This marks the 15th year of our annual summer countdown, ranking the top 25 players on the Jets roster. It’s hard to remember a time when we’ve seen so much transformation in one offseason.
The current list features only 10 players who appeared in the 2025 edition. General Manager Darren Mougey, along with Head Coach Aaron Glenn, have overhauled a roster that is almost unrecognizable from their initial lineup. The question remains: is it an improvement? We are about to delve into that, assessing the roster’s potential based on its current lineup.
As a quick note, we don’t include rookies in the ranking because predicting their performance in the NFL remains speculative at best.
Before unveiling this year’s selections, let’s review the players who have fallen off from last year’s list, with their previous rankings in parentheses: Sauce Gardner (1), Quinnen Williams (2), Quincy Williams (4), John Simpson (6), Alijah Vera-Tucker (8), Michael Carter II (9), Jermaine Johnson (10), Justin Fields (12), Allen Lazard (14), Andre Cisco (18), Xavier Gipson (19), Tony Adams (21), Josh Reynolds (22), Tyrod Taylor (23), and Jeremy Ruckert (25).