Monday 25 June 2012

Jets DL Wilkerson hurt in motor vehicle crash


New York Jets defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson is expected being all set for preparation get away subsequent month once suffering minor injuries inside a two-car crash earlier Saturday.

New Jersey State criminal Lt. Stephen Jones said Monday that Wilkerson was generating a 2011 Dodge Challenger northbound at the Garden State Parkway in Kenilworth, Union County. He attempted to alter lanes and struck the rear still left facet of the 2011 Toyota Sienna carrying 11 people.
Wilkerson's automobile flipped over and came to relax on its roof.
A team spokesman said Wilkerson received stitches in a single of his forearms once the accident, but is expected to sign up for his teammates when the Jets record for preparation get away in Cortland, N.Y., on July 26. Wilkerson voluntarily came on the Jets' preparation facility in Florham Park, N.J., on Monday to match with team doctors.
"The team is conscious from the motor vehicle accident Saturday morning hours and has been in make contact with with Muhammad," the Jets said inside a statement.
Jones said 3 many people inside minivan documented pain, however they declined treatment in the scene.
Wilkerson, 22, was ticketed for careless generating and failing to maintain his lane, but criminal don't feel booze was involved.
The past Linden substantial star was the Jets' first-round pick beyond Temple final twelve months and experienced a solid rookie season, beginning all 16 video games and compiling 49 tackles, 3 sacks and a safety. teach Rex Ryan raved about Wilkerson for the time-span of New York's not too long ago completed three-day minicamp, stating that he expects even larger stuff from him this period as he teams with Quinton Coples, this year's first-round pick, on the heavy defensive line.
"He's heading being tricky to ignore, that is for sure," Ryan said of Wilkerson. "The point that you normally appear for inside a young man, a rookie coming in to the league, a great sum of instances he'll strike that wall and they will do just the opposite. He actually obtained improved since the period went on. He was actively playing in a extremely substantial degree through the finish from the period and he is actually gotten better."

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