{"id":376973,"date":"2026-10-19T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376973\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:16:08","slug":"jets-rookie-wr-omar-cooper-jr-s-historic-game-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376973\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Rookie WR Omar Cooper Jr.&#8217;s Historic Game by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for several puzzle pieces to fall into place for <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/omar-cooper-jr\/\" title=\"Omar Cooper Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Cooper Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would definitely say it was the Titans game,&#8221; the Jets&#8217; first-round rookie WR said of the season opener, in which he had just 1\u00a0reception \u2500 his artful 30-yard catch-and-run that set up the offense&#8217;s first touchdown of the season. &#8220;Coming up to this level, you&#8217;ve got to get that confidence, and I feel like that catch allowed me to get that confidence and say, &#8216;OK, you&#8217;re here and you&#8217;re supposed to be here.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Then after 4 games on Injured Reserve to get his ankle right after only 5 offensive snaps at Tennessee, Cooper showed he&#8217;s supposed to be here even more at New England on Sunday. In fact, the young man from Indiana with a 4.42-second 40 time sped onto two lists of Jets rookie receiving achievement.<\/p>\n<p>With his 103 receiving yards on 6 catches, Cooper joined former Jets WR Derrick Gaffney and fellow wideout <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/garrett-wilson\/\" title=\"Garrett Wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Wilson<\/a> as the only pass-catchers at any position in franchise history to get their first 100-yard outings in their second games as Jets rookies:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn&#8217;t take long for several puzzle pieces to fall into place for Omar Cooper Jr. &#8220;I would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,9,11,10,12,82454],"class_list":["post-376973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-omar-cooper-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376973","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=376973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}