{"id":327156,"date":"2026-08-22T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327156\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:30:08","slug":"jets-steelers-game-recap-preseason-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327156\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets-Steelers Game Recap | Preseason Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/geno-smith\/\" title=\"Geno Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geno Smith<\/a>\u00a0had his first preseason action of the summer and the Jets&#8217; first team defense played into the second quarter during their preseason 17-0 victory in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>It was Smith&#8217;s first appearance as a Jet in 9 years, 302 days. While he only played one series, Smith was perfect (7-of-7 passing, 65 yards), leading the Jets to an opening drive touchdown. With two defenders in his face, Smith rolled left and found TE <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/jelani-woods\/\" title=\"Jelani Woods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jelani Woods<\/a> who ran into the end zone for the 13-yard score.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets added to the lead in the fourth quarter when <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/jason-sanders\/\" title=\"Jason Sanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Sanders<\/a> converted on a 38-yard field-goal attempt and WR <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/quincy-skinner-jr\/\" title=\"Quincy Skinner Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quincy Skinner Jr.<\/a>\u00a0had a late TD catch.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the second quarter the Steelers were driving into the red zone but S Andre Cisco intercepted QB Will Howard&#8217;s look to Roman Wilson at the Jets&#8217; 8-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets forced Pittsburgh to punt on the two drives prior with a three-and-out and rookie David Bailey&#8217;s sack on Howard for an 11-yard loss on third down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Smith\u00a0had his first preseason action of the summer and the Jets&#8217; first team defense played into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116901,12212,85,9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-327156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-best-of-ny-jets","tag-game-recap","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327156","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=327156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}