Despite the obvious red flags that suggested it would be a bad idea to sign Dalvin Cook, the New York Jets went out and did it anyway. Not only that, but they paid him rather handsomely. With a one-year, $7 million deal, Cook owns the 11th-highest cap hit among running backs this season.
We’re five weeks in. And those five weeks are all we need to reach a fairly strong conclusion on the result of this signing.
The verdict: New York screwed up by ignoring the red flags.
There is a lot of time left in the season for Cook to turn things around, but so far, he has been so poor that it is difficult to envision that happening.