{"id":168133,"date":"2026-03-19T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:32:07","slug":"cb-nahshon-wright-excited-to-be-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168133\/","title":{"rendered":"CB Nahshon Wright Excited to be in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The retooling of the Jets&#8217; defense, and specifically the secondary, brought three new defensive backs to the team in the first wave of free agency and via a trade &#8212; cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/nahshon-wright\/\" title=\"Nahshon Wright\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nahshon Wright<\/a>, and safeties <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/minkah-fitzpatrick\/\" title=\"Minkah Fitzpatrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/a> (in a deal with Miami) and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/dane-belton\/\" title=\"Dane Belton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Belton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, 27, was stellar last year in his &#8220;prove it&#8221; season with the Bears. He signed a one-year contract with Chicago after being traded and spending most of the 2024 season on Minnesota&#8217;s practice squad. He was a third-round selection of the Cowboys in the 2021 NFL Draft out of Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p>In the Windy City, Wright (6-4, 199) appeared in all 17 regular-season games (16 starts), had 11 PDs, 5 INTs (tied for the league lead among CBs), 2 FFs and 3 FR. Those 8 total takeaways were the most in the NFL last season. Wright was the NFC Defensive Player of Month for November after coming up with 5 takeaways in 5 games and earned a trip to the Pro Bowl for the first time in his five-year NFL career. If those numbers weren&#8217;t enough, Wright also had 80 total tackles (56 solo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The retooling of the Jets&#8217; defense, and specifically the secondary, brought three new defensive backs to the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63836,85,66048,9,24,55,54,12,56],"class_list":["post-168133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nahshon-wright","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}