{"id":202699,"date":"2025-10-10T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202699\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:04:08","slug":"new-york-jets-edge-rusher-jermaine-johnson-ii-is-ready-to-go-against-denver-broncos-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202699\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Jets edge rusher Jermaine Johnson II is &#8216;ready to go&#8217; against Denver Broncos in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WATFORD, England (AP) \u2014 The New York Jets\u2019 struggling defense will get a boost with the return of edge rusher Jermaine Johnson II, who has missed the last three games with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jets coach Aaron Glenn pronounced Johnson \u201cready to go\u201d against the Denver Broncos in Sunday\u2019s game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as New York (0-5) seeks its first victory this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe does bring the edge to him. He\u2019s another guy that can get after the quarterback, so anytime we can bring that type of attitude, anytime we can bring that level of player on our team back from injury, it\u2019s always good,\u201d Glenn said Friday before practice at the team\u2019s hotel north of London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The defense needs all the help it can get. The Jets have no takeaways through Week 5 and only three sacks in the last four games. Defensive tackle Quinnen Williams described his side of the ball as \u201c probably the worst defense in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson was injured in the second quarter of New York\u2019s 30-10 loss to Buffalo in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Pro Bowl selection after the 2023 season when he recorded 7.5 sacks, Johnson missed most of last season after tearing his right Achilles tendon in Week 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NFL<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ken Maguire, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATFORD, England (AP) \u2014 The New York Jets\u2019 struggling defense will get a boost with the return of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-202699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}