The Jets are confident that Leon Washington will be able to give them a lot of production in 2010 as long as he can stay healthy.  Washington played in 7 games for the Jets last season and he carried the ball 72 times for 331 yards (4.6 ypc).  He also caught 15 passes for 131 yards (8.7 avg) last season for the Jets.  Washington’s season ended with a broken leg in 2009 but reports are that his recovery is coming along quite well.  Washington has now played in 55 games in his four years with the Jets and he has carried the ball 370 times for 1,782 yards (4.8 ypc) with 13 TD runs.  Washington also has caught 123 passes for 969 yards (7.9 avg) with 2 TD grabs in his time with the Jets.  Washington has a perfect skill set to combine with Shonn Greene’s to give the Jets dynamic play again in 2010 out of the running back position.

The Jets just wanted their QBs to manage the game and that’s exactly what they did in 2009.  23-year old rookie QB Mark Sanchez started 15 games for the Jets this season and he completed 196 of 364 passes (53.8%) for 2,444 yards with 12 TD passes and 20 INTs (63.0 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 36 times for 106 yards (2.9 ypc) with 3 TD runs this year.  The Jets hope that Sanchez has learned from his mistakes this year and hopes he won’t repeat them in 2010.

26-year old Kellen Clemens started 1 game for the Jets this season and he completed 13 of 26 passes (50%) for 125 yards without a TD or a INT (63.8 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 12 times for 1 yard (0.1 ypc) this year.  Clemens has now played in 24 games in his career with the Jets and he has completed 146 of 282 passes (51.8%) for 1,680 yards with 5 TD passes and 11 INTs (59.7 QB Rating).  Clemens has also carried the ball 44 times for 119 yards (2.7 ypc) with 1 TD run in his career.  The Jets might want to upgrade the back-up position for 2010 as they seem to have little faith in Clemens rushing Sanchez back to the field after he was injured.

With the Jets rushing for 163.0 yards per game this season and 4.9 yards per carry you would think Mark Sanchez would have a easy time throwing the ball.  That has not been true especially in the last three weeks in which he has completed 36 of 80 passes (45%) for 429 yards with 1 TD pass and 8 interceptions.  The Jets are not thinking about replacing him yet but they can’t let him play too much longer unless he turns things around.  He has now completed 85 of 163 passes (52.1%) for 1,035 yards with 5 TD passes and 10 INTs (56.7 QB Rating).  Sanchez has also carried the ball 18 times for 50 yards (2.8 ypc) with 1 TD run.  Look for the Jets to continue to lean on the running game until Sanchez starts to have better success throwing the football.