New York Daily News

Two grand? Jet WR believes it

- BY JUSTIN TASCH

One Jets wide receiver is so confident in the remaining wideouts’ ability to make up for the loss of Quincy Enunwa that he feels there could be multiple 1,000-yard receivers on the

team. “There definitely is a 1,000-yard receiver. There could be more than one,” second-year receiver Charone Peake said Wednesday after the Jets’ practice in Florham Park. “There’s a lot of good receivers in that room.” That is very wishful thinking in the wake of Enunwa’s neck injury, which is expected to keep him out for the entire 2017 season. No other Jet receiver has more than 56 career receptions. Peake is in position to be a starter opposite Robby Anderson once the season begins, with Jalin Marshall suspended the first four games for violating the NFL’s PED policy. Anderson was a standout during Wednesday’s practice. “We just all have to step up as a unit and just take advantage of the opportunit­y,” Peake said. “We really hate to see Quincy go down. That’s one of our brothers. But all of us just have to step up and make up for it.” There are plenty of criticisms being lobbed at the Jets ahead of what is shaping up to be a difficult season, especially at the inexperien­ced receiving corps. “We don’t pay any attention to it,” Peake said. “We just come out here every day, grind and keep working.” And regardless of what anyone may think, Peake believes the wide receivers will perform well — this also assumes they’ll get the requisite quarterbac­k play from whomever starts. “The confidence is high, it’s there,” Peake said. “We know what we’re capable of. We just have to go out there and prove it to everybody.”

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