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The Jets join BUF as the only teams in the NFL this season with multiple players to record 100-yard rushing games and multiple players to record 100-yard receiving games:
Rushing: Braelon Allen (2), Breece Hall (1)
Receiving: Garrett Wilson (2), Omar Cooper Jr. (2), Kenyon Sadiq (1)
Source: TruMedia
Jet rookies have won four Pepsi Rookie of the Week awards this season, including four of the last five. During that stretch, all three Jets first-round picks, Omar Cooper Jr., David Bailey and Kenyon Sadiq, have earned the honor.
The Jets now own an NFL-best 27 Rookie of the Week awards since the program began in 2002, breaking a tie with GB.
The Jets offense has scored on its opening possession in three games this season, while the defense has not allowed points on an opponent's opening possession in five games. New York is one of only three teams to meet both marks, joining SF and GB.
Source: TruMedia
The Jets have forced 10 fumbles this season, the second-most in the league behind only LV, and the most by a Jet defense after six games since 2001.
EDGE David Bailey is one of just six players with three forced fumbles on the year, and the first rookie to reach three in just six career games since 2022. He joins Pro Football Hall of Famer Julius Peppers and Chandler Jones as the only players this century to register 5.0 sacks and three forced fumbles within their first six career games.
Source: TruMedia
RB Braelon Allen is one of only three players this season to record four or more carries of 10+ yards in consecutive games, joining Kenneth Walker III (KC) and James Cook (BUF).
Source: TruMedia
EDGE Kingsley Enagbare owns a 14.7% run stop rate this season, the fifth-highest mark among the 89 edge defenders with at least 50 snaps against the run.
The Jets are one of only four teams with multiple edge rushers who have recorded 10+ run stops this season, as David Bailey (12) and Kingsley Enagbare (10) have both reached double digits.
Source: Next Gen Stats
S Minkah Fitzpatrick owns a 100.0% tackle efficiency this season, tied for the highest rate among all safeties with at least 25 tackle attempts on the year. He’s joined in the top 10 by teammate Dane Belton (95.8%), the only tandem in the league to appear in the top 10 together.
Source: Next Gen Stats
QB Geno Smith has thrown five touchdowns of 20+ yards this season, tied with Trevor Lawrence (JAX) and Brock Purdy (SF) for the most in the NFL. The Jets have scored six touchdowns of 20+ yards overall, tied with Jacksonville and Washington for the league lead.
Source: TruMedia
Additionally, Cooper (2nd career game) and Sadiq (3rd career game) are the only rookie teammates in NFL History to each have 100+ yard games in their first three career games.
Since tackles were first officially tracked in 1994, EDGE David Bailey is the only NFL player with 30+ total tackles, 5.0+ sacks, and one+ forced fumble through six career games.
Source: Stats Perform
WR Omar Cooper Jr. and TE Kenyon Sadiq are the third rookie tandem in franchise history to each record a 100-yard receiving game in the same season, joining Rich Caster and Eddie Bell (1970) and Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall (2022).
Source: Stats Perform
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QB Geno Smith joins Jared Goff (DET) as the only quarterbacks this season with 100+ completions, 1,000+ yards, 100+ passer rating, and no interceptions. He’s one of just eight quarterbacks in NFL History (since 1950) to hit all four marks while starting in each of the team’s first five games.
Source: Stats Perform
Six different Jets recorded a sack in the team's Week Five win: David Bailey (3.0), Dane Belton (1.0), Jarvis Brownlee Jr. (1.0), Jowon Briggs (1.0), Darrell Jackson Jr. (1.0), and Will McDonald IV (1.0).
Five of those six players (Bailey, Belton, Brownlee, Briggs, & Jackson) are aged 25 or younger, becoming the first team since 2023 (DET) to have five players aged 25 or younger each record a sack in the same game.
Source: Elias Sports Bureau
WR Garrett Wilson eclipsed 4,000 career receiving yards with his 104-yard performance vs. Cleveland. He's the 13th player in franchise history with 4,000 receiving yards and the first to do so in fewer than 70 games since Keyshawn Johnson in 1999.
Source: Stats Perform
EDGE David Bailey established a career-high 3.0 sacks in Sunday's Week Five win, becoming just the seventh rookie over the last 25 seasons (since 2002) to produce a 3.0 sack game within five career games, and the first to do so since 2022 (Aidan Hutchinson). Notably, Hutchinson also accomplished the feat under Aaron Glenn, who was then the defensive coordinator with DET. Prior to Hutchinson, the last occurrence was in 2006.
Source: Stats Perform
