This is the 15th year we are doing a summer countdown of the top 25 players on the Jets roster, and it’s difficult to remember a year with as much change. Only 10 players on this year’s list were in the 2025 edition. General manager Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn have torn down a roster that is now barely recognizable from the one they inherited. Will it be better? We’ll find out. For now, we evaluate how it looks on paper. Just a reminder, we do not put rookies on the list because no one has any idea how a rookie will play in the NFL. Before we get started with this year’s list, here is a look at the players who have dropped off from last year, with their ranking in parentheses: Sauce Gardner (1), Quinnen Williams (2), Quincy Williams (4), John Simpson (6), Alijah Vera-Tucker (8