Should win-now Jets add Dalvin Cook to their crowded backfield? - ESPN - New York Jets Blog- ESPN

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — With eight words, New York Jets coach Robert Saleh unwittingly sparked intense fan and media speculation with regard to potential interest in free agent running back Dalvin Cook.

«We'll turn the stones over on that one,» Saleh said recently.

From all indications, the Jets have maintained a level of interest in Cook. How much is unclear. Looking for clues, perceptive fans noticed that team owner Woody Johnson recently on Twitter started following Cook — the only non-Jets player (past or present) on his follow list. Hmm.

With 39-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the Jets believe they have a one- or two-year championship window. They have a gifted running back in Breece Hall, but he is only nine months removed from ACL surgery on his left knee. While the team expects Hall to be ready for Week 1, it might make sense to purchase an expensive insurance policy.

«A lot of people got me pegged going back home [to Miami, and playing with the Dolphins], and a lot of people got me going to the Jets,» Cook said last week on Sirius XM NFL Radio. «It's all over the place right now. But what's going to be important for me is just going to that right situation and helping somebody turn the page.

»I want to go and be the piece that can just help somebody win and get over the hump, and whatever that situation comes with — if it comes with me taking less reps but me being in the perfect situation to hold up that trophy — I don't mind."

Let's take a closer look at Cook's potential fit with the Jets:

As far as we know, Cook's name doesn't appear on a Rodgers «wish list,» but that doesn't mean Cook wouldn't be welcomed by the new QB1. Rodgers knows what talent looks like, and he has seen plenty of Cook in the NFC North.