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Jets cornerbacks coach Tony Oden was taken to a hospital for evaluation as a precaution after he fell to the ground during a joint practice Wednesday with the Buccaneers.

Oden was able to get to his feet and walk to a medical cart, which brought him inside the facility.

The incident happened right after one of the many skirmishes — which Tampa Bay veteran Mike Evans said were the most has ever seen in a joint practice — broke out.

“He’s doing fine,” head coach Robert Saleh said of Oden. “I’m not exactly sure what happened. I know it was during one of the altercations. I think he caught some friendly fire. He’s awake, he’s doing fine, he’s stable.”

Cornerback Brandin Echols was at the center of the incident that preceded Oden going down and others around him calling for medical attention.

“T.O. has a big place in my heart,” Echols said, “so I’m thinking about him right now.”


  Jets assistant coach Tony Oden. Getty Images Jets assistant coach Tony Oden. Getty Images

Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles, a native of Elizabeth, N.J., was back at the facility he called home as Jets head coach from 2015-18.

He hoped that his extended visit before the game Saturday against the Jets would allow him time to see his son, Todd Bowles Jr., a junior defensive back for Rutgers.

“New Jersey is home for me,” Bowles said. “The grass is the grass anywhere I go. I have a lot of good friends still in this building, so great to see them.”

Echols declined to comment on details of the car crash that led to his one-game suspension, calling it a “pending [legal] matter.”

He reportedly entered a three-year pretrial intervention program following a charge for fourth-degree assault by auto stemming from the April 2022 crash near the Jets facility that left another man “partially paralyzed.”

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