,61,593,218,40],"class_list":["post-40116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-jets","tag-chicago-bears","tag-football","tag-josh-mccown","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}