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.
As the football-following world began to come to terms with the possibility that the Packers could be very bad this year, Cowboys fans began to perk up.
Thanks to the Micah Parsons trade, the Cowboys hold Green Bay’s first-round pick in 2027. So, the worse the Packers do, the higher the 2027 first-round pick climbs.
But there’s an important caveat, which works to the benefit of the New York Jets.
The trade that sent defensive tackle Quinnen Williams to Dallas includes an important term as to the 2027 first-round pick the Jets received. It’s not necessarily the Cowboys’ pick. It’s the higher of the two picks the Cowboys will have.
Which means that, if the Packers bottom out (and the Cowboys don’t), the Jets get the Green Bay first-round pick in 2027.
The Jets, of course, failed to help themselves on Sunday, when they blew a 10-point lead to the Packers and mismanaged the late-game and overtime scenarios.
Still, it’s good news for the Jets. Especially since they also hold the Colts’ first-round pick for 2027 — and the Colts are 0-2.
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.
Jets head coach Aaron Glenn took a lot of heat for his clock management after the team’s 20-17 overtime loss to the Packers last Sunday, but it wasn’t the only coaching decision to come under scrutiny.
There was also a decision to call a running play out of the shotgun on 4th-and-1 at midfield with the score tied late in the fourth quarter. Running back Braelon Allen got stuffed for no gain and the Jets didn’t get the ball back before the end of regulation.
On Thursday, offensive coordinator Frank Reich said that five years of data shows that running out of the gun is “percentage-wise” more successful than running out of non-shotgun formations because of the added threat of a pass. The percentages for running the ball in those situations are also better than passing it, but Reich said that doesn’t mean they won’t throw it if he thinks that’s the best call at the moment.
“The bottom line is I’m always going to call what I think is the best play in that moment,” Reich said, via Dennis Waszak of the Associated Press. “And that’s what I did in the game. When it doesn’t work out, it’s, sure, you’re upset about it. You think, ‘Ah, maybe I should have called something else.’ Because it didn’t work. But you’ve got to live with the results. I’m comfortable and confident in the calls that we called.”
Reich called it a “fair question” to ask about using tight end Kenyon Sadiq on a tush push-type play, but pointed out that the first-round pick missed most of the summer after having hernia surgery. That may be something in play for the future, but it wasn’t in the cards in a Week 2 that ended badly for the Jets.
The Jets put starting defensive lineman David Onyemata on injured reserve this week and head coach Aaron Glenn shared an update on his outlook at a Wednesday press conference.
Glenn said that Onyemata had core muscle surgery after leaving Sunday’s overtime loss to the Packers. Glenn said that the team expects Onyemata to return later in the season.
The Jets signed Onyemata as a free agent this offseason. He played in 154 games for New Orleans and Atlanta before joining the AFC East club.
Glenn also announced that wide receiver Arian Smith will miss the rest of the season after having ACL surgery.
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 Jets are placing three players on injured reserve, Rich Cimini of ESPN reports.
Wide receiver Arian Smith (knee), defensive lineman David Onyemata (groin) and linebacker Marcelino McCrary-Ball (ankle) were injured in Sunday’s overtime loss to the Packers.
The three players must miss a minimum of four games before returning.
The Jets have been hit hard at the wide receiver position with Tim Patrick (groin) and Omar Cooper Jr. (high ankle) already on injured reserve.
McCrary-Ball is a core special teams player, having played five defensive snaps and 26 on special teams this season. He was carted off the field on Sunday.
Darrell Jackson will see more snaps in Onyemata’s absence.
In corresponding moves, according to Brian Costello of the New York Post, the Jets are signing wide receiver Malik McClain, defensive end Jack Heflin and linebacker Troy Reeder to the 53-player roster from the practice squad.
The team signed quarterback Will Levis, linebacker Jaden Keller, defensive lineman Isaiahh Loudermilk and tight end Cody Hardy to the practice squad and released quarterback Bailey Zappe from the practice squad.
Will Levis has been out of the NFL since being cut by the Titans in August, but that’s set to change.
According to multiple reports, Levis is going to sign to the Jets’ practice squad. Levis worked out for the team earlier this month.
Levis was a 2023 second-round pick in Tennessee and he started nine games during his rookie season. He won the starting job in 2024, but went 2-10 as a starter and missed time with a shoulder injury before being benched for the final two games of the year. The Titans drafted Cam Ward first overall in 2025 and Levis wound up missing the whole year after having shoulder surgery.
Levis threw for 3,899 yards, 21 touchdowns and 16 interceptions while completing 61 percent of his passes across his 21 starts.
Geno Smith is the Jets starter with rookie Cade Klubnik as his backup. Bailey Zappe is currently on their practice squad.
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.
