The New York Jets return from their Week 9 bye hoping to build momentum after their last win, but questions remain about the health of their top playmaker. Star wide receiver Garrett Wilson has been sidelined since suffering a knee injury in Week 6, leaving a major void in an already struggling passing attack.
As the Jets look to secure just their second victory of the season, fans are eager for updates on Wilson’s availability heading into Week 10 against the Cleveland Browns.
Will Garrett Wilson Play Against the Browns?
Wilson sustained a hyperextended knee during the Jets’ Week 6 loss to the Denver Broncos in London. What initially looked like a mild injury kept him out for two games and three weeks. Despite the team’s insistence that the injury wasn’t serious, Wilson missed two straight games before the bye and hadn’t returned to practice until this week.​
All reports continued highlighting that Wilson avoided any structural damage and wouldn’t require a long-term absence. The timing of New York’s Week 9 bye worked perfectly in his favor, and Wilson returned to practice on Wednesday.
While he was limited on all three days and is listed as questionable, there is growing optimism that the 25-year-old receiver will be back in the lineup for the Jets’ offense on Sunday. While nothing is set in stone, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported on late Saturday that Wilson is expected to play against the Browns.
Through six games in the 2025-26 campaign, Wilson has caught 36 passes for 395 yards and four touchdowns, leading the team in all three categories by a significant margin. He is on pace for his fourth consecutive 1,000-yard season, a milestone he has eclipsed in every season with the Jets. That production is remarkable given the team’s lack of stability at quarterback.
The quarterback instability had been a significant storyline for the New York team. The organization signed Justin Fields to serve as its signal-caller this past offseason, but the experiment can only be described as a colossal failure. At one point, Fields was even benched in favor of Tyrod Taylor; however, Taylor sustained an injury, and the Jets were forced to turn back to Fields.
Wilson’s Fantasy Outlook
The hope is that Garrett Wilson (knee) is good to go coming out of the bye and while betting on the passing attack of the Jets isn’t exactly an optimal way to spend a Sunday, he has seen at least eight targets in every game he’s played this season and we have seen a receiver per week get home against the stingy Browns.
In fact, in five of their past seven games, Cleveland has allowed a WR to score at least 16.5 PPR points, production that Wilson managers would take in a heartbeat. If there’s a New York receiver that is going to flirt with that total, there’s no debate as to who it’ll be and even if Wilson comes up just shy of that number, he’ll prove worthy of starting.
I’ve got him ranked just ahead of Deebo Samuel (vs. DET) and behind Jaylen Waddle (vs. BUF) if we are stacking up talented receivers with iffy QB situations against one another.
