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Mason Taylor looks on from the field during an NFL football game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on November 13, 2025 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Getty Images<\/p>\nThe path seemed clear from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Jets selected tight end Mason Taylor out of LSU in the second round with the 42nd pick.<\/p>\n
He impressed early with his blocking technique coming off of a three-year career of 129 catches for 1,308 yards and six touchdowns as a Tiger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old was the instant favorite to start over Jeremy Ruckert, Stone Smartt, and Zach Kuntz. He was set to get a ton of reps among veteran stars in his rookie season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was the ideal scenario for the son of Hall of Famer and former Jets pass rusher Jason Taylor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mason Taylor looks on from the field during an NFL football game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on November 13, 2025 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Across the first five games, he got to work quickly. He tallied 20 receptions over 28 targets for 175 yards. Taylor averaged 5.6 targets per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, in the past five games, Taylor\u2019s involvement has dipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has 20 targets that landed 14 catches for 101 yards for an average of just four targets per game, including his four targets for four catches and 30 yards in a 27-14 loss to the Patriots last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When asked on Friday if he wanted to be involved more in the passing game, Taylor gave a humble response.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s all fun and games when you\u2019re scoring touchdowns and catching passes, but as long as we\u2019re winning games, that\u2019s the main focus for us as a team,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll let the coaches decide on how to use my abilities to help benefit this team and we\u2019ll just go from there. That\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor added he had not talked to any coaches about the dip in production.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a coach\u2019s decision,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some action is better than none at all. Yet, with a struggling offense that had its hand forced to make a quarterback switch after averaging a league-worst 139.9 yards passing per game, it\u2019s a wonder why Taylor \u2014 a player who matters for both now and for the future \u2014 isn\u2019t being used as often.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Friday, coach Aaron Glenn acknowledged this gap and his desire to involve Taylor more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of our dynamic players. So, he\u2019s always in the plan of making sure that we get him the ball,\u201d Glenn said. \u201cI mean, things happen sometimes where it doesn\u2019t get to him, but there\u2019s not a week that we go by that we don\u2019t plan on trying to get him the ball, and he\u2019s always shown what he can do as far as a receiving tight end and as a blocker. But being one of our threats, we have to make sure that we get him the ball, so you\u2019re absolutely right about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Mason Taylor reacts during the second half against the Cleveland Browns in the game at MetLife Stadium on November 09, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n
A change for Taylor may come Sunday with backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor under center in place of Justin Fields, who was benched Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fields failed to get the offense going and produce a functional passing game. His inefficiency may be a reason why the tight end hasn\u2019t had the chance to show his true potential often throughout the first 10 games of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Across his 48 targets this season, Mason Taylor has caught 34 passes for 276 yards, along with a touchdown that came in Week 8 during a Jets win over the Bengals, their first victory of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely think I\u2019ve gained a lot of confidence every single week more and more,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cJust learning from my mistakes, and I feel like I\u2019m getting more experience for my confidence. I just think every single week I\u2019m getting better, finding new things to get better at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The path seemed clear from the start.\u00a0 The Jets selected tight end Mason Taylor out of LSU in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27272,9,11,430,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-48354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-lsu-tigers","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354","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=48354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}