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"I'm just going to gauge how I feel. If I can mentally get through the game and feel OK, then I'm going to do that."
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Eric Decker is ready to play again. The New York Jets wide receiver hopes his ailing right hamstring allows him to.
"I'm planning on getting out there," Decker said. "I can't promise anything, but obviously I'm leaning on the positive side that I'm definitely going to be out there."
Wide receiver David Nelson was also sidelined for the second straight day because of an illness,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping. Ryan said the team sent him home before practice.
"It's kind of a pain in the butt," he said. "You've really got to kind of gauge it. Everyone's different with how they recover and how bad the pull is or strain or whatever they diagnose it as. For me, it's just kind of feeling it out and pushing it to the point where I know my body well enough to where it's, 'OK, that's good pain and that's bad pain.' So, just being smart about it."
Decker sat out practice for the second straight day Thursday with tightness in his leg, but is optimistic about his chances of playing against the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Decker was limited Monday night against Chicago because of the injury,Cheap Jerseys Free, which occurred in Week 2 at Green Bay. He was a game-time decision, and could be in a similar situation this weekend.
"If I sat out, would it be better today? I don't know," he said. "But I do know that I wasn't going to push it past the point where I'm going to make it worse. When I woke up Tuesday morning, I didn't feel worse than I felt Monday after the Green Bay game. So I knew I was smart about it.
"I've got no regrets," Decker said of playing Monday night. "As a competitor, it's hard to be out. I thought through last week, how I felt (Monday) pregame, I could get some snaps in. I knew I wasn't going to play the whole game. I knew I could do a little bit, at least, to help. That's all I could do was 15, 16 snaps,Cheap Jerseys From China, whatever it was."
Backup center Dalton Freeman injured a knee during practice, which was held in the indoor facility because of storms. Ryan had no immediate update on the severity, but said Colon and rookie Dakota Dozier could snap in place of Freeman if Mangold is sidelined at any point.
Decker,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, second on the team with 10 catches for 156 yards and a touchdown,Wholesale China Jerseys, acknowledged that there's some concern about waiting until he's feeling 100 percent healthy. That was something he considered Monday night.
Defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson (knee), center Nick Mangold (shoulder) and right guard Willie Colon (calf) were all limited, but are expected to play.
Meanwhile, top cornerback Dee Milliner didn't practice because of a quadriceps injury that sidelined him for the game against the Bears. Coach Rex Ryan said it "probably doesn't look good" for Milliner to play against the Lions.
Dealing with a soft-tissue injury is something new for Decker, who first hurt the hamstring during training camp and aggravated it against the Packers.
Decker had one catch for 19 yards against the Bears before pulling himself out of the game. He says he couldn't get his leg loose enough,Wholesale China Jerseys, so he and the Jets were smart to not push it. |
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