{"id":21895,"date":"2025-10-29T22:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21895\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:24:15","slug":"jets-acquire-john-metchie-from-eagles-in-michael-carter-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21895\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets acquire John Metchie from Eagles in Michael Carter trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets and Eagles swapped fringe roster players and draft picks on Wednesday afternoon, The Post\u2019s Brian Costello confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets sent cornerback Michael Carter II and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Eagles for wide receiver John Metchie III and a 2027 sixth-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Metchie, a former second-round pick of the Texans, had four catches for 18 yards in seven games this season for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37522903\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250914_hlf_sm8_186.jpg\" alt=\"Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver John Metchie III (18) makes a reception against the Kansas City Chiefs during the first quarter of the game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.\" class=\"wp-image-37522903\"  \/>John Metchie traded to the Jets Denny Medley-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>He joins a banged-up receivers room that includes top target Garrett Wilson and Josh Reynolds dealing with injuries as they enter their Week 9 bye.<\/p>\n<p>Metchie had 40 catches and one touchdown in his two seasons in Houston before being traded to the Eagles this offseason.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37523200\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jets-cornerback-michael-carter-ii-111671313.jpg\" alt=\"Jets cornerback Michael Carter II (30) practices with a football in Florham Park, NJ.\" class=\"wp-image-37523200\"  \/>Jets cornerback Michael Carter II (30) practices in Florham Park. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>He could see action beginning in Week 10 against the Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, a fifth-round pick of the Jets in 2021, had returned to action last week after missing three games with a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>He had two years remaining on a three-year extension he signed in 2024, but removed a $5 million injury guarantee for 2026 as part of the move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets and Eagles swapped fringe roster players and draft picks on Wednesday afternoon, The Post\u2019s Brian Costello&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14628,9,11,430,10,22,4280,2685,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-21895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-michael-carter-ii","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-trade-deadline","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895","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=21895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}