Tim Tebow completes some passes and keeps shirt on at practice

Tim Tebow had his best day of training camp so far Monday, unofficially completing four of six passes and scrambling for a 25-yard run while practicing with the New York Jets’ second-string offense.

The backup quarterback did take a sack and got an earful from offensive coordinator Tony Sparano for not checking down on one incompletion. But overall Tebow did nothing to garner heckles from the New York fans, who let him hear about his sometimes wobbly and often incomplete passes (unofficially he was three for eight) during Saturday’s practice.

Sunday’s practice didn’t go much better, with Tebow unofficially completing just one of seven passes with a fumbled snap, although he did run for some big gains out of the pocket.

Those runs, as well as the big one on Monday, got enthusiastic responses from the crowd in Cortland, N.Y. But they probably won’t receive the amount of attention as another run by Tebow, who took off his shirt and dashed through a pouring rain following Saturday’s practice.

He also did nothing that equalled the spectacle of his shirtless run through the rain after Saturday’s practice.

“My shirt felt like 20 pounds,” said Tebow, who also lined up as the punt protector on special teams Monday. “I didn’t think y’all would be filming it and taking pictures.”

The devout Christian received his share of good-natured ribbing from Jets linebacker Bart Scott over the incident.

“Like I told Tim, I’ve never seen anybody decide to take their shirt off in the rain,” Scott said. “Usually, I put stuff on. Maybe it was holy water, I don’t know.”

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