It's the end of an era for the once-defensively stacked Jets, who traded away stars Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams on Tuesday in pursuit of a full-blown franchise rebuild this offseason.
For the 1-7 Jets, their bottomed-out 2025 campaign has nowhere to go but up, but after Tuesday's blockbuster deals they may take a little longer to get where they want to be. For the last several years, the Jets have boasted one of the league's best defenses that nonetheless couldn't overcome the shortcomings of their very bad offense. Now armed with an arsenal of picks to draft their next franchise quarterback, the Jets can look ahead to an arguably brighter future—they had just better hope they don't miss on their QB.
