{"id":126680,"date":"2025-06-13T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/126680\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:07:13","slug":"jets-tight-end-jeremy-ruckert-will-do-whatever-the-jets-need-me-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/126680\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Tight End Jeremy Ruckert Will Do Whatever the Jets Need Me to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jets’ tight ends room has a new look and new faces with the drafting of Mason Taylor<\/a> and the signing in free agency of Stone Smartt<\/a>. There is a bridge to the past few seasons and perhaps to a bright future in Jeremy Ruckert<\/a>, the Long Island native who is preparing for his fourth season with the Green & White.<\/p>\n

With Tyler Conklin leaving in free agency and Taylor, drafted in the second round (No. 42) overall out of LSU, and the addition of Smartt, Ruckert faces a challenge for playing time and chances to catch the ball.<\/p>\n

“I think mainly this year I’m just focusing on myself and where we need to go as a team, just continue to grow and continue to get better,” Ruckert said on Tuesday, the first day of mandatory minicamp at 1 Jets Drive. “I’ve always played by the motto of just whatever they need me to do. I’m going to do whatever they want, whatever they need me to do, I’m going to do it. And I think that the biggest thing for this season is get these young guys rolling. I think our room is awesome. I think we’re going in the right direction. I think this offseason has been mostly about building this culture and the standard that we need to play with. And I’m super excited about that and continue to get that role in training camp.”<\/p>\n

Still, Ruckert (6-5, 250), who has 35 receptions for 264 yards in limited time on the field (37% of offensive snaps last season) his first three seasons, knows the drafting of Taylor will have an impact.<\/p>\n

“Mason’s a great kid, super talented, just kind of get his feet wet, get him rolling,” Ruckert said. “And a big addition to the room, the more you can do as a room and keep defenses, keep defenses on their toes. So just trying to bring him along show him the ropes. I know he’s got a lot of experience with his dad [Hall of Fame DE Jason Taylor] telling him what it’s like.<\/p>\n

“But again, the standard that we’re trying to set, I’m gonna really take that personal to bring these guys along with me and show Coach Glenn that I could be a guy to rally behind and get these guys going. I’m self-motivated, whether it’s him [Taylor] in the second round, whether it’s someone they want to bring in [Smartt]. Everybody’s kind of trying to take someone’s job. You should worry about yourself. Control the controllables. Show up to work every day, try and get better yourself. That makes the team better. Just worried about that and continue to grow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets’ tight ends room has a new look and new faces with the drafting of Mason Taylor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,2314,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-126680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jeremy-ruckert","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114676213258076426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}