OTAs: Clemens shows off rocket arm

 
Welcome to Day 6 of the Jets’ OTAs (organized team activities), the second day open to the media. Here’s what’s happening: • This is why Kellen Clemens is so intriguing to the organization, why he has a chance to win the ballyhooed QB competition against Chad Pennington. In today’s practice, Clemens threw a gorgeous, 45-yard completion up the right sideline to Laveranues Coles. Everything about it was impressive: He showed accuracy (he placed it over Coles’ outside shoulder, just beyond the reach of CB Darrelle Revis) and arm strength (the ball got to Coles before S Kerry Rhodes arrived with deep help). I’m not saying Clemens is better than Pennington, but plays like that make the organization imagine what could be. • Aside from disgruntled TE Chris Baker, top pick Vernon Gholston is the only player not in camp. Gholston is back at Ohio State, finishing the school year. By league rule, rookies can’t attend spring camps until their college class is finished for the ... [link]

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