Overview
- The New York Jets will open the regular season Sunday in Nashville with Geno Smith installed as the starting quarterback in his return to the franchise.
- Smith’s ball security is the primary on-field worry after he led the NFL with 17 interceptions in 2025, and protecting the football is widely seen as the key to New York’s improvement this year.
- Wide receiver Garrett Wilson has publicly called making the playoffs “very realistic” and framed a postseason berth as this year’s measure of success for the team.
- Robert Saleh, who coached the Jets from 2021–2024 and now leads the Titans, predicted New York could finish with a top-half offense, heightening interest in the emotional reunion.
- Aaron Glenn will call the Jets’ defense while Frank Reich unveils the offense, early betting lines list Tennessee as a slight favorite, and the Week 1 result is being treated as an early gauge of the offseason overhaul and Glenn’s progress.