Jason Taylor says he is not retiring, no matter what Pro Football Talk says.
The Jets linebacker called a PFT report that this would be his final season “crap,” according to NJ.com.
“I do not plan on retiring, and I don’t want to play for anybody else,” Taylor told the website.
PFT’s Mike Florio, a member of NBC’s Sunday night studio show, said the story is based on a source who said Taylor, in the first of a two-year contract with the Jets, is calling it quits after the season.
It points out Taylor has hired CAA to represent him for after-football endeavors without forcing him to switch from his current representation, something, according to PFT, they have always done in the past.
Florio responded to Taylor in a post Monday.
“Yes, Jason. I had nothing better to do on Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, so I put the name of all aging players whose best days are long behind them into a hat and pulled out one for the purposes of reporting that he plans to retire after the season,” he wrote. “After all, who doesn’t love to read on a Saturday afternoon a story about a guy who isn’t the player he used to be thinking about doing what many think he should have already done?”
Taylor signed with the Jets this offseason and has three sacks in seven games. Taylor, in his 14th season, has been primarily used in pass-rushing situations since Calvin Pace returned from a broken foot in Week 5.
“Regardless of what Taylor says, we stand by the story. One hundred percent,” Florio wrote.