Jets QB Teddy Bridgewater Says Playing Football Again is a “Wonderful Feeling”

Teddy Bridgewater. Photo by Duncan Williams/CSM/REX/Shutterstock

New York Jets’ quarterback Teddy Bridgewater now finally healthy and is feeling great about his chances to compete in 2018 season. After suffering torn ACL in his knee in 2016, the injury that kept him almost two years from professional football, Bridgewater is finally ready to officially announce his full recovery.

Speaking with reporters on Monday, the 25-year-old said that the chance to play football again is “a wonderful feeling.”

Right now, I’m doing everything I dreamed of doing — and that’s waking up and continuing to play football,” – Bridgewater said. “It’s a wonderful feeling. It gives me chills right now to think about it, knowing how the previous two years were.

Asked whether he thinks his knee will manage to keep with the pressure of competing for a starting job, Bridgewater responded with confidence.

I definitely feel like I’m good,” – he said. “With the training staff here, we’ve been definitely hitting it hard.”

So far, the career of Teddy Bridgewater didn’t go down as planned. After being drafted in the first round by Minnesota Vikings and winning the NFL Rookie of the Year award in 2014, Bridgewater was poised to be franchise’s quarterback of the future. Four years and one horrifying knee injury later, he finds himself with the New York Jets trying to resurrect his career.

Bridgewater signed a one-year deal with the Jets in March 2018 and is expected to fight for the starting job in the training camp. This won’t be such an easy task, considering the fact that Jets’ traded up in the 2018 NFL Draft to take USC’s QB Sam Darnold with the third overall pick. The only question now is whether the organization decides to patiently develop Darnold and give Bridgewater a chance to prove himself or gamble on the rookie from the start.

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