{"id":73401,"date":"2025-12-17T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73401\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:50:09","slug":"jets-extend-jeremy-ruckert-on-10-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/73401\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets extend Jeremy Ruckert on $10 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets locked up another pending free agent on Wednesday, agreeing to a two-year deal with tight end Jeremy Ruckert, a source confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets are signing Ruckert to a two-year, $10 million deal. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second extension that general manager Darren Mougey has handed out in recent weeks. The team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/12\/sports\/jets-extend-center-josh-myers-to-solidify-offensive-line\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed center Josh Myers<\/a> to a two-year extension last week .<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37950530\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jets-tight-end-jeremy-ruckert-117111437.jpg\" alt=\"Jets tight end Jeremy Ruckert (89) practices in Florham Park, NJ. \" class=\"wp-image-37950530\"  \/>Jets tight end Jeremy Ruckert (89) practices in Florham Park, NJ.  Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Ruckert, a 2022 third-round pick, was scheduled to be a free agent in March. <\/p>\n<p>He has been the team\u2019s second tight end this season behind rookie Mason Taylor. <\/p>\n<p>He has 20 catches for 163 yards and one touchdown this season. Ruckert is also the team\u2019s best blocking tight end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets locked up another pending free agent on Wednesday, agreeing to a two-year deal with tight end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24890,9,11,430,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-73401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-jeremy-ruckert","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\/73401","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=73401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}