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Getty Images Temple center Matt Hennessy was a wanted man in the third round of the NFL draft. Hennessy went to the Falcons with the 78th overall pick, but if he hadn’t, he was about to go to the Broncos with the 79th overall pick. The New York Daily News reports that the Jets, who owned the...

Getty Images Running back Le'Veon Bell‘s first season with the Jets wasn’t as productive as many hoped it would be when the Jets signed Bell as a free agent in March 2019. Bell ran for a career-low 3.2 yards per carry and only found the end zone four times as the Jets went 7-9 under head coach...

Getty Images The Top 10 of the 2017 NFL draft had some notable misses. That’s why half of the Top 10 picks had their fifth-year options declined. Generally speaking, a player who has performed up to expectations will have his fifth-year option picked up, while a player who has fallen short...

Getty Images The Jets had plenty of needs entering the draft, and they did a good job of addressing many of them. Coach Adam Gase recently joined #PFTPM to discuss the team’s selections, along with the unprecedented process that resulted in coaches and General Managers working from home during...

Getty Images The Jets opened up the draft by taking tackle Mekhi Becton and wide receiver Denzel Mims with their first two picks and added running back La’Mical Perine later in the draft in a series of moves that continued an offseason trend for the team. They signed four offensive linemen and...

Getty Images Jets General Manager Joe Douglas has said multiple times that the team wants to sign safety Jamal Adams to a long-term contract, but there’s been no agreement with the 2017 first-round pick at this point. It’s unclear if there will be one before the 2020 season gets underway, but...

Getty Images Any offseason work being done by NFL teams right now is going on remotely and much has been made of the difficulties that presents for everyone involved as they try to prepare for playing games at some point this year. Jets head coach Adam Gase does not think that any of those...

Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...

Getty Images It’s not known what the Seahawks have offered defensive end Jadeveon Clowney. However, the team’s decision not to extend a UFA tender to Clowney means that whatever Seattle has offered falls below a 10-percent bump over what he made in 2019. With a total salary of $15 million last...

Getty Images It was natural to wonder whether the technological challenges of the stay-at-home 2020 NFL Draft might preclude trades, the actual reason there were fewer at the top was the old fashioned kind. Teams kept wanting to take players they wanted. Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht...

Getty Images When Sam Darnold went down last year, the Jets’ offense went into free fall. This year, the Jets hope they have found a potential backup to Darnold who can actually play. That quarterback is James Morgan of Florida International, a strong-armed passer who has plenty of work to do...

Getty Images The Jets had Lac Edwards, a seventh-round choice in 2016, as their punter the past four seasons. But after a 45.9 yards average, which ranked 15th in the NFL, and a 41.6 net, which ranked 12th, the Jets decided not to re-sign him. They have Ian Berryman on their roster, but after...

Getty Images The Colts were hoping Quincy Wilson would become a regular for them when they used a second-round pick on him in 2017. They just swapped him for pennies on that dollar, sending him to the Jets in exchange for a sixth-rounder (211th overall). Wilson started 10 games in his first...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers moved up from No. 14 to No. 13 to get tackle Tristan Wirfs, Washington lost a potential suitor for tackle Trent Williams. Per a league source, the Buccaneers would have made a play for Williams if they hadn’t landed Wirfs in round one. And so Williams...

Getty Images The Jets’ first pick of the draft’s second day will have to wait. The Seahawks sent the 59th and 101st overall picks to the Jets in order to take the No. 48 spot. They used the pick to select defensive end Darrell Taylor. He joins first-round linebacker Jordyn Brooks as new...

Getty Images The Jets waited longer than expected to make their first pick of the NFL Draft’s second day, but their chance finally came with the 59th overall pick. They took former Baylor wide receiver Denzel Mims with the 59th overall pick. They acquired that pick and the 101st overall pick...

Getty Images In January, the Packers learned the hard way that a team with a great running game will beat a team with an all-time great quarterback in a single-elimination setting. So instead of using their first three picks to bolster the run defense or to give their all-time great quarterback...

Getty Images Former Louisville tackle Mekhi Becton landed just outside the top 10, becoming the newest member of the New York Jets. It’s unclear whether he ended up being taken behind two other tackles due in part to a failed drug test at the Scouting Combine. Regardless, it happened, the teams...

Getty Images The Jets and the Johnson family donated $1 million to the United Way’s COVID-19 relief efforts on March 23 and they announced another donation on Thursday. They announced another $2 million donation to support pandemic relief in New York and New Jersey. “On behalf of my family...

Getty Images The Jets officially announced several previously reported free agent signings on Thursday and they also passed along word that four exclusive rights free agents have signed their tenders. Linebackers B.J. Bello and Frankie Luvu, kicker Sam Ficken and offensive lineman Leo...