Santonio Holmes Will Miss At Least First Four Games 2013 Season; Jets To Place Receiver On PUP List?

Santonio Holmes is telling friends and New York Jets teammates he will miss at least the first four games of the season recuperating from the foot injury he suffered in 2012.

According to reports, that revelation could actually prompt the Jets to place the speedy wideout on the physically unable to perform list, meaning in reality he will have to sit out the first six games of the year.

Without Holmes, the Jets are set to rely on a contingent of Stephen Hill, Braylon Edwards, Clyde Gates and Jeremy Kerley. Jeff Cumberland and Kellen Winslow are expected to add to the mix from the tight end position.

Hill and Gates have stood out through camp as the favorite targets of both Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith, themselves embroiled in a prolonged and heated battle to emerge as the team’s opening day quarterback.   

Holmes joined the Jets in 2010 and signed a five year, $45 million extension the following season. Since then, it’s been all downhill for the 29-year-old veteran, limited to just four games and a single touchdown catch last season by injury.

Holmes has also endured his share of legal woes since arriving in NYC. In March of 2010, a woman filed suit he threw a glass at her in an Orlando nightclub, resulting in a cut above her eye and just over a month later he was detained at Pittsburgh International Airport after getting into a heated dispute with a flight attendant over the volume of his iPod.

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