How many opps did Mitchell take advantage of? Let us count some of the the ways:
â– It was Mitchell’s first pro TD catch and the Jets’ longest pass of the season. It wasn’t AD’s longest catch this season, though, as he contributed a 75-yarder for the Colts at the Rams in Week 4.
â– Mitchell finished with 12 targets, eight catches for 102 yards, all career highs, leading to his first 100-yard receiving game, obviously, but also the Jets’ first 100 receiver since Davante Adams’ nine-catch, 198-yarder vs. Jacksonville in Week 15 last year. Mitchell also had four first downs and two third-down conversions.
â– While his longball was the gem, his two shorter grabs in the final minute were neat baubles as well. A 10-yarder got the Jets to second-and-5 at the ATL 38 with 20 seconds left, then his 5-yarder converted third-and-5 to the 33, in effect positioning Nick Folk for his long, lower-left-corner game-winner (after a false start) from 56 yards out,
“I feel like every play mattered in that game,” Mitchell said. “From a touchdown pass to a touchdown run to the little dinks and dunks that just happened to move the ball down the field, it was definitely a game that every little thing mattered, every detail mattered, it felt like.”
“He’s always known that he can play,” Glenn said. “He’s had some issues within his career as far as playing, but I don’t think he’s ever lost confidence in himself. I think once he got here, it just helped him with his confidence that he was wanted, and the players gravitated to him.”
Mitchell and Metchie may be known as the G&W’s M&M boys for a short while longer — AD said while Metchie works the JUGS before practice, he catches balls from the ball machine afterward, and the two are always at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center together early to soak up the details and culture that they may have missed with their late arrivals.