The competitive fires never go out for Garrett Wilson. Almost a month ago, the third-year wideout lamented not doing enough in the Jets' game at Miami.
"I just keep trying to play my part," Wilson said after the game. "I have to play better. I have to win when they're expecting me to win. I have to win that much quicker. I've got to hold myself to the highest standard like I do because at the end of the day, I've got to help us find a way to win games and I haven't. We're 3-10, it's simple."
Wilson said this after he caught 7 passes for 114 yards and was one of the main reasons the Jets even got to overtime before losing to the Dolphins, 32-26.
G & Co. will try to do it again against the 'Fins in Sunday's season finale, and for Wilson it will be the end of one of the best seasons of pass-catching in franchise history. How so? Let us count the ways:
3
With 3 catches at MetLife Stadium, Wilson will have 100 for the season, joining Brandon Marshall (109 catches 1,502 yards, 14 TDs in 2015) as the only receivers to post 100-catch seasons in franchise history. And with a monster 13-catch year-ender, he would surpass Marshall's team record for catches in a season.
3
Last week at Buffalo, Wilson got the 13 yards he needed to reach 1,000 for the season, plus a little more. He is the second Jet to register 1,000 receiving yards in any three consecutive seasons as a Jet and the first to do it in 56 seasons, or since George Sauer executed that rarity from 1966-68. Wilson simultaneously became the only receiver to record 1,000 receiving yards in his first three seasons as a Jet.
6.1
Wilson and Davante Adams are each both averaging 6.1 catches/game. If they can stay at 6.0 or above through Miami, they'd be two of only four Jets to clear 6.0 catches/game in a season in franchise history. Marshall (6.8 in '15) and Al Toon (6.2 in '88) are the only other two.
7
That's G's number of receiving touchdowns this season. Not an over-the-top total, yet still close to the borderline in Green & White annals. One more TD and he would be one of only three Jets with 8-plus scoring catches in a season since 2012, joining Marshall again, plus Eric Decker, both of whom had double-digit TD grabs in that almost magical 2015.
39
Wilson's 15 receptions of 20-plus yards lead the Jets this season and give him 39 explosive catches of 20-plus yards in his career. He's already in the top seven on the franchise list of 20-plus catches in the first 3 seasons of a Jets career. One more would tie him with Titans WR Art Powell for sixth-most. Three more and he'd catch Powell for fifth. Wilson won't match Wesley Walker's first-three-years record of 55 explosives, but a monster 2025 would get within range of Sauer's 64 for most in the first four seasons of a Jets career.
51
With a catch against Miami, he would extend his pass-catching streak to 51 games, or every game he and the Jets have played since his arrival from Ohio State in the first round of the '22 draft. Only Keyshawn Johnson has a longer catch streak from the start of a Jets career at 62 games (64 if playoff games are included). Also vs. the Dolphins, Wilson can extend his active streaks for most consecutive games with 2-plus catches (44) and 3-plus catches (16).
57
He has 57 receiving first downs, 58 total first downs and 20 third-down conversions, all personal bests, team-leading figures and the best by a Jet since, again, the ubiquitous Marshall, who had 76 receiving and total first downs and 24 third-down conversions in his magical year in green of '15.
65.1%
That is Wilson's catch rate this year, receptions divided by targets, which will change after the final game but will still be his single-season best. In the last 10 seasons of Jets pass-catching, only Jamison Crowder's 2020 (59 of 90, 65.6%) unofficially was higher among qualifying WRs.
81
Wilson is not getting 450 yards against the Dolphins to surpass Marshall's franchise single-season yardage record, but with 81 yards, G will set a personal best for receiving yards in a season. His 1,103 yards as a rookie in 2022 is his best at the moment.
168
Wilson has three of the eight largest "target" seasons as a Jet — 147 passes thrown for him in '22, 149 in '23 and 168 this season. With just 6 more targets against Miami, he'd be at 174, one more than Marshall in 2015, which would be the most by a Jet since targets began to be rigorously recorded in 1991.
