The Jets sit at 2-4 after six weeks, and that record feels pretty familiar to anyone who has followed this team long enough. New York could have been 3-3 with a different result against the Green Bay Packers, but even with that blown lead in the mix, it’s not exactly a disaster of a start.
Still, it’s hard not to glance around the league and track the former Jets still making noise elsewhere. A few of them are helping new teams win.
A few are making the Jets’ future look a little better. And one in particular may have just gotten a general manager fired.
Robert Saleh finally put a win on the board with the Tennessee Titans, who had opened the year 0-5 before pulling off a 26-20 road victory over the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. The former Jets head coach got his first Tennessee win in Week 6, and the result dropped the Colts to 2-4. That also gives New York’s first-round pick an even better look.
Jermaine Johnson’s year in Tennessee has not exactly taken off. The former Jets first-rounder has been reunited with Saleh, but his production has lagged, and his Pro Football Focus pass-rush grade of 50.8 ranks 109th out of 115 qualified players in 2026.
He did, however, show up in a big way against Indianapolis with two sacks in Week 6. Even that came with a silver lining for the Jets, since it helped improve their draft position.
Aaron Rodgers is still doing enough to keep the Pittsburgh Steelers rolling. Nobody is pretending he’s the version of Rodgers from his prime, but he’s playing well enough to keep Pittsburgh in the hunt every week.
In Week 6, he helped steer the Steelers to a 26-19 overtime win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, moving Pittsburgh to 4-2. Rodgers is tied for fourth in the league with 12 touchdown passes.
Quinnen Williams’ move to the Dallas Cowboys has not delivered the early payoff either side probably wanted. Dallas is sitting at 2-4, and Williams has opened the season in a relatively ordinary way by his standards.
PFF has him 47th among defensive tackles with an overall grade of 63.4. There’s still time for things to change, but that 2027 first-round pick is starting to look more attractive from New York’s side.
Then there’s Sauce Gardner, whose start with the Colts has been rocky enough to raise eyebrows. Gardner is grading out as PFF’s 54th-best cornerback so far this season, and the bigger news came around him: the general manager who made the trade for him, Chris Ballard, was fired.
In Other News...
Jets Offensive Debate Is Getting Harder To Ignore
Aaron Glenn has backed Frank Reich publicly, saying the offensive coordinator has done a good job while the Jets work through a season defined by injuries and inconsistency on that side of the ball. The bigger picture is hard to miss: New York is sitting near the bottom of the league in points per game, red-zone efficiency and third-down conversions, a reminder that the offense has not found enough rhythm to support the rest of the roster.
The frustration is starting to show up in the broader conversation around the team, too, with multiple outlets placing the Jets in the NFLs lower tier because of how often drives stall once they get close to scoring range. There is still some interest in what young players like Omar Cooper Jr. can add, but the more immediate question is whether the current offensive setup can clean up the spots that keep biting them before the season slips further away. [Read more 🡒]
Jets Fans Just Got A Hopeful Reminder From The Knicks
For a franchise that has spent years trying to crawl out of its own long-running slump, the Knicks rise has to feel oddly familiar around Florham Park. New York spent the better part of two decades waiting for the basketball team to matter again, and now the citys other green-and-white tenant has a fresh example of what patience, steadier leadership and a real turnaround can eventually look like.
The Jets have not won a Super Bowl or a playoff game since 2011, and the losing seasons have piled up in the years since, but this season has offered a few signs that the tide might finally be shifting. Whether the current progress turns into something lasting is still the open question, and the next stretch of games will say a lot about whether this looks like a brief uptick or the start of something closer to the Knicks late-arriving breakthrough. [Read more 🡒]
Aaron Glenn Had To Explain A Strange Jets Sideline Mix-Up
Aaron Glenn spent part of Monday explaining a small but notable sideline mix-up from halftime, one that caught attention because it came in the middle of a game day interview. During the break, the Jets coach made a statement suggesting New York would receive the second-half kickoff, even though that did not happen.
When asked about it the next day, Glenn moved quickly to clarify what he meant, saying he was speaking more broadly about the offense needing to sustain drives rather than the specific kickoff situation. The explanation was reported by multiple outlets, and the moment was brief, but it was the kind of detail that can linger when a team is still trying to clean up its communication as much as its play. [Read more 🡒]