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The Jets’ depth looks a lot better after this offseason work of Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn.
One position group that certainly has no shortage of depth is WR, with the additions of Omar Cooper in the draft, and now the signing of Tim Patrick.
The signing of Patrick makes sense on so many levels.
First and foremost, it makes sense because he’s a really good player.
When healthy, he’s consistently produced on the NFL level, whether it was in Denver (2018-23), Detroit (2024) or Jacksonville (2025).
Wherever the guy has been, he just gets the job done.
After entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of Utah in 2018, he quickly moved up the depth chart in Denver, and played so well in 2020 and ’21, the the Broncos gave him a three-year deal for $34 million with $18.5 million guaranteed.
He earned this deal with two excellent back-to-back seasons as a full-time starter, with 79 and 85 catches, respectively, and 11 touchdowns combined.
Then, disaster hit the player on the injury front: back-to-back season-ending injuries, first a torn ACL in ’22 and then a torn Achilles in ’23.
To his credit, he bounced back from these two devastating injuries and stayed healthy in Detroit and Jacksonville the last two seasons.
Patrick’s numbers as a starter in Denver over those two seasons were particularly impressive because the team had a revolving door at QB both years. Let’s put it this way – he wasn’t playing with John Elway.
And both Mougey and Glenn have experience working with the player. Mougey, a former Denver personnel executive, was with Patrick the player’s entire time there, and Glenn was with him in Detroit in ’24. They both know the player well and like him. This isn’t a leap of faith with a street free agent that neither key decision-maker has worked with.
He’s a big, physical receiver who is good at high-pointing the ball, terrific on 50-50 balls.
He’s listed at 6-5, but he’s closer to 6-4. He measured at 6 ft 4 1⁄8 coming into the league, so unless he grew, he’s closer to 6-4.
While he is a former JAG, this guy is not a JAG (Just A Guy), a term you often hear from coaches and scouts about pedestrian players who don’t move the needle that much.
This guy is really good and was an emerging star in Denver before the injury bug hit.
He’s going to give Adanoi Mitchell a run for his money for the starting job opposite Garrett Wilson, with Omar Cooper likely playing a lot in the slot.
You have to give Mougey and Glenn a ton of credit for the job they did this off-season, improving the depth of their roster.
On paper, it’s like night and day from last year.
Last year’s roster didn’t have great depth, and in some cases, not great starters.
This year, not only should the starting lineups be better, but the depth has taken a quantum leap from 2025, with the defensive line and secondary being perfect examples. Last year, D-Line and secondary depth were a problem; it looks like the powers-that-be have rectified that problem. In the defensive tackle room, you have T’Vondre Sweat and David Onyemata as the likely starters, with Harrison Phillips and Jowon Briggs probably rotating in for them. We all know how much teams rotate defensive tackles. On paper, that looks like a pretty solid plan.
The addition of Patrick is just another example of how the Jets’ brass is focused like a laser on making sure the depth issues they had last year don’t rear their ugly head once again in 2026.
May 20, 2026
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