Founded 1960 · East Rutherford, New Jersey · metro pop. ~19.2M
MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ — opened 2010 · 82,500 seats. 1× champion · last 1968.
East Rutherford, New Jersey · founded 1960 · NFL since 1970
Ranked by team-only production — stats accumulated only while with the New York Jets (1999–present, the per-category box-stat era).
| # | Player | Pos | Seasons | Team stats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Maynard | WR | 13 (1960–1972) | 11,732 rec yds · 88 TD |
| 2 | Curtis Martin | RB | 8 (1998–2005) | 10,243 rush yds · 58 TD · 2,443 rec yds · 5 TD |
| 3 | Freeman McNeil | RB | 12 (1981–1992) | 8,074 rush yds · 38 TD · 2,961 rec yds · 12 TD |
| 4 | Ken O'Brien | QB | 9 (1984–1992) |
All-time franchise leaders by category — modern era (1999–present, the per-category box-stat era).
The four greatest players in franchise history by legacy score — all-era, honors-driven, weighted by career share.
Win% by decade since first NFL season. All-time: 43% across 66 seasons.
All-time regular-season dominance (min 10 games).
Ranked by rivalry intensity (volume × competitiveness × recency).
HOF-caliber players whose injury history cut their peak short — on this franchise's roster.
Score-weighted distribution of 25 best players in franchise history, by position group (KV-H basis, 1999+).
Most elite player: Curtis Martin (RB) — top 1% all-time at their position.
Every season since 1960: record, finish, head coach + how it ended. Per-category team stats (passing/rushing/receiving/defense) are filled for 1999+.
| Year | W-L-T | Finish | PF | PA | Pass | Rush | Rec | Sk | INT | Coach | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-14 | 4th | 300 | 503 | 2,784 | 2,096 | 2,784 | 26 | 0 | Aaron Glenn | Made Playoffs |
| 2024 | 5-12 | 3rd | 338 | 404 | 4,016 | 1,561 |
| 24,386 pass yds · 124 TD · 377 rush yds · 0 TD |
| 5 | Wayne Chrebet | WR | 11 (1995–2005) | 7,356 rec yds · 41 TD |
| 6 | Al Toon | WR | 8 (1985–1992) | 6,605 rec yds · 31 TD |
| 7 | Laveranues Coles | WR | 7 (2000–2008) | 5,919 rec yds · 37 TD |
| 8 | Mo Lewis | OLB | 13 (1991–2003) | 52.5 sk · 14 INT |
| 9 | Johnny Hector | RB | 10 (1983–1992) | 4,280 rush yds · 41 TD · 1,661 rec yds · 3 TD |
| 10 | Chad Pennington | QB | 8 (2000–2007) | 13,739 pass yds · 82 TD · 398 rush yds · 6 TD |
| 11 | Breece Hall | RB | 4 (2022–2025) | 3,398 rush yds · 18 TD · 1,642 rec yds · 9 TD |
| 12 | David Harris | OLB | 10 (2007–2016) | 35 sk · 6 INT |
| 13 | John Riggins | RB | 5 (1971–1975) | 3,880 rush yds · 25 TD · 1,162 rec yds · 6 TD |
| 14 | Bilal Powell | RB | 9 (2011–2019) | 3,675 rush yds · 15 TD · 1,600 rec yds · 5 TD |
| 15 | Jerricho Cotchery | WR | 7 (2004–2010) | 4,513 rec yds · 18 TD |
Score is a transparent production estimate, not the proprietary Knox rating.
| 4,016 |
| 42 |
| 7 |
| Robert Saleh (2–3) Jeff Ulbrich (3–9) |
| Made Playoffs |
| 2023 | 7-10 | 3rd | 268 | 355 | 3,373 | 1,647 | 3,373 | 46 | 17 | Robert Saleh | Made Playoffs |
| 2022 | 7-10 | 4th | 296 | 316 | 4,040 | 1,686 | 4,043 | 44 | 12 | Robert Saleh | Made Playoffs |
| 2021 | 4-13 | 4th | 310 | 504 | 3,959 | 1,667 | 3,959 | 31 | 7 | Robert Saleh | Made Playoffs |
| 2020 | 2-14 | 4th | 243 | 457 | 3,115 | 1,609 | 3,076 | 31 | 10 | Adam Gase | Made Playoffs |
| 2019 | 7-9 | 3rd | 276 | 359 | 3,443 | 1,257 | 3,443 | 35 | 12 | Adam Gase | Made Playoffs |
| 2018 | 4-12 | 4th | 333 | 441 | 3,404 | 1,619 | 3,404 | 39 | 13 | Todd Bowles | Made Playoffs |
| 2017 | 5-11 | 4th | 298 | 382 | 3,501 | 1,699 | 3,446 | 28 | 11 | Todd Bowles | Made Playoffs |
| 2016 | 5-11 | 4th | 275 | 409 | 3,645 | 1,802 | 3,645 | 27 | 8 | Todd Bowles | Made Playoffs |
| 2015 | 10-6 | 2nd | 387 | 314 | 4,170 | 1,868 | 4,170 | 38 | 18 | Todd Bowles | Made Playoffs |
| 2014 | 4-12 | 4th | 283 | 401 | 3,206 | 2,243 | 3,206 | 45 | 6 | Rex Ryan | Made Playoffs |
| 2013 | 8-8 | 2nd | 290 | 387 | 3,270 | 2,158 | 3,270 | 40 | 13 | Rex Ryan | Made Playoffs |
| 2012 | 6-10 | 3rd | 281 | 375 | 3,178 | 1,896 | 3,178 | 30 | 11 | Rex Ryan | Made Playoffs |
| 2011 | 8-8 | 2nd | 377 | 363 | 3,542 | 1,692 | 3,542 | 35 | 19 | Rex Ryan | Made Playoffs |
| 2010 | 11-5 | 2nd | 367 | 304 | 3,420 | 2,373 | 3,420 | 40 | 12 | Rex Ryan | Lost Conference Championship |
| 2009 | 9-7 | 2nd | 348 | 236 | 2,596 | 2,756 | 2,596 | 32 | 17 | Rex Ryan | Lost Conference Championship |
| 2008 | 9-7 | 3rd | 405 | 356 | 3,516 | 2,004 | 3,511 | 39 | 14 | Eric Mangini | Made Playoffs |
| 2007 | 4-12 | 3rd | 268 | 355 | 3,331 | 1,701 | 3,331 | 29 | 15 | Eric Mangini | Made Playoffs |
| 2006 | 10-6 | 2nd | 316 | 295 | 3,352 | 1,739 | 3,343 | 35 | 16 | Eric Mangini | Lost Wild Card |
| 2005 | 4-12 | 4th | 240 | 355 | 2,989 | 1,322 | 2,989 | 31 | 21 | Herm Edwards | Made Playoffs |
| 2004 | 10-6 | 2nd | 333 | 261 | 3,231 | 2,388 | 3,231 | 36 | 19 | Herm Edwards | Lost Divisional |
| 2003 | 6-10 | 4th | 283 | 299 | 3,524 | 1,631 | 3,524 | 33 | 11 | Herm Edwards | Made Playoffs |
| 2002 | 9-7 | 1st | 359 | 336 | 3,619 | 1,618 | 3,619 | 30 | 15 | Herm Edwards | Lost Divisional |
| 2001 | 10-6 | 3rd | 308 | 295 | 2,871 | 2,054 | 2,871 | 33 | 20 | Herm Edwards | Lost Wild Card |
| 2000 | 9-7 | 3rd | 321 | 321 | 3,983 | 1,416 | 3,983 | 40 | 20 | Al Groh | Made Playoffs |
| 1999 | 8-8 | 4th | 308 | 309 | 2,972 | 1,951 | 2,972 | 26 | 23 | Bill Parcells | Made Playoffs |
| 1998 | 12-4 | 1st | — | — | 4,032 | 1,634 | 3,810 | 33 | 14 | Bill Parcells | Lost Conference Championship |
| 1997 | 9-7 | 3rd | — | — | 3,555 | 1,294 | 2,871 | 25 | 12 | Bill Parcells | Made Playoffs |
| 1996 | 1-15 | 5th | — | — | 3,911 | 1,468 | 3,094 | 20.5 | 7 | Rich Kotite | Made Playoffs |
| 1995 | 3-13 | 5th | — | — | 3,129 | 1,256 | 3,105 | 26 | 12 | Rich Kotite | Made Playoffs |
| 1994 | 6-10 | 5th | — | — | 3,323 | 567 | 2,982 | 21 | 10 | Pete Carroll | Made Playoffs |
| 1993 | 8-8 | 3rd | — | — | 3,492 | 947 | 2,751 | 19 | 8 | Bruce Coslet | Made Playoffs |
| 1992 | 4-12 | 4th | — | — | 2,962 | 1,720 | 2,752 | 11.5 | 3 | Bruce Coslet | Made Playoffs |
| 1991 | 8-8 | 2nd | — | — | 3,310 | 2,139 | 3,234 | 17 | 3 | Bruce Coslet | Made Playoffs |
| 1990 | 6-10 | 4th | — | — | 3,010 | 2,109 | 2,855 | 8.5 | 2 | Bruce Coslet | Made Playoffs |
| 1989 | 4-12 | 5th | — | — | 3,614 | 1,567 | 2,921 | 6 | 5 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1988 | 8-7-1 | 4th | — | — | 2,567 | 2,083 | 1,819 | 1 | 5 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1987 | 6-9 | 5th | — | — | 2,696 | 1,324 | 2,025 | 0 | 0 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1986 | 10-6 | 2nd | — | — | 3,690 | 1,623 | 2,170 | 0 | 0 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1985 | 11-5 | 2nd | — | — | 3,888 | 2,119 | 1,743 | 0 | 0 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1984 | 7-9 | 3rd | — | — | 1,402 | 1,764 | 1,147 | 0 | 0 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1983 | 7-9 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 1,335 | 1,167 | 0 | 0 | Joe Walton | Made Playoffs |
| 1982 | 6-3 | 6th | — | — | 0 | 864 | 481 | 0 | 0 | Walt Michaels | Lost Conference Championship |
| 1981 | 10-5-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 641 | 527 | 0 | 0 | Walt Michaels | Made Playoffs |
| 1980 | 4-12 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 4 | 488 | 0 | 0 | Walt Michaels | Made Playoffs |
| 1979 | 8-8 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Walt Michaels | Made Playoffs |
| 1978 | 8-8 | 3rd | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Walt Michaels | Made Playoffs |
| 1977 | 3-11 | 4th | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Walt Michaels | Made Playoffs |
| 1976 | 3-11 | 4th | — | — | 1,090 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lou Holtz (3–10)Mike Holovak (0–1) | Made Playoffs |
| 1975 | 3-11 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 1,005 | 363 | 0 | 0 | Charley Winner (2–7)Ken Shipp (1–4) | Made Playoffs |
| 1974 | 7-7 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 680 | 180 | 0 | 0 | Charley Winner | Made Playoffs |
| 1973 | 4-10 | 5th | — | — | 0 | 482 | 158 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1972 | 7-7 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 944 | 740 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1971 | 6-8 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 769 | 639 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1970 | 4-10 | 3rd | — | — | 1,259 | 0 | 525 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1969 | 10-4 | 1st | — | — | 0 | 0 | 938 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1968 | 11-3 | 1st | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1,297 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | 🏆 Won Super Bowl |
| 1967 | 8-5-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1,434 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1966 | 6-6-2 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 840 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1965 | 5-8-1 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1,218 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1964 | 5-8-1 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 847 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1963 | 5-8-1 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 0 | 780 | 0 | 0 | Weeb Ewbank | Made Playoffs |
| 1962 | 5-9 | 4th | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1,041 | 0 | 0 | Bulldog Turner | Made Playoffs |
| 1961 | 7-7 | 3rd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 629 | 0 | 0 | Sammy Baugh | Made Playoffs |
| 1960 | 7-7 | 2nd | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1,265 | 0 | 0 | Sammy Baugh | Made Playoffs |
Full-history records + coaches from Wikipedia (facts-only); per-category team stats + points are exact for 1999+ (nflverse). Playoff box-score splits aren't yet in the free corpus.
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within NFL — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
Every position room New York Jets has passed down, steadiest first. The Specialists room is their most stable — 2 holders across 32 years, a new one every 16 on average.
+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1980–2025 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
Every NFL player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Jetsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth (complete 1999+, legend-era via validated Wikipedia/NFL.com grids).
NFL players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the New York Jets — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes (skill rows complete 1999+, legend grids validated).
+151 more one-club men with the franchise.
NFL players who wore the New York Jets crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises (skill rows complete 1999+, legend grids validated).
+431 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.