Sheldon Rankins injured elbow against Bills
New York Jets defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins injured his elbow during Sunday's win over the Buffalo Bills. Head coach Robrert Saleh addressed the injury to reporters on Monday as the team enters their bye week.
"We're going to allow the bye week to kinda see what happens here with him, so he's going to be week-to-week," he said. "As far as IR is concerned, we're not going to even look at that until we get back from the bye week just to see how he responds to this week."
While Saleh didn't give a timetable for Rankins' recovery, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reports the injury is a dislocated elbow and he will miss 4-6 weeks.
Rankins left the game during the first quarter and headed back to get an X-ray. He was quietly having a very nice year for the Jets. He has 25 tackles and two sacks this season.
To replace Rankins, the Jets have Nathan Shepherd and Solomon Thomas behind Quinnen Williams. They also have Jonathan Marshall and Tanzel Smart on the practice squad and John Franklin-Myers and Micheal Clemons can also play inside, if needed.
In Week 9, Williams played 46/62 snaps, Thomas played 27 snaps and Shepherd played 23. Rankins played 10 before the injury.
Paste BN Sports+ producer Victoria Hernandez contributed to this story.