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David Nelson hopes to prove the Bills made a mistake by not tendering him a contract.
David Nelson isn’t holding anything back: this week’s game has extra meaning for him. The wide receiver spent his first three seasons with the Bills before the team declined to tender him a contract in the offseason. Nelson said he’s looking forward to facing his old squad.
“Anybody who tells you when they go play an old team or a team that cut them, they tell you it’s just another game, is lying to you. Because this is definitely more than just another game for me,” Nelson said. “That’s kind of been my motivation for the past seven, eight, nine months since that happened. That’s kind of what’s still driving me. To return back there and have that continually in the back of my head is going to be exciting.”
He spoke highly of his time with the Bills but clearly wasn’t happy with how his relationship ended. He found out they weren’t tendering him a contract on Twitter while attending a Chicago Blackhawks game, he said, and was given no explanation. “It’s going to be an emotional game, it’s going to be a fun game, this game holds a little more in my heart than most others,” Nelson said. “That’s just the way it is.”
Nelson has been somewhat of a pleasant surprise for the Jets, catching 16 passes for 199 yards in his five games with Gang Green since joining the team in October.
KERLEY HURTING
Even as one health issue at wide receiver seems to dissipate, another crops up. Jeremy Kerley suffered a partial dislocation of his elbow against the Saints, and though Rex Ryan wouldn’t rule him out of the game, he said, “It doesn’t look good.” The coach said Kerley was in a sling. With Kerley out for the foreseeable future, the team is working out wide receiver free agents.
On the other hand, the news looks positive for Santonio Holmes, who has been sidelined since hurting his hamstring against the Titans in Week 4. “I think he’ll play,” said Ryan.
KNEE DEEP
Ryan admitted that he was wrong to have the Jets run the ball at the end of the Saints game when he could have just knelt down to end the game. “I butchered it,” Ryan said. . . . Upon appeal, Nelson had his fine rescinded for his late hit on the Bengals’ Adam Jones.
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