Jets LB Johnson to play after missing 3 games

The New York Jets person "probably the worst defence successful the league," according to prima antiaircraft tackle Quinnen Williams. Maybe the instrumentality of borderline rusher Jermaine Johnson volition help.

Johnson, who missed 3 games with an ankle injury, volition play Sunday against the Denver Broncos astatine London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Jets (0-5), the NFL's lone winless team, are looking for thing -- thing -- to spark them.

"He does bring an borderline to him and he's different feline that tin get aft the quarterback," Glenn said of Johnson. "Any clip we tin bring that benignant of attitude, immoderate clip we tin bring that level of subordinate connected our squad backmost from injury, it's ever good."

The Jets' walk unreserved has disappeared successful caller weeks. After a four-sack show successful Week 1, it has recorded lone 3 sacks successful the past 4 games, including lone 1 past week against a depleted Dallas Cowboys violative line. And that 1 sack was a give-up play by Dak Prescott.

The mediocre play by the defence prompted Williams' unusually captious comments connected Thursday successful London, wherever helium blamed the defence for the 0-5 start. He's not wrong. The Jets person nary takeaways -- the archetypal squad successful NFL past to instrumentality an oh-fer successful its archetypal 5 games -- and they're allowing 31.4 points per game. Only the Baltimore Ravens are giving up much (35.4).

"We person to find a mode to get to the backmost and impact the backmost due to the fact that I deliberation that's the No. 1 happening that's going to assistance this defence ascend and spell to the adjacent direction," Williams said. "We haven't been doing that. We request to crook that around."

Johnson astir apt volition beryllium rusty due to the fact that helium hasn't played a batch of football. After a career-high 7.5 sacks successful 2023, which earned him a Pro Bowl spot arsenic an wounded replacement, helium missed the last 15 games past play with a torn Achilles. He made it backmost for this season, but injured an ankle successful Week 2.

"No disrespect to immoderate guys retired that are retired determination now, but I conscionable cognize what I tin do, benignant of the quality I tin marque connected defense," Johnson said recently.

The Broncos (3-2) volition beryllium a large situation for the Jets' walk rush, arsenic Bo Nix has been sacked lone 5 times.

In different wounded news, kickoff returner Kene Nwangwu (hamstring) was cleared to instrumentality aft missing 4 games. Since his injury, the Jets person utilized 4 antithetic returners, 2 of whom were released (Xavier Gipson and Isaiah Williams) and 1 of whom was injured (Braelon Allen). Williams is backmost connected the signifier squad.