It looks like running back Breece Hall will be back in the Jets lineup this week.
Hall practiced in full for the first time since suffering the quad injury that has kept him out for the last five games. Hall said after practice that he is ready to play against the Chiefs.
Braelon Allen has impressed during Hall’s absence and is coming off a season-high 147 yards against the Raiders. Offensive coordinator Frank Reich was asked about how the team will balance the workload during a Thursday press conference.
“We have some plays that are tagged for one or the other, but it’s a great problem to have,” Reich said, via a transcript from the team. “You got two number one backs. Breece is obviously the bell cow, he’s our guy, but it’ll be a mix. And as far as hot hand, not hot hand, I think that’s always an in-game feel thing, it really is. My experience in it, because I’ve had that experience, I know I haven’t had two guys like this, but yeah, it’s just an in-game feel thing.”
Linebacker David Bailey (groin), linebacker Joseph Ossai (ankle), linebacker Demario Davis (rest), safety VJ Payne (knee), and tight end Mason Taylor (neck) also moved up to full participation. Defensive lineman Harrison Phillips (ankle), linebacker Trevin Wallace (groin), and wide receiver Garrett Wilson (concussion) remained out of practice.
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Chiefs cornerback Mansoor Delane missed last Sunday’s loss to the Broncos with a shoulder injury and his outlook for Week 9’s home game against the Jets looks a little better after Wednesday’s practice.
Delane was able to participate in practice on a limited basis on Wednesday. Head coach Andy Reid called Delane day-to-day earlier in the week, so the Chiefs will be looking for him to remain on a positive trajectory.
Tight end Travis Kelce (ankle), defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott (knee), wide receiver Nikko Remigio (hip), and wide receiver Rashee Rice (hamstring, knee) were also limited participants.
Defensive lineman Peter Woods (neck) was the only player out of practice while linebacker Drue Tranquill (pectoral) and quarterback Patrick Mahomes (knee) were listed as full participants.
The Jets played without rookie linebacker David Bailey in Week 8 after he missed practice all week with a groin injury, but Week 9’s practice schedule got off to a better start.
Bailey was a limited participant as the Jets prepared for this Sunday’s trip to Kansas City. The first-round pick had 5.5 sacks in the first seven games of the season.
Running back Breece Hall (quad) was also a limited participant. Hall has missed five straight games, but head coach Aaron Glenn said at his press conference that Hall is “trending in the right direction” to return this week.
Wide receiver Garrett Wilson (concussion), defensive lineman Harrison Phillips (ankle), and linebacker Demario Davis (rest) missed practice. Linebacker Joseph Ossai (ankle), tight end Mason Taylor (back), and linebacker Trevin Wallace (groin) were limited participants.
Safety VJ Payne (knee) was designated for return from injured reserve Wednesday and he was listed as a full participant in his return to practice.
Despite missing a 54-yard field goal late in Sunday’s eventual loss to the Broncos, Harrison Butker will remain the Chiefs’ kicker.
Coach Andy Reid told reporters on Wednesday that the team will not be making a change.
On Monday, Reid explained that Butker’s miss to the right came from an effort to avoid having his kick blocked. “I get it,” Reid said. “It just went a little bit too wide on it.”
Through it all, former All-Pro kicker Justin Tucker remains on the practice squad.
Butker has missed seven kicks in seven 2026 games. Obviously, his status will become more secure if he does the one thing an NFL team needs a kicker to do.
Make his kicks.
The next change comes on Sunday, when the 5-2 Chiefs host the 2-6 Jets.
The Jets may be without wide receiver Garrett Wilson in Kansas City this weekend.
Head coach Aaron Glenn said in a Wednesday press conference that Wilson is in the concussion protocol. Glenn indicated Wilson was injured on one of the final plays of last Sunday’s 38-33 loss to the Raiders.
Glenn called Wilson, who had six catches for 83 yards during the loss, day-to-day and his progress through the protocol will be tracked over the next few days. He has 43 catches for 527 yards and three touchdowns on the season.
Adonai Mitchell, Omar Cooper, Isaiah Williams, Tim Patrick, and Malik McClain are the other wideouts on the 53-man roster for the Jets.
The Jets signed offensive tackle Blake Freeland off the Bengals’ practice squad, the team announced Tuesday.
In a corresponding move, the Jets placed offensive lineman Max Mitchell on injured reserve. They also released cornerback Tre Brown from injured reserve.
Freeland joined the Bengals’ practice squad after the Colts waived him on Aug. 31. In the preseason, he played 144 offensive snaps over the Colts’ three games.
Freeland, who played collegiately at BYU, was selected by Indianapolis in the fourth round of the 2023 draft. He made nine starts as a rookie, while appearing in 15 total games. In 2024, he appeared in eight games and logged 36 special teams snaps and 23 on offense. Freeland missed the entire 2025 season with a fracture in his right leg.
Mitchell was diagnosed with a concussion during a Week 7 practice, and he has missed the past two games. This season, he has played 22 special teams snaps over the first six weeks. Mitchell, who played collegiately at Louisiana, was selected by the Jets in the fourth round of the 2022 draft and has played 51 games.
Brown went on injured reserve on Aug. 30.
The Jets’ loss to the Raiders in Week 8 dropped them to 2-6 and it left their record since hiring head coach Aaron Glenn at an unimpressive 5-20.
Five of their six losses this season have come by one score, including all three on their current losing streak, and all of those results have contributed to increased speculation about how much longer Glenn is going to be in the job. During a Monday press conference, Glenn was asked how concerned he is that the Jets might decide to make a change.
“There’s so much that I think about when it comes to us improving each week that that really doesn’t come across my mind to be honest with you,” Glenn said, via a transcript from the team. “I understand how this league is, I understand what this business is about, but my first job is each week of improving this team and that’s the only thing that I think about.”
Glenn did make it clear that he understands there need to be concrete signs of improvement soon.
“Absolutely. I mean, that’s what this is,” Glenn said. “It’s a bottom-line business and we have to win, but we still have nine games left, so we still have an opportunity to win nine games.”
That opportunity starts in Kansas City this week and missing out on it will only turn the heat under Glenn’s seat higher.
Chiefs rookie cornerback Mansoor Delane has been battling through a shoulder injury throughout the season.
It kept him out of Sunday’s loss to the Broncos, with Delane being downgraded from questionable to out on Saturday.
At this point, it’s unclear if Delane will be able to return for Kansas City’s Week 9 matchup against the Jets.
“It’s just a matter of it being strong enough to get out there,” head coach Andy Reid said in his Monday news conference, via Nate Taylor of ESPN. “There’s a chance that he’ll be able to get himself out there this week. Again, it’s just how strong it is. It’s going to be a day-to-day thing.”
The No. 6 overall pick of this year’s draft, Delane has recorded five passes defensed, three tackles for loss, and an interception in five games. We’ll see if Delane is able to participate in Kansas City’s first practice of the week on Wednesday.
Breece Hall missed his fifth straight game with a quad injury on Sunday and Braelon Allen continued to shine in his absence.
Allen ran 21 times for 147 yards and a touchdown in the 38-33 loss to the Raiders and he’s averaging just over 100 yards a game while Hall has been out of the lineup. Hall has practiced the last two weeks and he’s been scratched after being listed as questionable, which has joined Allen’s performance as reasons for some to wonder if the Jets might be thinking about trading Hall ahead of the November 10 deadline.
At a Monday morning press conference, head coach Aaron Glenn said that will not happen.
“Breece is still a part of this team,” Glenn said, via Zack Rosenblatt of TheAthletic.com. “I’ve said it before: We’re in the business of keeping good players and he’s one of our better players so he’ll be here.”
The Jets have also reportedly rebuffed overtures from teams interested in trading for wide receiver Garrett Wilson, so it does not appear that their 2-6 start is going to lead to a fire sale over the next week.
If someone flipped on Sunday’s game between the Raiders and the Jets in the fourth quarter, they would have been forgiven for wondering if the Raiders were the home team at MetLife Stadium.
Raiders fans were loud enough in big moments of the game to contribute to a Jets false start and the interception by Raiders safety Jeremy Chinn to seal the 38-33 win was greeted with lusty cheers by those same fans. The loss dropped the Jets to 2-6 on the season and wide receiver Garrett Wilson said after the game that it is up to the Jets to do more to convince their own fans to make that kind of an impact.
“They had some fans in the building,” Wilson said, via SNY. “We gotta handle it. . . . We got to give our fans a reason to come out. I get it. As a team we got to operate better, regardless of the noise.”
The Jets are on their way to a 16th straight season without a trip to the playoffs and that run of futility makes it more surprising that they still have enough supporters turning out on Sundays to make it a surprise when the visiting side dominates the stands.
