{"id":347376,"date":"2025-09-06T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347376\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:05:12","slug":"jets-make-roster-moves-ahead-of-steelers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/347376\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Make Roster Moves Ahead Of Steelers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets have made two roster moves ahead of Sunday\u2019s regular-season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1964418656458179064\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per the team<\/a>, the Jets elevated WR Tyler Johnson while placing OL Alijah Vera-Tucker on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;ve elevated WR Tyler Johnson for Sunday&#8217;s game and placed OL Alijah Vera-Tucker on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/1964418656458179064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vera-Tucker suffered a torn triceps this week during practice, knocking him out for the season. It\u2019s the second time he\u2019s torn his triceps and the third season-ending injury he\u2019s suffered during his career. Set to be New York\u2019s starting right guard, it\u2019s a big blow to the Jets\u2019 offensive line and scheme that will rely heavily on running the ball.<\/p>\n<p>New York is expected to replace Vera-Tucker with center Joe Tippmann, who will kick over to right guard. Josh Myers will take over as the Jets\u2019 starting center. Despite the injury, the Jets didn\u2019t elevate any offensive linemen from their practice squad as additional depth. Backups along the offensive line include Xavier Newman, Max Mitchell, and ex-Steeler <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/09\/jets-week-1-friday-injury-report-chukwuma-okorafor-questionable-tackle-depth-running-thin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chukwuma Okorafor, who is questionable to play with a hand injury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson is a former fifth-round pick drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020. He\u2019s appeared in 49 NFL games with eight starts, recording 76 receptions for 828 yards and four touchdowns. Last year, he caught 26 passes 291 yards and one touchdown for the Los Angeles Rams. Johnson caught two passes for 27 yards in preseason action with the Jets. He\u2019ll serve as depth behind Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, and Josh Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersdepot.com\/2025\/09\/steelers-elevate-cb-james-pierre-ahead-of-jets-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elevated CB James Pierre<\/a> ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers and Jets kick off at 1 PM\/EST Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets have made two roster moves ahead of Sunday\u2019s regular-season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[2316,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,57,11144],"class_list":{"0":"post-347376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-alijah-vera-tucker","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","17":"tag-tyler-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115159625092234591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347376","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=347376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}