Jets head coach Robert Saleh spoke to the media this week and was asked about the recent comments made by offensive tackle Mekhi Becton, more or less blaming the coaching staff for his knee injury last season in training camp that cost him the entire season.
“It made no sense to put me at right tackle,” Becton told Newsday (H/T Brian Costello, New York Post). “I hurt my right knee. That’s going to be the knee that I put the most pressure on. I explained it, but no one cared.
“I got forced to play a position I don’t play, and then I was pretty much telling them I wasn’t feeling good the whole time throughout camp, and I was told I shouldn’t be complaining,” he added. “Go out there and do it. I was limping throughout the whole practice, and I just took a step and my knee buckled and I got hurt again and had to get reconstructive surgery.”
