The Jets aren’t ready to make a call on wide receiver Adonai Mitchell’s availability for Sunday’s game against the Lions.
Mitchell was added to the injury report with a finger injury on Thursday and he was limited in practice for the second straight day on Friday. The team has listed him as questionable for the game.
Linebacker Joseph Ossai (foot) is also listed as questionable. Ossai did not play in the first two games, so this weekend would mark his Jets debut.
The Jets ruled safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (groin), tight end Mason Taylor (thumb), and linebacker Kiko Mauigoa (quad) out for this week. Running back Kene Nwangwu (back) is listed as doubtful.
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Lions head coach Dan Campbell and Jets head coach Aaron Glenn were both born and raised in Texas, both played at Texas A&M, they were teammates on the Cowboys, they were on the Saints’ coaching staff together for five years, and when Campbell got the Detroit job, making Glenn his defensive coordinator was his first order of business. Suffice to say, they’re close.
In fact, Campbell said today that when the Jets hired Glenn away from the Lions to be their head coach, it led to a unique mix of emotions, because he was so happy for his friend reaching his ultimately career goal, and so sad that they wouldn’t work together anymore.
“AG means the world to me. He’s one of my dearest friends because I know what he’s made of,” Campbell said. “One of the greatest days of my life was him getting that job, and one of the worst days of my life was him getting that job. Because you’re losing a little piece of you. That’s what he meant to me, and to us.”
Campbell’s Lions face Glenn’s Jets on Sunday, and it will be a special moment for both coaches.
Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown told reporters today that he was fined nearly $60,000 for four celebrations in which he mimicked smoking in last week’s game against the Bills.
St. Brown said each of his four celebrations came with a fine of more than $14,000.
“It’s not good, man,” St. Brown said, via the Detroit Free Press. “Fourteen-something times four. You do the math. But I’m appealing.”
The NFL classifies inappropriate celebrations as unsportsmanlike conduct, and the standard fine is $14,926. Four of those fines would total $59,704.
The league appears to have cracked down especially hard on celebrations this week. 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk was fined for what the league said was miming chugging a beer but Juszczyk says was miming drinking a glass of juice, which is his nickname. Colts guard Matt Goncalves was fined for the same thing. Bengals receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins were both fined for a celebration that was deemed to be obscene.
The Jets added a starting wideout to their injury report on Thursday.
Adonai Mitchell was a limited participant due to a finger injury. It’s his first appearance on the injury report for any reason this season.
Mitchell has nine catches for 123 yards through two weeks. He also drew a long pass interference penalty against the Packers in Week 2.
Safety Minkah Fitzpatrick (groin), linebacker Kiko Mauigoa (quad), running back Kene Nwangwu (back), and tight end Mason Taylor (thumb) all missed practice for the second straight day. Linebackers Joseph Ossai (foot) and David Bailey (elbow) remained limited participants.
Injury designations for Sunday’s trip to Detroit will be revealed on Friday.
The first two weeks of the Lions’ season haven’t painted the picture of a team firing on all cylinders.
Week 1 saw them give up a 21-0 lead to the Saints before rallying for a win in overtime and they fell down by 21 points during a 41-31 loss in Buffalo in Week 2. That’s led to plenty of doubts about the team’s ability to contend at a high level this season, but quarterback Jared Goff said that is just fine with him because he thinks it will bring the best out of the team.
“I’m excited to get back home and play in front of our fans for sure, but you love when the vultures start coming out,” Goff said. “Guys’ character really emerges and I know our guys in this locker room and you can see those guys stand tall and be who they are. Stand in the fire, take the shots and fight right through it. . . . We’re in a great place. Excited to get back in front of our fans.”
A win over the Jets this Sunday would keep the vultures at bay, but a loss would probably make Goff and company a little less comfortable with how they’re situated heading into October.
The Lions filled the open spot on their 53-man roster by adding an offensive lineman on Wednesday.
Center Seth McLaughlin has been signed off of the practice squad. The Lions opened two spots on Tuesday by putting safety Avonte Maddox on injured reserve and releasing linebacker Joe Bachie.
Bachie re-signed to the practice squad Wednesday and the Lions signed defensive back Bishop Fitzgerald off the Steelers’ practice squad Tuesday.
McLaughlin was elevated from the practice squad in Week 2, but did not play against the Bills. He spent the 2025 season on the Bengals’ practice squad, but did not appear in any regular season games for Cincinnati.
Ben Johnson is widely regarded as one of the best (if not the very best) play designers and play callers in the NFL. But his rise has come fairly quickly, and his experience in calling plays has been limited to two quarterbacks.
Jared Goff and Caleb Williams.
Both were the No. 1 overall picks in the draft. The Rams selected Goff in that spot 10 years ago. The Bears made Williams the top choice in 2024.
Johnson became Detroit’s offensive coordinator in 2022. For the next three years, Goff started every game. Johnson joined the Bears in 2025. Williams has started every game since Johnson’s arrival.
On Monday night — if Williams’s hamstring injury keeps him from playing — Johnson will be calling plays for Tyson Bagent (if he clears the concussion protocol) or Case Keenum.
Coaches are only as good as their players. And while Johnson has had plenty to do with getting the most out of Goff and Williams, they entered the NFL as the perceived cream of the crop. For Chicago’s key Week 3 game against the 2-0 Eagles, Johnson will be working with someone other than the first overall pick in the draft.
That doesn’t mean it won’t work. It just means it will be different. And, for Johnson specifically, unprecedented.
The Jets placed three players on injured reserve Tuesday and they may be missing another member of their offense for their Week 3 game in Detroit.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that tight end Mason Taylor is considered week-to-week due to a thumb injury. The Jets will release their first injury report of the week on Wednesday.
Taylor started each of the Jets’ first two games. He did not catch a pass in Sunday’s loss to the Packers and his two catches in Week 1’s win over the Titans resulted in a loss of two yards.
First-round pick Kenyon Sadiq, Jeremy Ruckert, and Jelani Woods are the other tight ends on their 53-man roster.
The Lions signed safety Bishop Fitzgerald off the Steelers’ practice squad on Tuesday, according to the NFL’s personnel notice.
Fitzgerald originally signed with the Titans as an undrafted rookie free agent this spring. He joined the Steelers’ practice squad after the Titans waived him out of the preseason.
Fitzgerald totaled five interceptions last season at USC. He also played collegiately at Coffeyville Community College and North Carolina State.
The Lions cut linebacker Joe Bachie and defensive back Avonte Maddox on season-ending injured reserve with a foot injury that requires surgery.
Bachie played 32 special teams snaps in the first two games but none on defense.
As the NFL has changed its overtime rules, one of the league’s priorities was de-emphasizing the coin toss. Sudden death overtime fell out of favor largely because of the big advantage it gave to the team winning the toss, and the NFL wanted an overtime format that wouldn’t make winning the coin toss important.
This year, it seems to be working.
There have been three overtime games this season, and all three times, the team that won the overtime coin toss lost the game.
In Week 1, the Saints won the toss and chose to kick. The Lions scored a touchdown and extra point on the first possession, and the Saints then scored a touchdown on the second possession. The Saints went for two, didn’t convert, and lost 31-30.
In Week 2, the Jets won the toss and chose to receive. Jets coach Aaron Glenn said he wanted to control the clock, but that didn’t happen: The Jets went three-and-out on the first possession, and the Packers quickly moved into field goal range and won 20-17.
And on Sunday night in Week 2, the Colts won the toss and, despite having a captain who didn’t know the overtime rule, eventually got their choice to kick. Colts coach Shane Steichen said he wanted to kick because he didn’t want to give Patrick Mahomes four downs on the second possession. As it turned out, the Chiefs got a field goal on the first possession, the Colts tied with their own field goal on the second possession, and the Chiefs won 33-30 with another field goal on their third possession.
The current overtime format was adopted last season, and there’s still no consensus among coaches about whether it’s better to kick or receive — as demonstrated by Glenn making a different decision than Steichen and Moore. As long as that’s the case, winning the coin toss doesn’t matter very much. And that’s as it should be.
