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The New York Jets tight end was dealing with demons in his personal life, and his body was betraying him. Just three years into his NFL career, Seferian-Jenkins’ life was spinning out of control.

”I’m lucky to be here,” he said after practice earlier this week. ”The last time I played the Patriots, I pulled my hamstring and I thought that was the last time I was ever going to play football. I’m thankful for the opportunity that I was able to play them and I’m thankful for everything that’s happened.”

Just 10 months after that game in New England, Seferian-Jenkins is in the middle of a massive comeback story.

On the field – and, more importantly, off it.

He’s second on the team with 23 catches, already a career high despite him being suspended the first two games of the season for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy last year.

”He worked on himself all offseason, and that’s tough to do, especially when you have things go bad for you Sam Hubbard Super Bowl LI Jersey ,” coach Todd Bowles said. ”But I’m happy for him. He’s the kind of guy you root for.”

That hasn’t always been the case for the 25-year-old Seferian-Jenkins, who a year ago was dealing with having been arrested for a DUI – resulting in the two-game suspension – and subsequently getting cut by Tampa Bay after being a second-round pick out of the University of Washington in the 2014 draft.

The Jets took a chance on him, claiming him off waivers and giving him an opportunity to clean up his life and rejuvenate what was once a promising career.

He made little impact on the offense last season, though, finishing with just 10 catches for 110 yards while dealing with a few injuries. But the hamstring issue that ended his season in Week 16 became a defining moment for him.

”I just felt like I was done playing,” Seferian-Jenkins recalled. ”Life was like a really hard thing for me to grasp and deal with, personally. I know a lot of people can relate to that, how their life sometimes is hard. You have difficult patches in life and sometimes you don’t feel like you can get through those. I just felt like that at that point in my life, I was like, I wanted to get my life together more than anything.

”If that meant not playing football anymore, that meant not playing football anymore.”

Instead Authentic Kevin Hogan Jersey , football became part of the rehabilitation process for Seferian-Jenkins.

He followed a strict plan to beat his alcohol addiction, and that included making himself healthier, both physically and mentally. The big tight end went out to the Las Vegas area during the offseason and worked out several times a week, reshaping his body and dropping 30-plus pounds from his 6-foot-5 frame.

By the time he showed up for offseason workouts with his teammates this spring, he looked like a different guy. At 262 pounds, he was lighter, faster and stronger.

”As a person, I’m happy,” he said. ”I’ve done all those things and football’s never really been a hard thing for me. It’s like the off-the-field stuff like life that’s kind of been the tough thing for me. Once I got that handled, I got the life part of it figured out, the football stuff’s easy.”

Seferian-Jenkins opened up during the spring about his battles with alcohol addiction and the struggles he had in the past. He focuses now only on the present.

During the spring Wholesale Thomas Rawls Jersey , Seferian-Jenkins declared that he would have the best season of his NFL career. It took just four games for him to achieve that goal.

”I know that I wasn’t fulfilling what I was capable of in the past, but right now, I’m here and I don’t want to say I’m content,” he said. ”I’ve done some good things. I’ve definitely missed some opportunities since I’ve been back. There’s a bunch of room to improve and so many things I can improve on, which is really cool.”

Those things include run blocking, pass blocking, running routes and route discipline – tools of the trade.

He has 152 yards receiving and two touchdowns this season while becoming an integral part of John Morton’s offense. Seferian-Jenkins’ 23 catches are just three fewer than Jets tight ends had in the past two seasons combined. In the past four weeks, he leads all NFL tight ends in receptions during that span.

”It’s a complete 180 from where he was,” said quarterback Josh McCown, who played with him in Tampa Bay in 2014. ”The biggest thing is just his attitude, his overall approach when it comes to work and his consistency.”

Seferian-Jenkins nearly had his third TD catch of the season – and second of the game – in the Jets’ 24-17 loss to the Patriots last Sunday. But his 4-yard score was overturned and called a fumble and a touchback as officials ruled that he briefly lost control of the ball and didn’t regain control until he was out of bounds in the end zone.

He thought he scored Sylvester Williams Jersey Elite , but never criticized the officials, saying he needed to work on controlling the ball better.

By Wednesday, Seferian-Jenkins was done answering questions about the play, preferring instead to focus on the Jets’ matchup with the Dolphins in Miami on Sunday.

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Garoppolo is learning quickly. He did well enough last week to be able to serve as the backup in case Beathard got hurt. Shanahan said he was confident in calling about 25 run plays and 20 passes if Garoppolo had been forced into action.

While Beathard got the bulk of the starter’s work in practice Wednesday, Garoppolo is learning more of the offense and could get more practice time as the week progresses.

But Beathard remains the starter for now.

”I don’t want to throw a guy into a situation that’s tough to succeed in,” Shanahan said. ”It’s very tough when some of the stuff we are going through injury-wise, but it’s not just that. It’s also throwing a guy in that situation with his lack of reps and lack of experience.”

The 49ers made a big investment in Garoppolo, trading a 2018 second-round pick to New England last week to acquire the quarterback they hope can lead a turnaround for a struggling franchise.

Garoppolo showed some promise last year when he made two starts for the Patriots in place of a suspended Tom Brady. He completed 42 of 59 passes for 496 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions in wins against Arizona and Miami. He got hurt in the second quarter of his second start and has thrown just four passes since then.

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No quarterback has been blitzed on more pass plays the past three weeks than Beathard, according to SportRadar, as defenses are testing the rookie quarterback playing behind the suspect line. He has completed just 16 of 39 passes for 173 yards against the blitz in those games, while getting sacked four times.

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”I just don’t listen to it,” he said. ”People can say this or that. I’ve heard worse things said about me. Whether it’s this or that, going back to the college days you just don’t listen to the outside stuff. All I know is I’m trying to do my best and get better. The coaches have the team’s best interest in mind. I trust them and trust my team to get back to work this week and work to get a win.”

NOTES: LT Joe Staley returned to practice on a limited basis for the first time since breaking an orbital bone two weeks ago in Philadelphia. … DL Tank Carradine (ankle) returned to practice and is the second player designated to come off IR. He got hurt in Week 3 and can be added to the active roster in two weeks.

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With nary a start in his rookie season and the Ravens loaded with talent at running back, Collins appeared destined for a long wait.

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He was cut by the Seahawks on Sept. 2, grabbed by the Ravens three days later and taking handoffs from Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco 12 days after that.

Collins fumbled in two of his first three starts – and has not lost the ball since.

”No running back wants to fumble. It was something I personally wanted to correct,” Collins said. ”My running backs coach (Thomas Hammock) does a great job of hounding me about it every chance when we’re watching film.”

Collins has 570 yards on 113 carries, a robust 5.0 average that ranks sixth in the NFL.

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Collins scored his first touchdown with Baltimore (5-5) last Sunday in a 23-0 win over Green Bay. After the score, he broke into an Irish dance, a skill he picked up before the 2016 NFL draft to hone his footwork.

Collins’ teammates reveled in the celebration that was long time coming.

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He received a game ball, even though he was held to 49 yards on a career-high 20 carries. He did, however, have four catches for 22 yards.

”I’ve worked hard,” Collins said. ”For those guys to look at me and feel like I deserve a game ball, it’s just a good feeling to have their support behind me.”

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Both teams are also looking to bounce back from disappointing losses.

The Ravens (2-1) were demolished by the Jacksonville Jaguars 44-7 in London last week. The Steelers (2-1) were stunned 23-17 in overtime by the Bears in Chicago.

Still, neither team expects to have any type of carryover from those games, especially with the history between the two franchises.

Twelve of the past 18 matchups between Baltimore and Pittsburgh were decided by three points or fewer.

“We need to win,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday. “All these wins count the same, but obviously this is a division game. Division wins are a little more important. You’re trying to win a division championship. That’s the goal. Last week? We’re past it. We’re done with it. But don’t think that it doesn’t stick in your craw.”

Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco is trying to recover from the worst game of his career. He completed eight of 18 pass attempts for a career-worst 28 yards with two interceptions against the Jaguars. Flacco finished with a passer rating of 12.0.

Baltimore enters the game with an offense ranked last in the league in total yards per game.

“I think we’re getting ahead of ourselves when we all of a sudden start saying we haven’t played well for three weeks,” Flacco said. “We played terribly last week. There’s no way around that. But the other two weeks, we did what we had to do to win football games. I don’t think that’s anything that we can hang our head over.”

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Pittsburgh is ranked third in the league in total defense and second against the pass.

“We have had a lot of significant confrontations downfield in the history of the series,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. “They are the Ravens’ offense. We know that they are capable of big strikes. They are a balanced group. They do a good job of keeping you off balance.

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“If I play better in that game, I feel we win the game,” Roethlisberger said Wednesday. “If I play better in the first two weeks, then we’re going to score more points and have a productive offense and we don’t have to answer questions about why our offense isn’t where it is.”

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Several Ravens players took a knee, and the Steelers, with the exception of offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva, stayed in the locker room during the anthem.

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The Steelers lead the all-time regular season series 22-20. Pittsburgh snapped a three-game losing streak against the Ravens with a 31-27 victory on Christmas that also clinched the AFC North title last season. However, the Steelers have not won in Baltimore since Dec. 2, 2012.

The Steelers have won three of the teams’ four postseason meetings.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Saints quarterback Drew Brees says he’s keeping long-term career goals to himself after signing a new two-year contract extension.

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Brees turned 39 last Jan. 15 and is entering his 18th NFL season – one that holds promise for a rejuvenated franchise that returned to the playoffs from the first time in four seasons in 2017.

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Brees said other NFL teams did reach out to him during a very brief period when teams were permitted to begin contacting players with expiring contracts before free agency officially began on Wednesday afternoon.

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”It felt a little weird and again my mindset has always been that I will be playing for the Saints and I’m going to retire a Saint,” Brees said. ”It’s not like I was really taking any of them seriously, but just to hear the offers (from other teams) and feel the attention that was interesting.”

The Saints narrowly missed advancing to the NFC title game this past season when they fell at Minnesota on a 61-yard Vikings touchdown as time expired.

After three consecutive 7-9 seasons from 204-2016, the Saints’ returned to contention in large part because of considerable contributions from first- and second-year players such as cornerback Marshon Lattimore, The Associated Press defensive rookie of the year, and Alvin Kamara, the offensive rookie of the year.

”Certainly, you look at the potential that we have in our young players and you should feel excited if they continue to progress 49ers Dante Pettis Jersey ,” Brees said.

His contract done, Brees can now go back to his typical offseason family life in southern California, where he keeps an offseason home, and his offseason training routine until the resumption of voluntary offseason workouts in New Orleans this spring.

The same day Brees agreed to his new contract, the father of four was overseeing a practice as coach of a first-grade flag football team.

”Put in a little bit of no-huddle, a little bit of hurry-up offense,” Brees said. ”We have a package called Wildcat and a package called Volunteer and then a package called Quad. I’m feeling pretty good about those no-huddle packages. … That was kind of the highlight of my day yesterday – after signing the contract.”

Notes: Brees commented on the potential he sees in reserve quarterback Taysom Hill, currently the only other quarterback on the roster. ”If you take his measurables and his intangibles http://www.houstontexansteamonline.com/martinas-rankin-jersey , I think he does have everything it takes to be a great player,” Brees said of Hill, who is entering his second NFL season out of BYU. ”This offseason he’ll get a chance to really dive into our system.”

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The 41-year-old former Czech forward played his final game in 2016, finishing a 20-year career in New Jersey with two Stanley Cup championships and most of the team’s scoring records.

”For someone growing up in Eastern Europe, in a communist country, there’s no way I could have ever dreamed of this day,” said Elias, whose eyes welled with tears during his speech that was interrupted several times by chants of ”Paddy! Paddy!”

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The podium on the ice was shaped as a puck with the No. 26 on it, and it was by surrounded by other super-sized pucks with the same number and two trophies, the Stanley Cup and The Prince of Wales trophy, presented to the Eastern Conference winner.

Elias played on four conference champions Authentic Tremaine Edmunds Jersey , scoring the winning goal in Game 7 against Philadelphia in 2000.

Elias is the first European player to have his number retired by the Devils, and the first forward. Defensemen Scott Stevens (No. 4), Scott Niedermayer (No. 27) and Ken Daneyko (No. 3) and goaltender Martin Brodeur (No. 30) also had their jerseys retired. All four were in attendance with Brodeur, of course, getting the biggest ovation.

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SEATTLE (AP) Urgency is rarely the overwhelming feeling within the Seattle Seahawks. It’s usually a calm confidence surrounding them.

This year is a bit different. There is some urgency built not out of worry but of opportunity Authentic Scott Kazmir Jersey , realizing Seattle can again be the class of the NFC and possibly find its way back to another Super Bowl.

The latest example was this week’s trade for left tackle Duane Brown, a move to solidify the biggest issue for the Seahawks moving forward beginning with Sunday’s game against Washington.

When personnel issues have arisen in the past, the Seahawks (5-2) haven’t been this aggressive in trying to find fixes. The first move came before the season even began when Seattle acquired defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson from the New York Jets when there was a need on the defensive line. Seattle also grabbed Justin Coleman from New England, a move that seemed like another transaction but has proven vital as Coleman has become the Seahawks nickel cornerback.

And then came the move for Brown, yet another sign of how serious the Seahawks are approaching this opportunity.

”It says a lot about what our front office thinks of our team right now and what they think of us moving forward,” Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman said. ”I think they think this is our window, this is our chance to take it by the reigns and they are doing everything they can to put us in position to be successful and make us a championship team. Any perceived weaknesses, they are doing their best to shore up.”

Brown is a major upgrade for Seattle’s offensive line and will get tested right away with the Redskins and top pass rusher Ryan Kerrigan. Washington (3-4) has lost three of four and in each of the three losses the Redskins have been run over. Washington allowed 168 yards rushing to Kansas City; 127 to Philadelphia; and a season-high 169 last week to Dallas. In Washington’s three victories this season Lions Frank Ragnow Jersey , it’s allowing just 71.3 yards per game rushing.

Back-to-back divisional losses and attrition on the injury front is testing the Redskins’ morale. Already, four players are on injured reserve, and more than a dozen have uncertain statuses to play Sunday. Inside the locker room, there’s a shortage of bodies from players not practicing, but no one’s saying the mood is down.

”We understand guys are going to get banged up, and that’s when other guys get opportunities to make a name for themselves,” said safety DeAngelo Hall, who is close to being activated from the physically unable to perform list. ”We’re going to keep rooting for you Cheap Isaac Yiadom Jersey , I’m hoping you get healthy, but it’s my time to go out there and play.”

Here’s what else to watch as Seattle goes for its third straight win over Washington:

EDDIE’S UP: After rotating running backs through the first seven games and seeing minimal results, the Seahawks intend to give Eddie Lacy first crack at being the featured running back against the Redskins.

The Seahawks are coming off one of the worst rushing games in franchise history, finishing with 33 yards rushing. Seattle’s running backs had 5 yards on 16 carries. The Seahawks would like to be balanced offensively and intend on giving Lacy the carries needed to try and establish a rhythm.

O-LINE SHUFFLE: Injuries along Washington’s offensive line could mean a starting front of T.J. Clemmings, Arie Kouandjio, rookies Chase Roullier and Tyler Catalina and banged-up Morgan Moses, who’s playing with two sprained ankles.

The noise in Seattle is one factor along with getting linemen used to playing with each other.

”They’re learning. It’s new to them,” coach Jay Gruden said. ”It’s just about communication Jets Clive Walford Jersey , playing together, trying to play in unison, which is hard to do at this stage of the season, but I think (offensive line coaches) are getting them ready to go.”

STAYING UP WITH THE JONSES: Defensive lineman Matt Ioannidis’ broken hand pushed the Redskins to sign veteran Arthur Jones, who will join the rotation immediately.

The 31-year-old has played 63 NFL games, most recently with Indianapolis last season.

”He brings that experience,” defensive lineman Ziggy Hood said. ”All he has to do is get the playbook down, learn the calls Cheap Darius Leonard Jersey , learn the terminology and then just let his technique take over from there.”

SAFETY VALVE: Seattle’s biggest injury question surrounds free safety Earl Thomas, who suffered a strained hamstring late in the loss to Houston.

The Seahawks are clearly a different defense when Thomas is not on the field and it was highlighted last year when he missed the final four games of the regular season with a broken leg. Seattle has more depth in the secondary now than a year ago and would turn to Bradley McDougald to start if Thomas can’t go.

”He is just a really, really good football player to be able to set up,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said of McDougald. ”There is no question. We don’t have any hesitation in him playing or keeping the plan, principles intact or anything of that.”

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