Breece Halls injury gives Jets Braelon Allen chance to prove hes workhorse back

Braelon Allen was honest ahead of the season about how important Year 3 was for him and proving his worth.A potentially significant moment in his young career has arrived.Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.

With Breece Hall (quad) out for Sunday’s Week 4 game against the Bears in Chicago, Allen becomes the Jets’ top running back.Hall, who suffered the injury in the Week 3 loss to the Lions, is considered week to week, meaning there’s a possibility Allen will have more than one game as the lead rusher.Hall’s injury is a major blow to a Jets running game that was already struggling this year — they are averaging 3.3 yards per carry, which ranks 30th in the NFL.But Allen during training camp said he wanted to “prove myself as a workhorse back.” This is his opportunity to do exactly that.“I’m an all-down back, I’m a three-down back, I’m more versatile than I get credit for,” Allen told The Post after practice Friday.

“I’m just hoping I continue to get more and more opportunities to show that.”Allen’s ability to prove himself was stolen from him just four weeks into last season when he sprained his MCL after taking a hit while returning a kick against the Dolphins.It required surgery and ended his season.“It sucked,” Allen said.

“It was my first major injury, first surgery and all that.Kind of my season being taken away while I was kind of just getting into my groove and felt like I was figuring it out a little bit, it was tough.

But it was definitely a learning experience.I’ve grown so much from it.“There’s definitely dark times through that process and I just knew — you have to decide how you want to come out of it on the other side.

I wanted to make sure that I was gonna come back better, bigger, faster, stronger and more explosive.That was the mindset that I had, was just to get through it better.”The injury abruptly ended the pro...