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Mike Catapano has healthy outlook on position switch in second season with Jets

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — This was as polished a sequence of games that Mike Catapano can remember from a football career that first flourished at Chaminade High.

Activated from the Jets’ practice squad late last year, Catapano injected a mix of speed and enthusiasm to the defense at a pivotal point in the season. He’d found a niche in the Jets’ defense, playing a combined 53 snaps in his first three games, producing a quarterback hit in a win over the Dolphins and then getting his first sack of the season against Eli Manning in a win over the Giants.