Some rookies, especially third-day-of-the-draft rookies, aren't ready to burst onto the pro scene. Some are plug-and-play from the get-go.

Malachi Moore is of the latter group. And head coach Aaron Glenn knew that from the time the Jets drafted the Alabama safety in Round 4 in April.

"Malachi's going to be a damn good player for us, and I'm looking forward to the way he progresses as these weeks go by," Glenn said last month after Moore logged 72 defensive snaps at Tampa Bay in his first pro start for the injured Tony Adams. "There won't be a week that we go in where he doesn't have a role."

Moore's role now is as the S starter alongside Andre Cisco . And the versatile, mature-beyond-his-24-years Moore is feeling right at home after making his third and fourth starts and playing all

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