This ex-NFL QB understands Sam Darnold's bout with mono

PHILADELPHIA -- A look at what's happening around the New York Jets (0-3):

1. Mono y mono: If there's one person on this planet who knows exactly what Sam Darnold has experienced over the past few weeks, it's Chris Chandler. Until Darnold, he was the only known case of a quarterback with mononucleosis. He contracted the illness in 1995, when he started for the Houston Oilers.

"I really hope he errs on the side of safety and caution," Chandler said by phone from his home in Utah. "He's so young and has such a long career ahead of him that I'd hate for this to flare up again or have something bad come out of it because of the spleen [issue]. Your internal organs are nothing to mess around with."

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