The New York Jets seemed to punt on the remainder of the 2025 season when they acquired future draft assets for star cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams ahead of the Nov. 4 trade deadline.
Like Gardner, wide receiver Garrett Wilson committed his future to the Jets by signing a lucrative contract extension with the club this past summer. At the time, Wilson and Gardner were viewed as key figures who were supposed to help the Jets right the ship.
Garrett Wilson now knows he’s “replaceable as hell”
“Obviously, it’s kind of a reminder of the business that we’re in,” Wilson said about the Jets’ trade-deadline moves, as ESPN’s Rich Cimini shared for a piece published Thursday. “We’re all replaceable as hell. That’s just the way I see it.”
Long before Wilson put pen to paper on his four-year, $130M extension, he raised eyebrows when he said last December that he felt the Jets had “a losing problem” or losing “gene.” In early October of this year, Wilson insisted he didn’t regret inking his deal even though the Jets opened the ongoing season with four straight losses.
Of course, he offered those comments before the Jets ended this past weekend at 2-7 and before general manager Darren Mougey pressed a figurative reset button with his trades.
While Williams and Gardner have new NFL homes, running back Breece Hall stayed with the Jets through the trade deadline even though he is out of contract after the season. Stories have suggested Hall wanted to be traded to a championship contender this fall.
Like Gardner and Wilson, Hall was drafted by the Jets in the spring of 2022. Wilson and Hall have yet to be part of a winning season with the club.
“It’s very frustrating,” Hall said about the Jets’ records since 2022. “I don’t want to compare myself to other people, but I do feel like I’m one of the better running backs in the league. But if you’re losing games, and you’re getting down early, you can’t always show that. I’m definitely at a point in my career where I’ve been here for three or four years, where we expected to win, and it didn’t happen. So it sucks, but it is what it is.”
The Jets’ next chance to win will come when they play at the red-hot New England Patriots (8-2) on Thursday night. As of Thursday morning, ESPN BET had New York as a 13.5-point underdog for that contest.
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