Ranking top Week 3 preseason games to watch: Aaron Rodgers making Jets debut, Trey Lance to face Chargers

rewrite this content material with complete period and stay HTML tags This isn’t your father’s preseason finale. What was once as soon as a exhibit for fringe roster avid gamers has change into a last (and in some instances, first) get dressed practice session for each and every groups’ beginning gadgets. This is the byproduct of the NFL reducing down the preseason and lengthening the time between the closing exhibition recreation and the primary week the common season. The NFL’s ultimate week of the preseason will span 4 days, beginning with Steelers-Colts on Thursday night time and concluding with Texans-Saints on Sunday night time. During the following 4 days, many starters gets one closing likelihood to blank issues up sooner than the common season, key place battles gets nearer to being settled, and fanatics gets one closing soccer repair sooner than the common season kicks off on Sept. 7 with the Lions visiting the Chiefs. Here’s a have a look at the top 5 Week 3 preseason games to watch, beginning with the fight of the Big Apple. 1. Jets at Giants: Saturday at 6 p.m. ET (NFL Network) Aaron Rodgers’ debut as a Jet will happen in opposition to New York’s in-house rival. It will also be the primary recreation in inexperienced for Dalvin Cook, the previous Vikings Pro Bowl working again who was once signed by way of the Jets early closing week.  When the Jets have the ball, be expecting Rodgers to take a look at the Giants secondary deep with Garrett Wilson, closing yr’s Offensive Rookie of the Year who has temporarily evolved a bond with Rodgers all over their little while in combination in New York. The Jets may also take a look at to get their offensive line in sync after an enchanting coaching camp, to say the least. While the unit has struggled from time to time in observe, the Jets line has allowed only one sack over their closing two preseason games. 2. 49ers at Chargers: Friday at 10 p.m. ET (NFL Network) This recreation to start with did not make the lower, nevertheless it jumped up to the No. 2 spot after the 49ers named Sam Darnold their No. 2 quarterback forward Trey Lance, whose long term with the group is reportedly doubtful. Kyle Shanahan mentioned that Lance will play in opposition to the Chargers in spite of being held out of Wednesday’s observe after being knowledgeable of his demotion. “I mean, this isn’t a thing that we’re giving up on Trey,” Shanahan advised KNBR, by way of ESPN. “This is more of how Brock (Purdy) played in his seven games. … They both looked good, but we do have to make a decision here and you only get so many reps at it, and we feel, starting about 10 days ago, that Sam really separated himself. We got to keep it real in that way.” There’s so much at the line for Lance on Friday night time. If Lance performs smartly, it’s going to lend a hand his odds of being traded. If he does not, Lance could also be spending the 2023 season because the 49ers’ third-string quarterback. 3. Seahawks at Packers: Saturday at 1 p.m. ET While Rodgers has gained a mountain of headlines this summer season, his successor in Green Bay, Jordan Love, has been making some waves of his personal. The former first-round pick out has loved a cast coaching camp that has incorporated high quality begins in opposition to the Bengals and Packers. Through two preseason games, Love has finished 66.7 p.c of his throws with two touchdowns, no alternatives and a 124.8 passer ranking.  The Packers protection will see a large number of Drew Lock, a former Broncos 2nd around pick out who has resurfaced in Seattle as Geno Smith’s backup. Lock, who left Seattle’s earlier preseason recreation in opposition to the Cowboys with a knee harm, has finished 73.3 p.c of his passes all over the exhibition season.  (*3*) Seahawks trainer Pete Carroll lately mentioned of Lock, by way of Sports Illustrated. “There’s nothing we do that he can’t do, doesn’t have a command of. That’s a fortunate situation. I hope he comes out of this, this yank he got on his knee here, and can play this next week. We will have done everything we can to prepare him when the opportunity comes. We believe in him.”4. Texans at Saints: Sunday at 8 p.m. ET (Fox) No. 2 total pick out C.J. Stroud gets one closing likelihood to make his case to be the Texans’ Week 1 starter on Sunday night time. Stroud has continued what has been a problem preseason for himself and the Texans, who have been outscored by way of a mixed rating of 48-12 in losses to New England and Miami. If not anything else, the ones games gave Stroud an opportunity to show his toughness and unravel. Consistency, Stroud lately mentioned, is his largest center of attention as he prepares for his subsequent alternative.  “I definitely know that I can be a really good player in this league,” Stroud mentioned previous this week, by way of yahoo!news. “I think I’ve showed flashes of that. It doesn’t matter until you do things consistently.” 5. Patriots at Titans: Thursday at 8:15 p.m. ET (NFL Network) Given the loopy quantity of news this week, Ezekiel Elliott’s arrival in New England has been quite forgotten. That could also be true, however the former two-time speeding champion’s debut with the Patriots continues to be attention-grabbing. Elliott regarded the a part of a featured again all over his rating in opposition to the Packers all over his first reside observe as a Patriot closing week.  The Patriots protection may get the risk to face Titans beginning quarterback Ryan Tannehill, who might play so as to get him some reside recreation reps with Tennessee’s made over offensive line. There also are questions referring to rookie quarterback Will Levis and whether or not or no longer he’ll play after an harm saved him out of the group’s loss to the Vikings. With Levis out, Malik Willis performed all the recreation, going 10 of 17 for 85 yards with a landing and a pick out. He additionally ran for 91 yards on 11 carries that incorporated a 26-yard jaunt.  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