The New York Jets have not recorded a single interception through the first 17 weeks of the 2025 season.
If the Jets fail to secure an interception in their final game, they will be the first team in NFL history to finish a season with zero.
The current record for the fewest interceptions in a season is two, set by the 2018 San Francisco 49ers.
The New York Jets are rarely on the right side of history.
Such is the case with an unusual defensive streak entering the final week of the 2025 regular season. The Jets have yet to record an interception this season, which puts them in danger of setting the wrong kind of NFL record.
First-year head coach Aaron Glenn’s squad has forced four turnovers (four fumbles, including two muffed punts). Certainly passes from opposing teams – 486 (30.4 per game) – have found the hands, fingertips, palms, grasps, breadbaskets, clutches and digits of Jets defenders.
But not full possession.
The NFL started tracking interceptions in 1933. The Jets would be the first team to ever finish the season with none. The San Francisco 49ers in 2018 recorded 2 interceptions, the lowest number on record.
The other teams with the fewest interceptions in the 2025 season are the 49ers and Tennessee Titans with 6 apiece. Only nine other times has a team been unable to nab more than 5 picks in a season; two of those instances came in the 1982 strike.
Glenn, a former NFL cornerback, fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilks on Dec. 15 after surrendering 48 points to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
In a way, Glenn has done this before. In 15 starts as a rookie with the Jets in 1994, he did not have an interception. But he went on to have at least one in the next 13 seasons of his career, and finished with 41.
Of course, all it would take for the Jets to avoid a dishonorable distinction is one errant Mitchell Trubisky – he’s expected to relieve Josh Allen at some point during the Week 18 game against the New York Jets – dropback. Even one pick would leave the Jets as the new owners of a record no unit wants.
But they’re unlikely to outrun history.
