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Two of the biggest storylines concerning the Jets this offseason have centered on players who haven’t been around the team.

The team’s ongoing contract impasse with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has been on center stage all offseason and defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson has also been away from the team after getting the franchise tag a couple of months ago. Wilkerson hasn’t signed his tender and has until July 15 to sign a long-term contract, although nothing appears any more imminent on that front than it did at the start of the offseason.

Coach Todd Bowles didn’t offer much optimism about that changing in the next two months when he was asked about Wilkerson this week.

“Well, we want to come to an agreement,” Bowles said. “We want to sign all our good players. But that doesn’t always work out. I’m not saying we are or aren’t. Obviously you want to keep your good players around. But with the rules these days they make it very hard after four or five years to keep your own. So we got to try to finagle and find ways to do that and have enough money to try to do so.”

Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports Wilkerson has spoken to the team’s training staff about his recovery from a broken leg and has told friends he won’t attend the team’s minicamp starting on June 14. That would shift the Wilkerson watch to training camp, when the Jets should have a better idea about their quarterback situation as well.