Overview
- Burress told Lil Wayne on The Joint Venture Show in July 2026 that his single 2011 season with the New York Jets gave him the same ‘loser’ feeling he had on his first day of a roughly 20-month prison term.
- The prison term followed a 2008 self-inflicted nightclub shooting and a conviction for criminal possession of a weapon that kept him out of the NFL until his 2011 reinstatement.
- In 2011 Burress appeared in 16 games with 13 starts for the Jets, recording 45 catches for about 612 yards and eight touchdowns while the team finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs.
- Burress says he regrets choosing the Jets over the Pittsburgh Steelers, who went 12-4 and reached the postseason that same year, and his late return to Pittsburgh in 2012 yielded minimal production before a torn rotator cuff ended his 2013 season.
- Multiple outlets have corroborated the July interview and treated the comments as a candid, personal assessment rather than new legal news, and there has been no reported response from the Jets.