Despite a 3-14 season, did the New York Jets see any of their players make the 2025 NFL AP All-Pro team?
Here are the official voting results for New York, per the Associated Press.
Jets’ 2025 All-Pro voting
No Jets players made the 2025 All-Pro team.
However, four players received votes across six different positions. All four players hail from the Jets’ touted special teams unit, which recorded the fifth-highest DVOA rating in NFL history. No offensive or defensive players received a single vote.
Veteran kicker Nick Folk placed sixth at his position with 12 points, earning three first-place votes (worth three points each) and three second-place votes (worth one point each) across the panel of 50 voters.
Second-year punter Austin McNamara narrowly missed second-team All-Pro honors. His 31 points (eight first-place votes, seven second-place votes) ranked third at his position, only nine points behind second-team All-Pro Michael Dickson of the Seahawks.
Kene Nwangwu ranked fifth among kick returners, earning 18 points through five first-place votes and three second-place votes. Isaiah Williams placed seventh among kick returners, with four second-place votes.
Williams also placed fifth among punt returners (11 points) and received one first-place vote as a “special teamer,” although somebody probably made a mistake there, considering that Williams did not have a single tackle this year, and the special teamer category is intended to be for non-returners.
Were the Jets snubbed?
Should Folk have been an All-Pro? There is an argument to be made, although it is understandable why he ranked where he did.
Folk tied San Francisco’s Eddy Pineiro for the league’s best field goal percentage at 96.6%. Folk also made all of his extra-point attempts, whereas Pineiro missed four, making Folk the league’s most accurate kicker.
However, Folk ranked 19th in field goal attempts (29), 14th in attempts from 50+ yards, and 30th in extra point attempts (22). Playing for a dismal Jets team, Folk did not get nearly as many attempts as his peers.
It is understandable that the voters did not deem Folk’s volume high enough to compete with kickers like first-team All-Pro Will Reichard of the Vikings. Reichard made 91.7% of his field goals on 48 attempts, connected on 11-of-13 kicks from 50+ yards, and made all 31 of his extra point attempts.
Despite failing to make his first career All-Pro appearance, this is the third consecutive season in which Folk led the NFL in field goal percentage among qualifiers. He also just set a career-high with a 58-yard field goal this year. The 41-year-old is only getting better with age, and the Jets should be eager to bring him back in 2026.
McNamara is the Jet player with the best argument for an All-Pro snub. He captained the top-ranked punt return unit in the NFL based on DVOA. Individually, McNamara ranked second in average hang time (4.70 seconds), second in Pro Football Focus’ punting grade (90.3), first in punts downed (18), second in fair catches forced (25), and second in lowest percentage of punts returned (29.6%).
As for the Jets’ returners, the voters took issue with the lack of volume.
Nwangwu tied for the NFL lead with one kick return touchdown; he was one of six players to score in that phase. Most importantly, his 33.6 yards per return ranked first among players with at least 15 returns. However, Nwangwu only returned 18 kicks, ranking 37th. First-team All-Pro returner Ray Davis of the Bills maintained a 30.4-yard average on 31 returns (10th-most).
While it is understandable to rank Davis ahead of Nwangwu based on volume, there is a fair argument that Nwangwu should have been a second-team All-Pro. The actual second-team All-Pro kick returner, KaVontae Turpin, had a league-leading 69 attempts, but did not score any touchdowns and averaged just 26.3 yards per kick return, barely above the league average (25.9).
In fact, part of the reason why Nwangwu returned so few kicks was that, by the end of the season, opponents were so afraid of the Jets’ kick return unit that they were kicking the ball through the back of the end zone on almost every kickoff. The sheer intimidation of Nwangwu and Williams presented the Jets’ offense with consistent starts at their own 35-yard line, which is a net positive.
In the punt return game, Williams simply had too much competition.
As impressive as he was, earning the Jets’ team MVP award, Williams was one of a whopping five players who scored two punt return touchdowns. Among those players, his 14.1-yard return average was only third, and it’s the two players above him, Tennessee’s Chimere Dike (17.3) and New England’s Marcus Jones (17.3), who received first- and second-team All-Pro honors, respectively.
Ultimately, McNamara is the player with the strongest case for a spot. Folk and Nwangwu have solid arguments, but it is understandable why they ranked where they did.
The harsh reality is that, when you get outscored by a league-worst 203 points, voters will not give you the benefit of the doubt. If the Jets want voters to respect their players, the team needs to put out a more respectable product.