One of the Jets’ 🌌former Pro Bowl defenders is coming back to New Yo🌠rk.
Former cornerback Antonio 𒈔Cromartie announced on Sunday he would be participating in the NFL’s Bill Walsh Internship with the Jets🍰 during training camp.
“Ready [to] learn as much as I can during this time,” Cromartie wrote. “Thank ๊you Coach Saleh and your staff for this opportunity!!📖!”
Cromartie played five seasons with the Jets, making two Pro Bowls across his time ♕iꦐn green-and-white.
From 2010-13, the ღ6-foot-2 cornerback’s 13 interceptions were tied for the 14th-most in the NFL.
The Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship began in 1987 and is open to either former NFL players or those who have coached at the high schoo✃l, college or other professional level.
According to the NFL’s Football Operations website, the position was “designed as a vocational tool to increase the numbeꦛr of full-time NFL minority coaches.”
Having last played in 2016, the 40-year-old Cromartie has 🔥since transitioned to the coaching ranks, last working as an analyst at Dꦿivision-II Saint Augustine University in 2023.
Before that, Cromartie was a defensive graduate assistant at Texas A&M in 2021, not to🎀 mention worked as an intern with the Jets in 2018 as a Bill🥃 Walsh Fellow.
Since its creation, the Bill Wജalsh Coaching Fell𓃲owship has been a proven accelerator of top coaches’ climbs through the ranks.
Alumni of the program include Steelers 🅰head coa𒀰ch Mike Tomlin, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles and former Panthers and Commanders head coach Ron Rivera.
Cromartie will get the opportunity to learn under one of the NFL’s best defensive staffs, featuring head coach Saleh, defensive coordinator Jeff 📖Ulbrich and cornerbacks coach Tony Oden.
Other current J🦄ets coaches to have participated in the Walsh Fellowship include tight ends coach Ron Miꦜddleton, assistant offensive line coach Ben Wilkerson and offensive assistant Junior Taylor.
Whether watching Aaron Rodgers throw darts, monitoring additions like Mike Willia🦩ms and Tyron Smith or following Cromartie on the sidelines, the Jets’ training camp will offer no shortage of appointment viewing.
The team is set to fully report to camp on Jul⛎y 23.
