Carlton Haselrig was the guy who used to go missing from time to time. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1007567/index.htm#ixzz1CU7IfeBs Maybe Evans had a problem, too?
Jason Taylor. Actually the only good to come out of the heartbreaking loss to Pitt in the AFCCG this year is that this miami jets-fan bashing scumbag will NEVER EVER EVER win an nfl championship. Honorable 'mail it in' Jets free agent award: Leonard Marshall
I'm trying to find some info on Evans but there doesn't seem to be a lot about him but in 1995 Evans started 4 games at DE and registered 2 sacks in those 4. It seems odd that he would have been released. He never played in another NFL game after that 4th game of the 1995 season. A weird stat about Evans was in the only game he played in the 1987 season with the Rams he had 3 carries for 10 yards yet no tackles. Odd because he was a DE drafted in the 2nd round out of Winston-Salem State. Edit: I found this about Evans of all places the LA Times http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-10/sports/sp-55225_1_boomer-esiason New York Jet quarterback Boomer Esiason is listed as doubtful for Sunday's game at Carolina because of a concussion and backup Bubby Brister has a contused right thumb that is swollen. Brister, however, is expected to start. The Jets will definitely be without defensive end Donald Evans, who will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle and be out at least four weeks. Free safeties Gary Jones and Ron Carpenter, cornerback Otis Smith and defensive end Kurt Barber will also sit out. But missing 4 weeks after ankle surgery somehow doesn't equate to the guy never playing again? I'm quite confused but I seem to recall that Evans did go AWOL.
It was the first name that popped into my head. Or, rather, "That freakin backup DE to Tampa we gave way too big a contract to for no reason." I googled him, apparently he has Twitter... http://twitter.com/#!/sgw94 4 years, $7.5m, incentive-laden. Wasn't as big a deal as I remembered, but I do remember the 4 years. Didn't last more than 1. Great thread. Totally forgot about the Tom Nutten debacle.
The Jets placed Evans on injured reserve at the beginning of November 1995. It was Haselrig who went AWOL.
someon could have said this already but how about doug jolley TE from oakland who we gave away the world for
I didn't think Beasley was as bad as a signing because they were desperate. Hadn't they just lost both their starting corners in the expansion draft to the Texans, one of whom (Marcus Coleman) sucked major ass anyway? And as sad as I was to lose Aaron Glenn, I liked the Donnie Abraham signing that off-season. Considering the other Bucs that Hermway wound up signing, he was the best of the bunch. Jets have a terrible history with free agent wideouts.
Evans wasn't that bad actually.....he could be a dominant force at times. I remember him going bezerk in Indianapolis in 1994 and nearly attacking a referee after a bad call which cost the Jets the game...... Surprised nobody mentioned David Williams, the OT Kotite brought in back in 1996. Bad back and a total bust......
