Jowon Briggs
New York JetsUNDERPAIDModel Score
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
Season Stats · 17 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Comps
STM Take
Tier 8 (#69) rookie to tier 2 (#12) sophomore is a 57-spot one-year jump for a 2024 UDFA, one of the most outlier-positive draft-slot-vs-outcome arcs at the position in recent memory. The Cincinnati-via-Virginia pedigree plus the change of scenery from Cleveland to the Jets appears to be the catalyst. The 2026 question is whether Briggs holds tier 3 or better across a full second Jets season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.
Briggs came out of Cincinnati as a 2024 undrafted free agent signed by the Cleveland Browns after transferring from Virginia. He spent his rookie year as developmental depth, then was acquired by the New York Jets where he emerged into a structural interior role. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#69) rookie to tier 2 (#12) breakout in 2025 with the Jets, a 57-spot year-over-year jump.
Strengths
- 57-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#69) rookie to tier 2 (#12) sophomore as a 2024 UDFA puts him in the rarest outlier-positive class at the position.
- Cincinnati-via-Virginia ACC/AAC pedigree plus the change of scenery from Cleveland to the Jets confirms the structural ceiling existed.
Concerns
- Single tier 2 finish without prior top-50 STTM history puts the 2025 production entirely in the one-year-sample risk category.
- Jets' broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year offensive rebuild compresses the structural support around Briggs's continued production.
What to watch: Whether Briggs holds tier 3 or better across the full 2026 season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural rather than situational.