It has only been a little more than a year that Darren Mougey has been general manager of the Jets. Yet over that limited span he has proven himself to be a keen evaluator of talent, an adept trader, aggressive in free agency while also crafting deals that make financial sense, at least in the short term.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the League Year earlier this month, Mougey, who will turn 41 years old in less than 2 weeks, has gone about rebuilding the Jets’ roster ahead of the 2026 NFL season. And second-year HC Aaron Glenn made several personnel changes on his staff prior to the NFL’s league year.<\/p>\n
“First of all, there’s a lot of new coaches on the staff, [OC] Frank Reich, obviously, coming in,” NFL.com<\/a> analyst Brian Baldinger told senior reporter Eric Allen on a recent edition of The Official Jets Podcast<\/a>. “Brian Duker coming in as defensive coordinator, a lot of new coaches.”<\/p>\n In total, Glenn will be working with more than a dozen new coaches.<\/p>\n With Glenn planning to call the plays on defense, much as he did as the DC with the Detroit Lions, the defense took priority among Mougey’s early moves.<\/p>\n “They rebuilt this roster,” Baldinger said. “It needed to be rebuilt. I think that they got some good value with some real veteran players. Guys have been around a long time, obviously, [LB] Demario Davis<\/a> back to the Jets for the third time, but they got a lot of guys, not just that are veterans, but guys who have been largely healthy and in leadership roles wherever they’ve been.”<\/p>\n In addition to Davis, a 17-year veteran, that group includes New Jersey native Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/a>, a safety acquired in a trade with AFC East rival Miami. Mougey then sent edge Jermaine Johnson to Tennessee for the young and promising DT T’Vondre Sweat<\/a>. In rapid-fire fashion in the first wave of free agency, the Jets brought aboard edge Joseph Ossai<\/a>, edge Kingsley Enagbare<\/a> and DT David Onyemata<\/a> (the latter two on team-friendly one-year deals).<\/p>\n In addition to Fitzpatrick, the defensive backfield was fortified with the signing in free agency of CB Nahshon Wright<\/a> and S Dane Belton<\/a> (each also on one-year deals).<\/p>\n And all those moves have come before the NFL Draft in about a month when the Jets have nine total picks, four among the top 44 selections (two each in the first two rounds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has only been a little more than a year that Darren Mougey has been general manager of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-849269","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-jets","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116335289503664581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849269","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=849269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}