Harris DP of the Week

always good to see the recognition......


One day after we reported that Harris was named to PFW’s Midseason All-Pro Team, Harris picked up another honor today when the NFL announced that the Jets’ middle linebacker has been named the AFC Defensive Player of the Week.

Harris had a productive day at Buffalo in the Jets’ 27-11 triumph over the Bills. His leap-tip-and-grab interception took away promising field position from the Bills late in the second quarter, and he added two quarterback hits on Ryan Fitzpatrick and was in on a tackle for loss of Fred Jackson. He finished with five tackles on the game.

This is Harris’ second career Player of the Week honor. He also took the award after the 2009 opening-day 24-0 shutout of the Texans at Houston, Rex Ryan’s inaugural game as Jets head coach. “The Hitman” also was named the AFC Rookie of the Month for November 2007.

It’s also the Jets defense’s third POW award this season and its second in the past three games. Antonio Cromartie won the title after his showing vs. Jacksonville in Game 2, and Darrelle Revis was similarly rewarded his Week 6 primetime effort against the Dolphins. Then last week Joe McKnight was named the AFC’s Special Teams Player of the Month for October.

We’ll get some comments from David and post them here as soon as we can following today’s practice, and we’ll have plenty more on newyorkjets.com today and this week from the latest “New England Week.”

The news so far at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Complex is that the building lost power late this morning due to tree cutting that brought down a wire that took down electrical feeds in the Florham Park area and specifically to the complex. But the outage didn’t affect the team, which is now conducting today’s practice on the grass fields, and the power is back on.