Two days, eight new players for the New York Jets.

Now, we present you with one key stat that summarizes each of them.

S Minkah Fitzpatrick: 39%

According to Pro Football Focus, Minkah Fitzpatrick recorded a forced incompletion rate of 39% in man coverage during the 2025 season. That was the second-best mark among all safeties.

A “forced incompletion” is any on-ball play by the defender that breaks up a pass, including not just all pass deflections and interceptions, but also any type of contact to the receiver that disrupts the pass without being charted as a pass deflection in the box score.

By looking at the percentage of targets in which a defender forces an incompletion, we get a strong feel for how disruptive they are in coverage, particularly when we isolate their man-coverage reps.

Fitzpatrick’s elite forced incompletion rate in man coverage signifies that he is still among the league’s premier matchup weapons in the secondary.

EDGE Joseph Ossai: 70.7

Joseph Ossai brings reliable run defense to a Jets team that lacked disciplined, sturdy players on the edge in 2025.

According to Pro Football Focus, Ossai earned a 70.7 run defense grade in 2025, placing him 15th among 64 qualified edge defenders.

At 6-foot-4 and 263 pounds with 33⅞-inch arms, Ossai offers the size and length to set a strong edge as a 3-4 outside linebacker. He couples his frame with excellent athleticism, unofficially recording a 4.63 forty time, 41.5-inch vertical jump, and a 131-inch broad jump, which gives him the range to chase down plays to the sideline.

EDGE Kingsley Enagbare: 24-25, 30-39

Kingsley Enagbare is one of the most consistent players in the NFL. That does not mean he is one of the best, but it does mean he is among the easiest to predict, which carries value for a Jets team craving floor-raisers on defense.

Enagbare has played four NFL seasons. In all four, he recorded somewhere from 24 to 25 total pressures and 31 to 39 total tackles.

  • 2022 (17 games): 25 total pressures, 31 total tackles
  • 2023 (17 games): 24 total pressures, 37 total tackles
  • 2024 (17 games): 25 total pressures, 39 total tackles
  • 2025 (17 games): 24 total pressures, 39 total tackles

As both a pass rusher and run defender, the Jets can confidently expect Enagbare to provide a level of play that makes him a worthy fourth or fifth man in the edge rotation. Perhaps his low ceiling makes his $10 million salary a slight overpay, but it’s only a one-year deal.

What the Jets are paying for is the certainty that he will be a better DE4 or DE5 than someone like Micheal Clemons or Braiden McGregor.

DT David Onyemata: 4.8%

Jets fans do not have to be reminded of how poorly the team tackled in 2025.

David Onyemata can help with that. Across 17 starts in 2025, he was credited with just three missed tackles, per PFF.

His 4.8% missed tackle rate ranked 12th-lowest among 94 qualified defensive tackles (min. 400 defensive snaps), including the fourth-lowest among those who had at least 60 total tackles. Onyemata joins good company in that group, trailing only B.J. Hill, Derrick Brown, and Cameron Heyward.

At 33 years old with excellent tackling technique for the defensive tackle position, Onyemata can be a valuable presence for a Jets team that will be counting on plenty of young defensive linemen.

LB Demario Davis: 39

An ageless wonder, Demario Davis is still one of the NFL’s premier linebackers as he enters his age-37 season.

That is especially true when it comes to his downhill playmaking against the run. Davis racked up 39 run stops in 2025, placing him fourth among linebackers.

CB Nahshon Wright: 10

I know you’re tired of hearing it… but the Jets had zero interceptions last season. It’s a stat so unfathomably bad that it deserves to be repeated over and over.

Perpetuating the zero-interception number is the fact that New York couldn’t recover fumbles, either. The Jets forced just nine fumbles and recovered four of them, tied for the second-fewest.

New York’s defensive additions thus far have sustained a consistent goal of turning around the Jets’ pitiful takeaway number. No player encapsulates that mission more than Nahshon Wright.

The Pro Bowl corner finished the 2025 season with a combined total of 10 interceptions (5), fumble recoveries (3), and forced fumbles (2). That’s enough to eclipse the entire Jets defense’s combined total of interceptions and forced fumbles.

Wright is prone to coverage mistakes and penalties, explaining why he received a modest one-year deal, but his elite takeaway upside is well worth a contract worth no more than $5.5 million.

S Dane Belton: 184.0

Carrying on the theme established by Wright is Dane Belton, another defensive back with a knack for taking the ball away.

Belton has started only 22 of his 66 career games, playing 1,850 defensive snaps in four seasons. Despite the limited playing time, he’s racked up six interceptions on just 1,104 coverage snaps, an average of one interception every 184.0 coverage snaps.

That’s really darn good. For perspective, Minkah Fitzpatrick’s career average is 209.3 (21 interceptions on 4,396 coverage snaps).

This gives Belton an exciting ceiling. Let’s say he starts all 17 games for the Jets in 2026 as an every-down player. He would likely play somewhere around 600 coverage snaps. At his career rate of one interception every 184.0 coverage snaps, he would snag 3.3 interceptions at that snap count.

Belton also has four forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in his career. Some of those were on special teams, but it further displays his penchant for swiping the football.

QB Geno Smith: 28-to-9

It was only one year ago when Geno Smith would have been viewed as one of the premier deep passers in the NFL.

Across his three-year run as the Seahawks’ starting quarterback (2022-24), Smith threw a league-high 28 touchdown passes on deep passes (20+ air yards), compared to just 9 interceptions.

As recently as 2024, Smith ranked seventh out of 38 qualified quarterbacks with an adjusted completion percentage (drops count as catches) of 49.2% on deep passes. He also ranked fifth with 879 passing yards on deep passes.

It all fell apart in 2025, as Smith ranked 32nd out of 36 qualifiers with a 36.2% adjusted completion percentage on deep passes. He tossed three touchdowns and five interceptions while ranking just 21st with 510 passing yards.

If Frank Reich wants to bring back the Seahawks version of Smith in New York, helping Smith rediscover his deep-ball prowess will be essential.