Jets 29-year-old All-pro 'likely' Done In New York

The New York Jets' defense didn't unrecorded up to expectations successful 2025, to opportunity nan least.

New York hired erstwhile Detroit Lions protect coordinator Aaron Glenn to beryllium nan team's caput coach and he brought Steve Wilks to municipality to beryllium nan team's protect coordinator. Some will constituent to nan Jets' trades of Sauce Gardner to nan Indianapolis Colts and Quinnen Williams to nan Dallas Cowboys arsenic nan logic why nan defense struggled.

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While it surely hurts to suffer 2 elite protect players successful nan mediate of a season, nan Jets' defense struggled each season, moreover earlier Gardner and Williams were traded. Overall, nan Jets allowed nan eighth-most full yards per game (355.6 yards per game). The passing defense really wasn't that bad. The Jets allowed 216.1 passing yards per game, 16th successful nan league. But they couldn't extremity nan tally and allowed 139.5 rushing yards per game, fourth-most successful nan league.

The Jets should effort to support Quincy Williams

After a 3-14 season, it will beryllium absorbing to spot who nan Jets determine to bring backmost and who they determine to fto walk. New York has nan fifth-most net headdress abstraction successful nan convention astatine conscionable complete $68 million, per Over The Cap. One feline worthy watching this offseason is All-Pro linebacker Quincy Williams, but The Athletic's Zack Rosenblatt said he is "likely" to time off successful free agency.

"The Jets deficiency playmakers connected defense and will apt suffer linebacker Quincy Williams successful free agency," Rosenblatt wrote. "Jets coach Aaron Glenn values versatility connected defense, and (Arvell Reese)a would beryllium a nosy Swiss Army weapon to deploy for whoever winds up getting nan protect coordinator job."

Outside of Breece Hall, Williams arguably is nan Jets' apical pending free agent. While nan 2025 play was a spot disjointed -- featuring a little benching and waste and acquisition rumors -- Williams still group a caller profession precocious pinch 3 1/2 sacks and tallied 83 full tackles successful 13 games played. This is simply a feline who was First-Team All-Pro successful 2023. He whitethorn not person fresh Wilks' system, but he nary longer is pinch nan Jets. If nan Jets tin find a measurement to support Williams, that would beryllium for nan champion and springiness nan squad 1 little area to interest astir connected defense.

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