The plan to bring along Mike Williams will be pragmatic. The New York Jets wide receiver is just returning to the practice field this week.

Last year in just three games played due to an ACL injury, Williams had 19 catches for 249 yards and a touchdown. But in 2022, he had 63 catches for 895 yards and four touchdowns.

Twice in his seven-season NFL career, Williams has 1,000 receiving yards.

Williams was activated this week and he saw the practice field on Thursday according to head coach Robert Saleh. It was the first time Williams has been on the field since signing this offseason with the Jets.

“The good news is, obviously he’s a lot further ahead than we anticipated,”Jets head coach Robert Saleh told the media on Thursday.

“If I’m not mistaken, he was out at individual and some route running stuff early, so that’s going to kind of be his progression, he’ll be involved in all the walkthroughs, individual, routes on air, so for the next week or two that’s about the extent of what we’ll see unless he starts feeling good, but we’ll anticipate him getting back into teamwork, maybe a couple weeks from now.”

Williams signed a one-year, $10 million contract this offseason.