{"id":98898,"date":"2026-01-13T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98898\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:19:13","slug":"highest-graded-jets-by-pro-football-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98898\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest Graded Jets by Pro Football Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its first season under coordinator Chris Banjo, the Jets special teams were rated as the fourth-best unit in the NFL (90.6) by Pro Football Focus, headlined by WR Isaiah Williams<\/a> (90.9) and RB Kene Nwangwu<\/a> (90.6) as PFF’s No. 1 and No. 2 highest returner grades (min. 20% snaps).<\/p>\n

The duo combined for 3 return touchdowns — a kickoff and 2 punts — and the Jets led the NFL in total return yards (2,666) as a team.<\/p>\n

In addition, first-year starting punter Austin McNamara<\/a> (90.3) was the second-highest graded punter by PFF. McNamara, the special teams player of the month for November, landed 32 punts inside the 20-yard-line, the second most in the NFL.<\/p>\n

McNamara was named to PFF’s second team All-Pro while Nwangwu and Williams were named to the first team.<\/p>\n

Here are other Jets players who received high grades from PFF.<\/p>\n

No Rookie Wall for Armand Membou
Rookie RT Armand Membou<\/a>, the No. 7 overall selection in last April’s NFL Draft, started every game for the Green & White during his rookie season and was the second-highest rated rookie offensive lineman (min. 50% of snaps) by PFF (73.3).<\/p>\n

Membou, out of Missouri, posted his best single-week grade in Week 1 (89.0) against the Steelers. He matched up with All-Pro edge defender T.J. Watt during the season-opener and did not surrender a single sack or pressure, according to PFF.<\/p>\n

Membou finished the regular season as one of just 10 tackles leaguewide to play 1,000-plus snaps and earn a 70.0-plus PFF overall grade. He was one of only two rookies to do so.<\/p>\n

“The 21-year-old is poised to pair with Olu Fashanu to propel the Jets’ line into the next era with a new quarterback in 2026 and beyond,” PFF’s Ben Cooper wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its first season under coordinator Chris Banjo, the Jets special teams were rated as the fourth-best unit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-98898","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98898","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=98898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}