{"id":155509,"date":"2025-06-24T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/155509\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:31:10","slug":"jets-could-bolster-defense-by-splash-signing-two-time-pro-bowl-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/155509\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Could Bolster Defense By ‘Splash’ Signing Two-Time Pro Bowl Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jets Could Bolster Defense By ‘Splash’ Signing Two-Time Pro Bowl Safety<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York Jets take a lot of pride in their defense, especially their ability to defend the pass. But the team has parted ways with a few safeties this offseason, and it could be in the team’s best interests to replace them.<\/p>\n

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And they could look at one of the best free agents available to be that replacement.<\/p>\n

In a recent article by SNY’s Connor Hughes<\/a>, he talks a bit about the state of the Jets this offseason, and he proposes that the team could think about signing veteran safety Justin Simmons to improve their defense even further.<\/p>\n

“The Jets can certainly make a splash with $22 million in cap space. That\u2019s more than enough to add a player and keep enough in the cache to cover players signed to replace those who land on the injured reserve,” Hughes wrote. “Safety could be a spot, though. Julian Blackmon and Justin Simmons are both available. The Jets love Andre Cisco. Tony Adams is a little bit of a question mark next to him.”<\/p>\n

Simmons, faded though he is, is a two-time Pro Bowler. That would be the “splash” move here.<\/p>\n

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Safeties Ashtyn Davis, Chuck Clark, and Jalen Mills all did not return to the Jets for a number of different reasons. With how solid they all were this past season, it will be an adjustment to play without them.<\/p>\n

With the Atlanta Falcons this past season, Simmons finished with 62 total tackles, with 36 of them being solo. He was also able to show his ball-hawk skills by deflecting seven passes and snagging a couple of interceptions.<\/p>\n

The Jets are coming off of a season where they finished 5-12, so the team could be looking to sign some players in free agency to help them redeem themselves. And Simmons could be a very intriguing option.<\/p>\n

Related: Jets’ Offense Leaning Toward Being One-Dimensional With Fields<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Second-Year Jets Receiver Facing Brutally Frank Reality<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 24, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets Could Bolster Defense By ‘Splash’ Signing Two-Time Pro Bowl Safety originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[12072,17003,254,9036,10048,7,35295,226,6990,6559,1917,255,2321,2097,6,796,22351],"class_list":{"0":"post-155509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-andre-cisco","9":"tag-ashtyn-davis","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-chuck-clark","12":"tag-connor-hughes","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jalen-mills","15":"tag-jets","16":"tag-julian-blackmon","17":"tag-justin-simmons","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-jets","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkjets","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-the-jets","24":"tag-tony-adams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155509","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=155509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}