The 2025 season is Justin Fields' time.
The New York Jets took a chance on the former first-round pick to become the leading man of Aaron Glenn's new regime, and it is seen as a win-win for both player and franchise.
Fields gets a chance to prove he is starting-caliber, and the Jets, while signing him to a two-year deal, can move on from him after the 2025 season relatively unscathed.
Still, for Fields, the upcoming season is a crucial one in his attempt to change the narrative surrounding him after four years in the league.
Given that we still don't know exactly what kind of player Justin is after glimpses of his talent and nothing more, he could be seen as an unknown commodity of sorts.
But he knows who he can be.
“I think I can be a player that has no limits,” Fields said. “A player that can make everybody around him better, can lead a team, can be that guy. So I'm just striving to be that player each and every day, and really for everybody to know that I'm that player.
"I think I know within myself I'm that player or I can get to that point but it's more for me just showing everybody else and proving not only to myself but proving to the world that you look at guys like Pat [Mahomes], Josh Allen, Lamar [Jackson] where everybody knows they're elite quarterback. At the end of the day, that's my goal and where I want to get to by the time I get done playing.”
For Fields, his biggest thing is proving he is "that" guy, and it isn't an easy thing to do.
In what will be his third team in three years, Fields has been handed the starting title for Tanner Engstrand's offense, giving him a clear runway for 2025.
However, achieving the elite status he craves will be a long and hard road. However, Fields seems confident he can, and who are we to say he can't?
Yes, the first four years of his career have shown him to be inconsistent, but that doesn't mean it's now set in stone for the rest of his NFL life.
Fields has a chance to show the world he is the guy he believes he is. The door of opportunity has swung open.
Now he has to walk through it.
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