New York Jets Start-Sit: Week 14 Fantasy Advice for Tyrod Taylor, Garrett Wilson, John Metchie III, Mason Taylor, and Others
The fantasy football landscape shifts each week, bringing fresh opportunities and unexpected challenges that separate the prepared from the pretenders. Savvy managers know that last week’s performance tells only part of the story, and diving deeper into the underlying metrics reveals the accurate picture.
This week presents some intriguing decisions. Here’s insight about key New York Jets players heading into their matchup with the Miami Dolphins to help you craft a winning lineup.
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Tyrod Taylor, QB
The yardage for Tyrod Taylor is almost never going to be there as a function of this offense.
We saw New York score 27 points last weekend against the Falcons, and Taylor ended up with 216 yards of offense when you combine passing and rushing.
I’m not taking anything away from what he did during Sunday’s win. But if that’s his environment’s ceiling (how often do you think the Jets score more than 27 points for the rest of this season?), there’s not really much of a case to be made for him as a fantasy asset in standard-sized, one-QB formats.
The 52-yard bomb to Adonai Mitchell was good to see, even with the defender falling to the ground while tracking it, and the 10-yard touchdown was an impressive read.
But my point remains. In a week where everything went right, he was 2.04 points better than QB11. The Dolphins own the fifth-best red zone defense, and it’s not hard to imagine both of these offenses operating with caution, something that has the potential to limit the possession count.
Don’t chase the QB6 finish from last week, I beg of you.
Breece Hall, RB
Breece Hall turned 21 touches into 76 yards against the Falcons last week, and that’s nothing to write home about, but he benefited from a muffed punt that set the Jets up at the two-yard line and found the end zone for the fourth time this season.
He was lucky to have that happen. New York averaged 4.3 yards per play for the game, and if not gift-wrapped that TD, he finishes the week RB37, not RB17.
I’m not asking you to apologize for the fantasy points; you take them where you can get them, but this is a broken offense that needs some fortunate bounces to get you the points they need.
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We’ve begun to see more versatility from Hall of late, including a remarkable sideline catch for 13 yards last week (he caught all 11 of his November targets), and that’s why he’s a lineup lock. He projects for 18-20 touches, and that can land him in starting lineups even without the boost of a touchdown.
The Dolphins allowed him to pick up 111 yards back in September and are the fourth-worst post-contact rush defense in the league. The end of the season might be clunky (Jacksonville next week and New England in Week 17 when leagues are being decided), but I think you have a low-end RB1 rostered this week.
Garrett Wilson, WR
News broke earlier in November that Garrett Wilson was placed on IR with a knee injury that was expected to keep him out of multiple games at the time of the initial diagnosis.
Given the direction of this season, it’s reasonable to think that we’ve seen the last of New York’s WR1 this season. That hasn’t been reported, and until it is, you’re holding. The required four-game absence means that Wilson can return for Week 15’s game in Jacksonville, a matchup I’d be fine with targeting, and a New Orleans matchup the following week would also be intriguing.
But I’m not counting on it.
This is a floundering team that isn’t exactly motivated to compete. This passing game is broken, but with Wilson under contract through the 2030 season, he’s their primary path to digging out. The Jets need to figure out the quarterback position, but they have a building block in their top receiver and will want to enter 2026 with him at full strength instead of putting him in harm’s way this winter.
John Metchie III, WR
Right as we were coming around to John Metchie, we got a 19-yard showing.
Selfishly, I burned time on Sunday watching the Jets to see if I thought what he was doing was real, saw him drop what looked like a touchdown in the making, and then stayed tuned in long enough to see AD Mitchell score all of the points that were supposed to go to our waiver wire find.
It happens.
He still saw eight targets, and forgive me if I’m not exactly sold on Mitchell as a WR1, so I don’t think we cut ties. Our job between now and the fantasy playoffs is to determine who is the WR1 in New York and if it matters.
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My money is still on Metchie (he was targeted on the first pass last week), but there’s a very real chance that it doesn’t matter. All we can do is take well-thought-out bites at the apple and let the chips fall where they may.
It’s Metchie over Mitchell for me, though both should be rostered: cheap targets are hard to find this time of year, especially for a team like the Jets, where we expect the game script to be running away from them more often than not.
Mason Taylor, TE
I can’t shake the feeling of Mason Taylor being a part of the long-term rebuild in New York, but he’s not someone you need to be banking on now.
Tyrod Taylor’s first two completions went to his rookie tight end last week in the win over the Falcons, hitting his quota early and moving on.
He was held without a reception for the remainder of the game and hasn’t reached 35 receiving yards in a contest since Week 5. This team needs offensive talent, and Taylor might well be a part of the vision, but for the 2025 stretch run, it’s tough to project much differently than what we saw over the weekend.
