{"id":257548,"date":"2026-06-06T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:14:15","slug":"jets-dt-harrison-phillips-among-nfls-most-underappreciated-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257548\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets DT Harrison Phillips Among NFL\u2019s Most Underappreciated Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early May, the Jets&#8217; veteran defensive tackle <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/harrison-phillips\/\" title=\"Harrison Phillips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harrison Phillips<\/a> was recognized by the United Way of New York with its Hometown Hero award for his off-the-field commitment to inclusive youth sports and mentorship though his charity, Harrison&#8217;s Playmakers. On the field, the eight-year NFL veteran who is preparing for his second season with the Green &amp; White has been tabbed as one of the most underappreciated players in the AFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still don&#8217;t understand why the Vikings traded this guy to the Jets last August,&#8221; wrote Gennaro Filice, an editor at large for <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"http:\/\/nfl.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 30, a native of Omaha, NE, who graduated from Stanford with a double major in Sociology and Science, Technology and Society, and a minor in Education in December 2017, started and played in all 17 games in the middle of the defensive line in his first season with the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phillips anchored Minnesota&#8217;s defensive front during Brian Flores&#8217; first two years with the franchise, and the Vikes ranked eighth and second in run defense,&#8221; Filice wrote. &#8220;This past season, after parting ways with Phillips, they plummeted to 21st. In related news, Minnesota just spent two of its first three picks on defensive tackles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In early May, the Jets&#8217; veteran defensive tackle Harrison Phillips was recognized by the United Way of New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23950,85,9,24,55,54,12,56],"class_list":["post-257548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-harrison-phillips","tag-latest-headlines","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\/257548","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=257548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}