2011年8月20日星期六

Burress, covering in Jets

The wide receiver will make his playing debut for his new team Sunday in the Jets's preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Burress missed the preseason opener with a sprained left ankle that hobbled him in training camp, but he is healthy now and will start for New York.

It will be his first game since Nov. 23, 2008, at Arizona while with the Giants. He was signed by the Jets last month after serving a 20-month prison sentence on a gun charge for accidentally shooting himself in a leg in a Manhattan nightclub. Ryan said the starters will play into the second quarter against the Bengals, but that won’t include running back Shonn Greene.
He will not play as he recovers from what the team has called a “low-grade skin infection” on his right foot. He didn’t practice Thursday and isn’t expected to again until next week. The team said Greene is responding well to antibiotics and they expect him back next week. Greene had a callus shaved from his foot and received a local anesthetic to relieve the pain from that procedure.