The Jets waived 19 players and placed three players on reserve lists to reduce their initial active roster under first-year head coach Aaron Glenn to Tuesday’s required 53-player limit.<\/p>\n
The player going to Injured Reserve is veteran DT Byron Cowart<\/a>, who sustained an injury early in training camp. WR\/ST Irvin Charles<\/a> has been placed on Reserve\/Physically Unable to Perform. Rookie free agent LB Ja\u2019Markis Weston<\/a> was placed on IR: Designated for Return.<\/p>\n DB Jarius Monroe, among the waived players, was waived with an injury settlement. Additionally, CB Ryan Cooper was waived from IR with an injury settlement.<\/p>\n Among the players who made the initial 53-player active roster are all seven members of the Jets’ 2025 NFL Draft Class. The youthful roster has 31 players with four or fewer years of NFL experience, 58% of the roster, and 17 players with two or fewer years of experience, 32%. Only four players on the roster are 30-plus years old: QB Tyrod Taylor, WR Josh Reynolds, K Nick Folk and LS Thomas Hennessy.<\/p>\n The 53-man roster on offense comprises 2 quarterbacks, 5 running backs, 6 wide receivers, 3 tight ends and 10 offensive linemen. Defensively, the breakdown is 10 defensive linemen, 5 linebackers and 9 defensive backs. The roster also includes 3 specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets waived 19 players and placed three players on reserve lists to reduce their initial active roster…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,72717,1370,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,1650,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-178540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-eric-allen","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-transactions","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115098267435673681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}