Following the Davante Adams trade, the expectations for the New York Jets was for Garrett Wilson to get more opportunity to shine in the offense. He has been doing that and lighting up the highlight wheel.
With the Jets reeling and on the brink of another lost season, the Ohio State product showed just why he was selected with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft with an electrifying catch to catapult the Jets to a 21-13 win over the Houston Texans on Thursday Night Football.
Limited to just 2 receptions for 9 yards in the first half of the game, Wilson went off in the second half by catching two touchdown passes from Aaron Rodgers, the second of the two in serious competition for catch of the year.
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ONE-HANDED GARRETT WILSON TOUCHDOWN 🚨#HOUvsNYJ on @NFLonPrime pic.twitter.com/rvDWanuax5
— New York Jets (@nyjets) November 1, 2024
With the Jets down 10-7, Rodgers delivers this third-and-19 throw to Wilson in the back of the end zone. Looking like prime Odell Beckham Jr., the Jets star wideout leaps and came down with this one-handed snap in the back of the endzone.
Garrett Wilson helps the New York Jets save their season
The 26-yard touchdown put the Jets up and may have just been a season-changing catch for the Jets and a career-defining moment for the third-year wide receiver. It was a play that had Jets’ interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich lauding the game-changing play following the game.
“I was talking to the refs while they were revieing and just though, just for the sake of posterity you have to say that it is in so that ig goes down in history,” Ulbrich said, via the team’s official website. “That grab could rival the Odell catch. It was amazing. I thought because of his shin, it was close enough to challenge and thankfully they got it right.”
The refs made the right decision by counting the touchdown. But the bigger picture is how Wilson has come on this season as a top playmaker for Rodgers. He finished the game with 9 receptions for 90 yards and for the season now has 60 receptions for 663 yards and five touchdowns.
As amazing as that catch was, Wilson was prouder of his production in helping his team get a win.
"To go out in the second half and go 3-for-3 on TD drives, that is what it is all about," Wilson said. "You have got to have a good response to these events that happen and winning is eventually going to be the outcome. That is what we have been talking about all week, we really took it to heart, and I think the way we game out in the second half really proved that."
In what will rival the Beckham Jr. catch, may just go down as the Garrett Wilson catch, a catch that may just change the game for the New York Jets in 2024.