Tight End · New York Jets

Jeremy Ruckert

No. 89 · 5th season

The door opened for Ruckert. Now he has to walk through it.

Sometimes the path to a starting role isn't a promotion — it's just someone else leaving. Tyler Conklin is gone from the New York Jets, and the depth chart shifted in a way that put Jeremy Ruckert's name somewhere it hadn't been before.

Ruckert is heading into his second year with the Jets. Until now, he's been in the background — learning, waiting, filling the third spot on a depth chart that didn't ask much of him. The departure of the player ahead of him changed that math.

He still comes into camp projected as the third tight end, which means the starting role isn't handed to him. It's in front of him. Those are different things.

For a player at Ruckert's stage, this is exactly the kind of moment that defines a career — not a playoff run, not a big contract, just a chance to show what he can do when the opportunity is real. Whether he takes it is the whole question.

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