Now that the offseason is here, we\u2019ve been updating you on former Jets players and how they fared elsewhere in 2025. Having looked at offensive and defensive players over the past few weeks, we\u2019ll be concluding with a look at special teamers today.<\/p>\n
As ever, this list is intended to be exhaustive, but if we missed anyone, let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n
Santos missed five field goals in 2025 but hit a game winner against the Vikings. He made all 39 of his extra point attempts including one that sent a game to overtime but his longest field goal was only 54 yards.<\/p>\n
McLaughlin missed six field goals, but he finished strong and only missed one extra point all year. He had game-winners against the Jets and Seahawks and a successful 65-yarder.<\/p>\n
Myers missed seven field goals in 2025 but was perfect on 48 extra points. He then made all 19 of his kicks in the postseason. He had game-winners against the Cardinals and Colts but missed a 61-yard game-winner in a loss to the Rams.<\/p>\n
Shrader won the Colts job and made a game-winner over the Broncos (after his long miss had been negated by a leverage penalty). He missed his first ever kick the following week and then got injured in week five and spent the rest of the season on injured reserve.<\/p>\n
Riley Patterson, Dolphins<\/p>\n
Patterson ended up holding down the Miami job all season as they opted to leave Jason Sanders on injured reserve. He had one game-winner for them, against Washington. In all, he made 27 of 29 field goals and 34 of 35 extra points.<\/p>\n
While he missed some time due to injuries, it was a successful season for Santos, who led the NFL in field goal percentage after making 28 of 29 attempts. Ex-Jets actually comprised four of the top five kickers in terms of field goal percentage in 2025, including Nick Folk who was obviously also a current Jet. He had game-winners over the Cardinals and Rams but did miss five extra points, including one in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Mevis was a late season addition who did a solid job as he missed just one of 13 field goals in the regular season, while making all 39 of his extra points. He was also perfect on 15 postseason kicks. Mevis\u2019 only miss was costly, though, as it was a 48-yarder with just over two minutes to go in a game the Rams ultimately lost by one in overtime to Seattle.<\/p>\n
Joseph did not play in 2025 but spent time on the Raiders\u2019 practice squad. He was not retained.<\/p>\n
Mann saw his gross numbers fall off a bit down the stretch but still ended up with a gross average of 49.9 yards per punt, which was good for 6th best in the NFL. His net dropped to 43.1 though, as his touchback percentage has been up in the past two years.<\/p>\n
Morstead was one of the least effective punters in the NFL statistically. His 43.6 yards per punt gross average was his lowest since he left the Saints in 2020 and his net of 36.7 was his lowest since his rookie season.<\/p>\n
The undrafted rookie Kroeger was one of four NFL punters to have two punts blocked as he was slightly better than Morstead with a 44.8 yards per punt gross average and a 37.3 net.<\/p>\n
Berrios missed some time due to injury, lost the punt return role to Jaylin Noel and ultimately only returned three kickoffs and three punts all season.<\/p>\n
Raymond had a 65-yard punt return for a touchdown but ended up with an average of just 7.5 yards per return. He averaged just under 27 yards on six kickoffs.<\/p>\n
Dortch didn\u2019t have a return of over 40 yards all year but was extremely consistent with a kickoff return average of over 26 yards per return and a career-high punt return average of 11.6.<\/p>\n
Brandon Codrington, Bills<\/p>\n
Codrington was let go by the Bills after losing his job and is now on a futures deal with the Texans. He averaged less than six yards per punt return with one fumble. Despite being slightly better on kickoffs with a 26.8 yards per return average, Ty Johnson ended up with that role.<\/p>\n
Corley saw extensive work on kickoff returns and averaged 23.4 yards per return with a long of 37.<\/p>\n
Mostert was leading the league for kickoff return average, but ended up in fourth place with a 29.3 yards per return average. He had two returns of over 50 yards in one game against the Jaguars.<\/p>\n
Hardman only saw brief action on returns with three total runbacks but did break one kickoff return for 61 yards.<\/p>\n
Johnson took over from Codrington but his performance was unremarkable as he averaged less than 22 yards per return on 11 runbacks with a long of 31.<\/p>\n
After being cut by the Jets, Gipson didn\u2019t last long with Philadelphia as he fumbled on two of his 13 returns. He averaged 11 yards on punts and 25 on kickoffs. Gipson ended up with the Giants but did not return kicks with them.<\/p>\n
Other Special Teams Contributors<\/p>\n
The top ex-Jets special teams contributor in terms of kick coverage was definitely Chargers linebacker Del\u2019Shawn Phillips, who led the league with 24 special teams tackles. This was twice as many as any other ex-Jet.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s Chazz Surratt and Zaire Barnes of the Giants had 11 each, which Barnes\u2019 teammate Neville Hewitt racked up 12. Washington\u2019s Nick Bellore and Carolina\u2019s Claud Cherelus were also productive.<\/p>\n
Non-linebackers who have had some production include Chiefs wide receiver Jason Brownlee and Steelers safety Chuck Clark, with three and five tackles respectively.<\/p>\n
Zach Triner was the only ex-Jets long snapper to see action as he played in one game with the Commanders having also been on Atlanta\u2019s practice squad.<\/p>\n
Finally, Browns defensive tackle Shelby Harris and Commanders defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw each blocked a field goal. However, the biggest blocked field goal of the season by an ex-Jets was the one by Leonard Taylor III that basically sent New England to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the offseason is here, we\u2019ve been updating you on former Jets players and how they fared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,1917,255,84552,2321,2097,6],"class_list":["post-766463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-jets","tag-football","tag-jets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-jets-analysis","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkjets","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116107869314698906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766463","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=766463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}