The Jets released their first unofficial training camp depth chart on Sunday. Compiled by the team’s communications staff, the offensive and defensive units are represented with 12 players – 21 (2 RB, 1 TE, 2 WR) and 11 (1 RB, 1 TE, 3 WR) personnel packages are accounted for offensively in addition to base 4-3 and nickel packages (5 DBs) for the defense.

Justin’s Job
When the Jets host the Steelers to open regular season play, Justin Fields is slated to become the team’s fifth different starting QB to start Week 1 over seven seasons. After sustaining a dislocated toe two practices into camp, Fields just completed a full week of team reps over five practices and was especially sharp in situational work on Friday. He’s listed as QB1 and is followed by Tyrod Taylor, Adrian Martinez and rookie Brady Cook respectively.

“I think Justin’s done a really nice job a week into camp,” OC Tanner Engstrand said. “He’s absorbing and digesting all the information as we get through it a second time. We had it in OTAs and now we have it a second time. He’s doing a really nice job mentally and you’re seeing some of the product on the field. We’re making some plays, but then we’re not making some plays. That’s going to happen in training camp as we’re going through the installation, but he’s had a nice camp so far.”

Center Competition
HC Aaron Glenn is stressing competition at every turn and there is an interesting battle brewing at center. Joe Tippmann (6-6, 313), a second-round pick out of Wisconsin in 2023, started 31 games in 33 appearances in 2023-24. He is listed with the first team on the depth chart.

“I think just keep competing,” Tippmann said. “We brought Josh [Myers] in, so now I have that competition each and every day. It’s something that’s only going to make me better – pressure makes diamonds. So, just being able to keep that in my mind, know that it’s an open competition and that I’m going to have to keep battling every day for that position.”

Josh Myers (6-5, 310), a college teammate of Fields and TE Jeremy Ruckert at Ohio State, signed with the Jets in free agency after starting each of the 56 regular-season games he appeared in with the Packers from 2021-24.

“I focus solely on what I can control, so I try not to worry about any of that stuff and just show up every day as prepared as I can – as physically ready, as mentally ready, and just try to bring my best every single day, kind of take it one day at a time,” Myers said. “And then however it unfolds is how it unfolds.”