Jordan Travis' Agent: Jets 'Tried to Rush' QB Back From Ankle Injury, Caused Setback

New York Jets quarterback Jordan Travis had a rookie year to forget in 2024, and his agent said the team made it worse because it rushed him back from injury.

"His rehab with the Jets was not the best," Deiric Jackson told ESPN's Rich Cimini. "They tried to rush him. It was too fast. There was pressure on the coaching staff and they tried to get him going sooner than the timeline really was. That caused the setback, and we had to shut him down completely."

New York selected Travis with a fifth-round pick after his impressive collegiate career at Florida State ended because of an ankle injury that cost him the finishing stretch of his final season.

Travis spent the entirety of his rookie year on the non-football injury list and never even practiced, and Cimini noted it was believed he "experienced swelling and soreness in his surgically repaired left ankle."

The Jets said they followed a rehab plan created by the quarterback's surgeon, Robert Anderson, although Jackson provided some hope and said "I'm optimistic" regarding the 2025 campaign.

Travis will be working with a new regime in New York, as the team hired new head coach Aaron Glenn and new general manager Darren Mougey this offseason. That is probably a welcome development for the quarterback considering the comments from his agent.

The Florida State product impressed in his final year with the Seminoles as the 2023 ACC Player of the Year. They went undefeated during the regular season and won the ACC championship, although they were left out of the College Football Playoff in part because of concern about how competitive they would be after their starting quarterback suffered the ankle injury and was ruled out.

He completed 63.9 percent of his passes for 2,756 yards, 20 touchdowns and two interceptions while adding 176 yards and seven scores as a runner and might have been an earlier draft pick were it not for the injury.

Perhaps he will now have a chance to factor in the Jets' quarterback competition since the team is moving on from Aaron Rodgers.