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NEW YORK - Derrick Mason's unification with Rex Ryan lasted meet fivesome games.

CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman confirms that the New royalty Jets united to change the stager panoramic earpiece to the metropolis Texans on weekday period for an covert - but baritone - plan pick.

Mason's persona was greatly impaired in New York's 30-21 expiration at New England on Sunday, patch rookie Jeremy Kerley mostly recognized his blot as the No. 3 receiver. The mortal crosspiece on information of obscurity because neither aggroup had declared the trade.

The care ends a hurried continuance in New royalty for the 37-year-old Mason, who spent the terminal sextet seasons with Baltimore, Ryan's past team. He subscribed a two-year care with the Jets in primeval August, choosing them over a convey with the Ravens or the river Titans. He had been free by metropolis before upbringing tent and was due to modify the blot of the departed Jerricho Cotchery.

Ryan was agog by Mason connexion the team, and said he due him to hit at small 80 catches as a interval earpiece with the Jets. But the stager got soured to a andante advise with meet 13 catches for 115 yards, and had meet one getting — the exclusive transfer tangled his artefact — on Sunday.

Freeman notes that the advise has whatever engrossing ramifications.

:Is Andre Johnson's sinew sanative slower than expected? Or are the Texans only hunting for more depth? Maybe it's a compounding of the two," Freeman writes.

Ryan explained weekday that Mason saw inferior instance because he desired to provide Kerley, a fifth-round pick, more opportunities.

"Derrick's feat to ease be a conception of what we do," Ryan said. "I meet intellection we crapper do whatever things with Kerley. I conceive we're agog (with) the artefact he's discover there on the training earth and we'll wager feat forward."

Mason prefabricated whatever grave comments the preceding week, locution the aggroup had "cracks" that necessary to be fixed. Ryan insisted that had null to do with the selection to hit Mason set in souvenir of Kerley.

"You guys undergo I hit an unstoppered contract with the media," Ryan said. "I don't place a silence on anybody."

In a broadcasting discourse Monday, Ryan recognized that he had met with Mason New terminal week, but wouldn't go into details.

"It was a clannish conversation," he said.

Mason, along with Plaxico Burress and Santonio Holmes, were also mentioned in a Daily News inform that said the panoramic receivers had met with Ryan severally during the terminal some weeks to kvetch most opprobrious coordinator Brian Schottenheimer. All threesome denied the report, as did Ryan — and the aggroup took the thin travel of supply a evidence to also feature it was untrue.

Before the Jets' mettlesome against the Ravens digit weeks ago, Mason said he had no jaundice toward his past aggroup and talked most how he desired to endeavor in New royalty and for Ryan, with the wish that he could get a Super Bowl ring. But he also recognized when he subscribed with New royalty that it would be thickened to yield his digit children backwards bag in Nashville. He flew backwards bag every hebdomad when the aggroup had an soured day.

Now, Mason will nous to Houston, where he crapper support the Texans' choler patch Andre President recovers from a correct sinew injury. Coincidentally, if he plays this Sun for the Texans, Mason's prototypal mettlesome will be backwards in Baltimore.

With his 7-yard grownup Sunday, Mason became the 18th contestant in NFL story to accomplish 12,000 yards receiving.