Team Intelligence · AFC East · 2026 preseason

The Market Is Buying New York Jets as the 27th Offense. The Model Has It 15th.

The model forecasts a bottom-10 scoring offense — 17.8 points a game, 32nd — with its best fantasy real estate at quarterback (31st), and the market is still buying it as the 27th offense to own, 12 places behind where the model has it. Comparable offenses have supported 1.3 fantasy starters.

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17 August 2026 · 9 min read
17.8
proj points/game (32nd)
1.3
expected fantasy starters
QB 31st
relative strength
+12
market vs model, in places

The short version

  • 2026 forecast: 17.8 points a game (32nd), moves +0.2 points a game against 2025.
  • Relative strength quarterback (31st); relative weakness running back (32nd).
  • Comparable offenses supported 1.3 fantasy starters (bear 1, bull 2).
  • Market vs model: underpriced — 12 places apart.
  • No player on this roster clears the bar as a buy. Fade Breece Hall.

New York Jets scored 17.6 points a game in 2025, 29th in the league. The model forecasts 17.8 for 2026, 32nd. Every page in this series then asks the same two questions of that forecast — how many fantasy starters does an offense like this actually support, and is the market charging the right price for them — and answers both from the data rather than from the shape of the template. So the question for New York Jets is a pricing question: the model and the market disagree about this whole offense by 12 league places, and someone is wrong.

Who this offense actually is

Over 2021–2025 this offense scored 18.2/17.4/15.8/19.9/17.6 points a game and threw on 61.3/60.8/60.8/62.5/52.1 percent of its snaps. Two separate readings come out of that. Its level: 17.6 in 2025, level with its own five-year mean of 17.8. Its trend: a five-year slope of +0.1 points a season, which is flat.

Across the same window it has leaned further into the run (-1.7 points of pass rate a season). In 2025 it ran 55.9 snaps from scrimmage a game, 27th in the league. That is play volume, not pace: it counts snaps, and snaps are driven as much by first downs, turnovers and game script as by how fast a team chooses to play. Genuine situation-neutral pace is not in this dataset, so this series does not claim it.

Five-year trajectory
New York Jets: scoring, pass rate and volume, 2021–2026
Solid line is points per game against the left axis; dashed lines are pass rate (right axis) and snaps from scrimmage.
The 2026 point on each line is the model's forecast, not an actual.

What changed, and why

Tight end moves from Mason Taylor to Kenyon Sadiq (a rookie) and quarterback, running back and receiver stay where they were. The model's scoring forecast moves +0.2 points a game against 2025, with pass rate +7.4 points and snaps +2.6 a game. The forecast delta is the result of those changes; the job changes above are the cause.

No fantasy-relevant player on this roster changed teams.

Coordinator, scheme and offensive-line movement are not in this dataset and are not recorded for this team. They are left blank rather than guessed at.

2025 to 2026
Where the forecast moves
Percentage change against last season's actuals.
Bars are the forecast's own movement; the roster changes above are what the model is responding to.

Where the fantasy points go

For 2026 the model grades this offense QB 31st, RB 32nd, WR 31st, TE 31st. Its relative strength is quarterback — 31st, one of the worst environments in the league. Its relative weakness is running back — 32nd, one of the worst environments in the league. And note the ceiling on that: quarterback is this team's relative strength and still only ranks 31st. Relative strength is not strength.

Position environment
New York Jets 2026 grades by position
Bars are inverted league rank, so taller is better. Green is top-10, red is bottom-10.
An environment grade is a thumb on the scale for a close call, not a ranking of the players in it.
Offensive pie against opportunity concentration
New York Jets — small pie, concentrated
Horizontal: how many fantasy points this offense has to give out. Vertical: how tightly its projected points sit on its top two skill players.
Small pie · concentratedLarge pie · concentratedSmall pie · distributedLarge pie · distributedNYJ
100% of this offense's projected skill points sit on its top two players, against a league median of 63%. Worth being precise about what this axis does: across 320 historical team-seasons concentration has almost no relationship with how many fantasy starters an offense produces (r = −0.07). The size of the pie decides how many; concentration only decides who.

What the market believes, and whether it is wrong

Every roster in the league is priced twice: once at the market's ranks and once at the model's, both converted to expected fantasy points a game through the empirical price curve — what a player at that rank has actually returned, 2016–2025. Ranks are not linear in value, so summing them would flatter deep rosters and undersell top-heavy ones; points are.

The claim is available here. Priced at market ranks this roster is the 27th most valuable in the league; priced at the model's ranks it is 15th. That is a 12-place gap in the model's favour, and the roster's own disagreements point the same way. This offense is underpriced.

The biggest individual disagreements on this roster: Breece Hall (-24) and Garrett Wilson (+4).

What offenses like this one have produced

Take the 2026 forecast — 17.8 points, 59.5% pass rate, 58.5 snaps, 2.6 red-zone trips — and find the 30 most similar offenses among all 320 team-seasons from 2016 to 2025. Closest matches: Las Vegas Raiders 2018 (18.1 PPG, 1 starters); Houston Texans 2022 (17.0 PPG, 0 starters); Green Bay Packers 2017 (20.0 PPG, 1 starters); New York Giants 2024 (16.1 PPG, 1 starters).

Those offenses produced a top-12 quarterback 3% of the time, two top-24 backs 43%, three top-36 receivers 60%, and a top-12 tight end 13%. That is where the starter count below comes from — it is measured off comparable offenses, not asserted.

1.3
expected fantasy starters
Bear1
Base1
Bull2

Read off the 30 most similar offenses in 2016–2025, not asserted. A starter is a QB1, an RB2, a WR3 or a TE1 — top 12, 24, 36 and 12 at the position. Across all 320 team-seasons the average offense produced 2.6.

The player board

No player on this roster clears the bar as a buy. Breece Hall clears it as a fade.

PlayerADPMarketModelEdgePPGRoleRiskCall
Breece HallRB34RB16RB38-24977MediumFADE
Garrett WilsonWR39WR19WR18+41277LowGOOD PLAYER, BAD ROOM
Omar CooperWR165WR66WR9750MediumTHIN MARKET
Kenyon SadiqTE166TE22TE2975MediumTHIN MARKET
Adonai MitchellWR190WR74WR159554MediumTHIN MARKET
Braelon AllenRB200RB64RB134339LowTHIN MARKET

Market and Model are ranks within the position. Edge is the model's position rank against the market's, after removing the drift that affects every player at that price — so it reads as “the model likes him this many places more than it likes the typical player who costs this much.” A call needs the edge to clear the position's bar (QB 7, RB 13, WR 11, TE 5 places), set at two-thirds of that position's own spread.

Model against market
Disagreement, in position places
Positive means the model ranks him higher than his price implies; negative means the market is paying ahead of the model.
Bars are the de-drifted edge — the same number the calls in the table are made from.

The three decisions

NO BUY
Nobody clears the bar
The closest is Garrett Wilson at +4 position places, short of the threshold. Forcing a buy here would be the template writing, not the model.
FADE
Breece Hall
Breece Hall is priced at pick 34 (RB16); the model has him RB38. What fired: the market pays for 24 position places more than the model gives him and a 32nd-ranked RB environment behind him. Cutting against it: a projected role scoring 77 of 100.

What would make this page wrong

  • The pass-run balance doesn't move. The forecast has pass rate going +7.4 points to 59.5%. That shift is doing real work in the quarterback grade above.
  • The price gap closes before you draft. The 12-place gap is measured against today's board; ADP moves through August.

The one thing to watch in-season

Watch red-zone trips per game. The forecast has it at 2.6 against 2.2 last season, and it is the input moving furthest from what this offense actually did. If it holds through the first month, the starter count on this page holds with it. If it snaps back, everything downstream of the forecast — the environment grades, the capacity number, the calls — moves with it.

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Sources: Auto Draft Years FF Model workbook — Team Data By Year, Team Stat Ranking, 2026 Team Context; Auto Draft Years 2026 consensus board (16 authoritative market sources); Player outcomes 2016–2025, Pro Football Reference via the project dataset. Team environment grades, forecasts and player model ranks are proprietary. Every figure on this page is generated from the dataset at build time; none is typed in by hand.