Jets leave Week 7 with more banged up stars

The Jets finished Sunday’s 13-6 loss to the Panthers with more injuries to their star players.Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.

They were already without receiver Garrett Wilson, their best offensive player, on Sunday with a hyperextended knee.Then they lost cornerback Sauce Gardner in the second half Sunday to a head injury.Running back Breece Hall was also injured when a Panthers player landed on his legs that Hall said was a hip-drop tackle, a form of tackling that the NFL has banned.The Jets also lost defensive tackle Jay Tufele with a knee injury in the first half and running back/returner Kene Nwangwu had a concussion, like Gardner.“We’ll see exactly where [those injuries] are,’’ Jets head coach Aaron Glenn said.

“I’ll give you an answer as the week progresses on those three guys.’’Hall, who was coming off last week’s game when he wasn’t targeted once in the passing game for the first time in his career, had only three offensive touches in the second half.Glenn said Hall was dinged up in the first half, which was the reason he was used so little in the second.“Breece had an injury, but he came back and he tried to give us everything he had,’’ Glenn said.“So, kudos to him for doing that.

I thought early on that he was running the ball fairly well, and those guys did a good job of tightening up against the run.“He’s a guy that we need to lean on.We have to use him as much as possible.’’Hall complained that there was no call on the hip-drop tackle.“I was hurt, but I want to play,’’ he said.

“I want to be able to help impact the team, but wasn’t enough to get the win today.’’As for Wilson’s status to play Sunday, Glenn said it was “close as we went through the week,’’ adding: “The thing is you have to protect him from himself, so it just wasn’t a good decision to put him out there at this time.’’Glenn wasn�...