Don’t count on a Gang Inexperienced reunion with Mecole Hardman this offseason.
“No,” Hardman not too long ago instructed NFL Community’s Andrew Siciliano, “I gained’t return to the Jets.”
Any lingering exhausting emotions are comprehensible after the wideout appeared in simply 5 video games with New York after signing a one-year, $4 million deal, making one catch for six yards within the overhauled offense.
Hardman was finally traded to the Chiefs, for whom he performed the primary 4 seasons of his profession.
The transfer paid off, with Hardman catching three passes for 58 yards — together with the title-clinching landing — in Kansas Metropolis’s Tremendous Bowl 2024 win over the 49ers.
Whether or not the large recreation within the Huge Sport – Hardman’s third title with the Chiefs — was sufficient to persuade the Chiefs to run it again with the receiver stays to be seen.
“Proper now you’re simply listening to discuss and seeing what’s occurring, individuals’s concepts,” Hardman instructed Siciliano. “And also you’ll in all probability get a greater concept because the week goes on. However at any time when free company begins, you’ll know. However we’ll see if they need me again. If not, could be someplace else. So, we’ll see.”
Nonetheless, there’s one place the 25-year-old assuredly gained’t find yourself when NFL free company opens on Mar. 14.
He was nonetheless attempting to unpack the place his failed Jets tenure went fallacious forward of his newest Tremendous Bowl win.
Hardman completed the 2023 season with 15 catches for 124 yards and scored his lone landing when he hauled in a three-yard go from Patrick Mahomes in extra time of this yr’s Tremendous Bowl.
“It was a curler coaster,” he stated. “Issues positively didn’t go like I needed it to go. I assume I simply wasn’t on the identical web page with everyone.”
