Through 10 games of the 2025 regular season, the New York Jets are closing in on an unwanted place in NFL history.

The Jets have recorded just one takeaway all season, a lone forced fumble in their international game, and remain without an interception. Their interception-less drought ties them with the 2017 Raiders for the longest to start a season.

If they fail to pick one off next week against the Baltimore Ravens, the Jets will stand alone at the top of that list.

For head coach Aaron Glenn, a former Pro Bowl corner known for generating turnovers, the situation has become difficult to comprehend.

Jets’ turnover issue

As a player in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Glenn built his career on takeaways, finishing with 41 interceptions across 15 seasons. That background only heightens the surprise surrounding his defense’s inability to create turnovers.

Following Thursday’s 27–14 loss to the New England Patriots, Glenn admitted the numbers are baffling.

“To have one takeaway at this point in the season, it’s tough to even imagine that, because you have tipped balls, you have things like that, that you usually get interceptions on,” Glenn said. “I don’t know if it’s bad luck, I don’t know.”

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The Jets had multiple opportunities Thursday night. They dropped a potential interception on a deep pass that saw two defenders collide with each other. Moments like those have defined their season — close calls and missed chances that ultimately amount to nothing.

“I can’t finger-point that, or put my hands on that, but that’s something that we’ve got to do a better job, because we do a good amount of zone, we do a good amount of man coverage,” Glenn said.

New York has not been shredded by opposing offenses every week. The Jets are a respectable 19th in yards per game allowed (329.7). But in the modern NFL, defenses need takeaways to tilt games in their favor.

Right now, the Jets simply aren’t producing any.

How it gets fixed

While Glenn doesn’t have the answers yet, one of his defensive leaders believes the solution starts with a shift in mentality.

Linebacker Quincy Williams said the unit’s mindset regarding turnovers needs to change before anything else can improve.

“It’s not good enough,” Williams said. “I am going be honest with you, having our mindset now on takeaways is going to be the way we win. Also, scoring on defense, and then getting the ball to the offense as many times as possible.”

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Turnover production often ebbs and flows across seasons, but the Jets’ stretch of inconsistency has now spanned multiple years. Even in seasons when they ranked among the league’s top defenses, forcing mistakes was never a strength.

If they can reshape their approach and become more aggressive in attacking the ball, there’s still time to salvage their defensive identity.

Picking off a pass in Baltimore next week would break the Jets free of the wrong kind of history and set them on the right track to shifting their defensive mindset moving forward.