New York Jets land new GM as revamp continues after Aaron Glenn's arrival as head coach

Denver Broncos adjunct GM Darren Mougey is joining the New York Jets arsenic their caller wide manager, according to reports.

The Jets are undergoing a immense makeover aft a miserable play which saw them spell 5-12 and miss retired connected the NFL playoffs, with ex-player Aaron Glenn leaving his relation arsenic Detroit Lions violative coordinator to capable their head-coach vacancy this week.

Now the squad look to person landed a caller GM too, with reporter Josina Anderson claiming Mougey is acceptable to instrumentality complaint pursuing the dismissal of Joe Douglas successful November.

The 39-year-old, a erstwhile wide receiver successful his ain playing career, has spent implicit a decennary with the Broncos aft archetypal joining arsenic a scouting intern backmost successful 2012. 

He went connected to bask a fig of antithetic roles successful Denver earlier yet becoming adjunct wide manager successful February 2022.

During his three-year tenure arsenic George Paton's right-hand man, Mougey helped the Broncos unafraid its archetypal playoff berth successful a decennary this season, which ended successful decision against Super Bowl contenders the Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card round.

After an interrogation with the squad connected January 11, reports suggested the long-time Denver main was battling it retired with Cincinnati Bengals elder unit exec Trey Brown and Washington Commanders adjunct GM Lance Newmark for the occupation successful New York.

He has a immense occupation connected his hands with the Jets, who are inactive reeling from 2 of the astir anticlimactic seasons successful their past with backmost Aaron Rodgers astatine the helm.

There were precocious hopes for Rodgers successful 2024 aft his disastrous archetypal play arsenic a Jet, which ended erstwhile helium ruptured his Achilles tendon conscionable 3 snaps into his highly-anticipated debut against the Bills.

Yet contempt returning to afloat fitness, the four-time MVP was incapable to unrecorded up to expectations successful New York, with 10 defeats successful 13 games eliminating them from playoff contention by December 8.

Interim caput manager Jeff Ulbrich suffered a miserable spell successful complaint aft the astonishing firing of Robert Saleh, who was axed successful October aft going 2-3 successful the archetypal 5 games of the campaign.

Under Ulbrich, who stepped up from his antiaircraft coordinator presumption to instrumentality connected the interim job, the Jets went 3-9 portion missing retired connected the playoffs for a 14th consecutive year.

As much-maligned proprietor Woody Johnson began plotting the team's revamp, Glenn - who spent 8 years with the Jets arsenic a subordinate - rapidly emerged arsenic their No. 1 people to capable the head-coach vacancy.