{"id":676425,"date":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676425\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","slug":"garrett-wilson-i-feel-great-but-still-some-work-to-do-to-be-back-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676425\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Wilson: I feel great, but still some work to do to be back to myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jets took three players in the first round of this year\u2019s draft, which led to hope that David Bailey, Kenyon Sadiq and Omar Cooper can spark a long-awaited return to the playoffs for the AFC East team. <\/p>\n

It led others to recall similar feelings during the 2022 draft when the Jets took Sauce Gardner, Garrett Wilson and Jermaine Johnson in the first round. Gardner and Wilson were both named rookie of the year on their respective sides of the ball, but the Jets never got over the hump and Wilson is the only one left on the team\u2019s roster. <\/p>\n

Wilson said last week that the changes don\u2019t represent \u201cfailure,\u201d but futility has been part of the equation for the Jets far too often and Wilson\u2019s knee injury in 2025 didn\u2019t help matters. He\u2019s been working out without issue this offseason and said that he\u2019s feeling close to being back at the level he wants to play at this fall. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo now it\u2019s just getting back comfortable<\/a> with playing, getting used to having a guy on me running routes,\u201d Wilson said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cStuff you can\u2019t really mimic until you\u2019re doing the real thing. I feel great, but as far as getting back to myself, I\u2019ve got some work to do. I\u2019m excited, though, I\u2019m excited. It\u2019s going to be a journey and, um . . . yeah, man, I\u2019m not that far off. . . . I don\u2019t want to scare nobody. I\u2019m good. But I\u2019ve got a different standard that I just want to get back to, and that\u2019s the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson will be working with another new quarterback in Geno Smith, who he said \u201cthrows a real friendly ball\u201d that the Jets hope will find its way into Wilson\u2019s hands early and often in their latest bid to snap the NFL\u2019s longest postseason drought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets took three players in the first round of this year\u2019s draft, which led to hope that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-676425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}