Adonai Mitchell’s New York Jets debut could not have started much uglier on paper. The second-year wideout, acquired from the Indianapolis Colts in the Sauce Gardner blockbuster, played 49 percent of the Jets’ offensive snaps on Thursday Night Football and was targeted six times.
Unfortunately, those six targets resulted in just one catch for 10 yards and three drops, including what probably should’ve been a 40-plus-yard gain down the sideline.
Against a divisional rival, in primetime, and matched up with one of the NFL’s elite young cornerbacks in Christian Gonzalez, that’s generally the kind of box score that usually buries first impressions.