In so many ways, the coaches and the players in camp have come to love Woods. The Jets claimed him off waivers late in training camp last year and he re-signed with the team this past March. After a strong rookie season with the Colts in 2022 (15 games, 25 catches for 312 yards and 3 TDs), Woods missed the entire 2023 and ’24 seasons with hamstring and toe injuries.<\/p>\n
“There’s a number of things that you can envision him doing for us,” HC Aaron Glenn said. “You can split him out and let him go one-on-one with a safety, a linebacker, and I’m expecting him to win that matchup.”<\/p>\n
In camp, with Sadiq and Taylor each dealing with short-term injuries, Woods has gotten a chance to display his talents and work with QB Geno Smith. Woods loves the TE group and the different skills they possess.<\/p>\n
“I’d say we’re very dynamic,” Woods said. “Everybody can do everything, so it gives us the opportunity to put ourselves in a position to be successful. Whatever coach wants us to do, we all can do it at a high level. So it just makes it, I guess, kind of easier. You don’t have to just limit guys or anything. You can just put whoever out there, and they’re gonna be able to get the job done.”<\/p>\n
And Smith, who is enjoying his varied options on offense — on the O-line, at tight end, wide receiver and running back — has taken notice.<\/p>\n
“I like the way Jelani has been out there making plays,” Smith said recently. “He’s making plays.”<\/p>\n
In that crowded tight ends room, there is certainly nothing guaranteed to any player. That, however, has only served to motivate Woods, whose 4 games last year for the Green & White were his first since 2022.<\/p>\n
“Oh, it’s exciting,” he said. “I still take it a day at a time, moment by moment, play by play. Classroom by classroom. Like I don’t really look too far ahead. Monday practice is Monday practice, Tuesday practice is Tuesday practice, and I just keep it at that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In so many ways, the coaches and the players in camp have come to love Woods. The Jets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116901,53650,85,9,11,10,12,63749,116580],"class_list":["post-318011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-best-of-ny-jets","tag-jelani-woods","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-training-camp","tag-training-camp-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318011","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=318011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}