{"id":74263,"date":"2025-12-18T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:04:23","slug":"jets-sign-te-jeremy-ruckert-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74263\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Sign TE Jeremy Ruckert to Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with fourth-year tight end <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/jeremy-ruckert\/\" title=\"Jeremy Ruckert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Ruckert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ruckert, the Long Island native who was the Jets&#8217; third-round selection (101st overall) of the 2022 NFL Draft out of Ohio State, has seen his playtime and production increase steadily as a reliable blocking and receiving TE in each of his four seasons in green and white.<\/p>\n<p>He has set career highs in several categories this season. He&#8217;s made 12 starts and played in all 14 games, catching 20 passes for 163 yards. He&#8217;s at 383 offensive snaps, averaging more than 27 snaps a game, and with 11 more offensive snaps over the final three games, he will set a career high in that metric as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ruckert got his first NFL touchdown reception on a 5-yard toss from Tyrod Taylor late in the Week 2 game against Buffalo. He has set career highs with four receptions against Dallas and at New England and had a career-long 24-yard catch in the comeback win at Cincinnati. Twenty of his 55 career receptions have converted first downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with fourth-year tight end Jeremy Ruckert. Ruckert, the Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24890,85,9,24,55,54,12,56,12130,1526],"class_list":{"0":"post-74263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jeremy-ruckert","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-randy-lange","17":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74263","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=74263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}