Jets receivers Garrett Wilson, Mike Williams drawing trade interest: report

With the Jets acquiring star wide receiver Davante Adams, teams have reportedly reached out about potential trades for Garrett Wilson and Mike Williams.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Jets have heard from teams about acquiring Wilson but are not planning to trade their first-round draft choice.

The same can’t be said about Williams, who the Jets are listening to offers on.

Two teams interested in Williams include the Steelers — the Jets’ Week 7 opponent — and the Chargers, who the veteran receiver played for in the first seven seasons of his career.

New York and the Steelers have decided to table discussions about Wiliams until next week after their Sunday night matchup, per Schefter.

The makeup of the Jets wide receiver room and how they will be implemented each week was dramatically changed with the addition of Adams. Wilson has 67 targets through six games this season — a team-high — and has 41 receptions for 399 yards and three touchdowns. 

But those targets will likely go down with Adams in the fold. The 2022 Offensive Rookie of the Year said he was not worried about losing targets.

“Nah, at the end of the day, if I do lose a few targets, that’s fine,” he said. “I got 22 the other day. It don’t take that many to get where I want to get.”

Williams has had some tough sledding in his first season with the Jets. In six games, he has 10 receptions (on 17 targets) for 145 yards and no touchdowns. He had one target in the team’s first two games, his first games since tearing his ACL that cost him most of the 2023 season. But after a high-water mark in Week 4 against the Denver Broncos where he caught four passes for 67 yards, the production has not been there.

He was also in the spotlight after the Jets’ loss to the Bills on Monday Night Football when Rodgers blamed Williams for running the wrong route on the deep pass late in the fourth quarter that was picked off, which ultimately sealed the game in favor of Buffalo.

“It was two verticals,” Rodgers said after the loss. “Allen [Lazard is] down the seam, Mike’s down the red line. So I’m looking at Allen, he puts his hand up, three guys go with him. So I’m throwing a no-look to the red line. And when I just peek my eyes back there, he’s running an in-breaker. So. Um, it’s gotta be down the red line.”

Less than 24 hours later, the Jets traded for Adams.