Three sets of statistical trends, records, marks and highlights by the Jets during the 2025 season. Today: Year-End Wrap Part II — Offense and Defense
Offense: More on Breece, Garrett and the OL
The offense struggled in several areas, but not so much in the running game. The team finished tied for 10th in the NFL in rush yards/game, their best finish since the 2015 team finished 10th, and their 4.80 yards/carry came in 8th and was the 3rd-best average in franchise history.
And Breece Hall led the way. His first 1,000-yard rushing season and the Jets' first since Chris Ivory in 2015 has been well-noted, as has his penchant for 50-yard scrimmage plays. Some other Breece-y notes: He led the Jets for the 2nd time in 3 seasons in total first downs, this time with 69, the best by a Jet, any position, since WR Brandon Marshall had 76 in '15. And Hall's 12 "explosives" (scrimmage plays of 20-plus yards) plus his 14 in '23 give him 2 of the top 7 explosive seasons by a Jets RB in franchise history.
The oddity of Garrett Wilson's year is that while he played in only 7 games due to his knee injury, he still led the Jets with 395 receiving yards. Needless to say, that snapped Wilson's 80-catch/1,000-yard streak at 3 seasons, and it's the least receiving yardage by a team leader in Jets annals, lower than previous "leader" WR David Knight's 403 yards in 1979. But Wilson can still achieve Jets history in '26 if he leads the team in receiving yardage for the 5th straight season. No other Jet has managed more than 4 consecutive seasons leading the team in the category. Don Maynard (1967-70) and Rob Moore (1991-94) are the only other receivers with 4 in a row.
Last but not least under the offensive heading is the O-line. It's been documented that they were the only NFL team to start the same 5 linemen in all their games this season and the first Jets team to do it since 2012. To increase their availability profile, the line of Olu Fashanu, John Simpson, Josh Myers, Joe Tippmann and Armand Membou played 99.2% of the OL snaps this season. And they were only the 6th Jets OL to start all games in a season together in the last 50 years. The other lines with perfect attendance: the '98, '00, '08, '09 and '12 quintets.
Defense: Jamien, Jowon and MM Show Out
Jamien Sherwood is the latest to join the 11 Hundred Club. Since the start of 17-game seasons in 2021, only 8 Jets had reached 1,100 scrimmage snaps in a season, with only MLB C.J. Mosley and G Laken Tomlinson doing it twice. MLB Sherwood becomes the 9th to do it, with a numerologically nifty 1,111 defensive snaps. Sherwood also amassed 154 tackles for the second consecutive season, making him one of only 2 Jets defenders to clear 150-plus tackles twice since 1994. The other was, of course, Mosley, who did it from 2021-23.
Sherwood also unofficially led the Jets in total tackles at or behind the line (on sacks, rushes and receptions) with 17.5 tackles, unseating four-time defending team titlist Quincy Williams.
More Jowon Briggs, please. The 2nd-year DL arrived in trade from Cleveland on Aug. 20 and got up to speed quickly. Briggs, from his interior line post, finished 2nd on the Jets in sacks (4.0), tackles for loss/no gain (8.5) and QB hits (10) and 4th in total tackles at or behind the line (12.5).
S Malachi Moore led all NFL rookie DBs this season with 95 total tackles, and in the process became the first Jets rookie DB with 90-plus tackles in a season in the last 20 years. Not a lot of rookie safeties get the chance to log 900-plus snaps and 90-plus tackles, but two who did were Kerry Rhodes (106 tackles in 2005) and Erik Coleman (100 tackles in '04).
Improvement via the Penalty Reduction Plan
The last note in this series is on the Jets' penalty improvement under HC Aaron Glenn and his staff, and the reduction was significant. In 2023-24, the Jets led the NFL in most penalties (124 and 137), and in '24 they topped the list for most penalty yards (1,134).
This season, although penalties were a sore spot in some games, the Jets improved their standing quite a bit. Their 110 penalties were 14th-most in the league and their 909 penalty yards were 12th-most. Also worth noting: Their 9 unnecessary roughness calls were their fewest in a season since '22, and their 3 roughing-the-passer penalties were their fewest since the 2016 defense was flagged for roughing just once.
