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FLORHAM PARK, N.J.
Plaxico Burress is finally ready to go for the New York Jets.
The wide receiver from Virginia Beach will make his playing debut for his new team tonight in the Jets' preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Burress missed the preseason opener with a sprained left ankle that hobbled him in training camp, but he is healthy now and will start for New York.
It will be his first game since Nov. 23, 2008, at Arizona while with the Giants. He was signed by the Jets last month after serving a 20-month prison sentence on a gun charge for accidentally shooting himself in a leg in a Manhattan nightclub.
"We'll leave him in there and let him play a bunch," coach Rex Ryan said. "He looks fine."
Burress was forced to sit out team drills for several days because of the injured ankle, but has been running with the first-team offense during the past few practices.
He had just one catch in team drills entering Friday, and will be looking to quickly develop a rapport with quarterback Mark Sanchez.
"I know what I'm capable of doing," Burress said, his confidence as high as ever. "Everybody expects (a drop-off because) I've been away for two years, and I just turned 34 and all those things. None of those things matter to me. I believe that I'm still one of the best out there competing and I'm not going to lose that mindset."
Ryan said the starters will play into the second quarter.
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