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The Jets acquired DL Jowon Briggs from the Browns in 2025, and he recorded 4 sacks, 8 tackles for loss, and 38 tackles last season. Briggs thinks he has a better understanding of the game as he enters the third year of his career.
“Any chance I get to expand my football repertoire, it’s always open arms,” Briggs said, via Jack Bell of the team’s site. “I mean, it’s just a good challenge, because the more I know about football, this is Year 3 for me, the more I know, the more I can do. And it’s as simple as that for how I look at it.”
Briggs said his father always taught him to avoid getting stagnant and that he is looking to keep that mindset going into 2026.
“My dad used to tell me when I was younger that enough is not enough, and it was never a negative thing,” Briggs said. “It was always just letting me know, hey, ‘I realized that you’ve done this and you’ve done whatever successfully, but don’t get stagnant, that’s not enough.’ I always felt as if what I was doing, or what I’ve done — sacks, TFL, pressures, starting however many games was never enough, so I’m always at that internal competition with myself. I’m never ever looking at what somebody said. I might have short arms, that’s neither here nor there. All I try to make sure is that when you cut on the tape, am I winning the rep.”
As for his time in Cleveland, Briggs said he learned a lot from Myles Garrett.
“Shoot, I mean being able to play with Myles, it was a pleasure being able to learn. I mean, there’s not many guys you could go ahead and say, ‘Oh yeah, I mean, I learned from the greatest pass rusher in the league at that time when I was at the Browns.’ It’s a beautiful thing. … He’s an intellectual individual. He’s just a freak of an athlete.”
