Josh Reynolds 'Clear Cut Favorite' to be Jets' WR2, per Rich Cimini

With Aaron Rodgers out of town and off to greener pastures in Pittsburgh, Allen Lazard’s ‘become the team’s WR2 free’ card has started declining when Lazard swipes it going into 2025. Perhaps it’ll work better out in Western PA in 2025 if Lazard would happen to make his way out there. That’s reportedly because that role in the Jets offense is likely to be assumed by former Jaguars WR Josh Reynolds, who joined the team via free agency earlier this offseason. Reynolds is just a year removed from his most productive season in his NFL career in 2023, when he caught 40 passes for just over 600 yards and five touchdowns with Detroit. On most other teams, Reynolds would likely be fighting for a WR3 or 4 spot – but as we’ve come to learn, the Jets aren’t most other teams. With the departure of Davante Adams at the conclusion of the 2024 season, a gaping hole in the depth chart was left behind at the WR2 spot behind Garrett Wilson. With the Jets making no major investment at the position via the draft, the door was left open for Lazard, Reynolds, and rookie WR Arian Smith to duke it out for the rights to claim the WR2 job. At this point, it sounds like the job is Reynolds’ to lose, and he’ll be tasked with building a rapport with newly minted Jets QB Justin Fields. Just exactly what Fields is able to offer in the passing game remains to be seen – he’s been serviceable in supporting fantasy WR1s before (think D.J. Moore), but the biggest question for Reynolds will be whether or not he can separate himself from the rest of the pack in the WR room, as well as rookie TE Mason Taylor.