The New York Jets are - once again - trying to turn things around ... and part of that effort is all about a new head coach in Aaron Glenn.
Is it also about running back Breece Hall?
Hall's situation, dating back even before this offseason, has been an unsteady one. The trade rumors in particular just won't go away ...
Until, maybe, now.
Hall is now speaking frankly about having heard all of the rumors himself, saying, "I was seeing it just like everybody else was seeing it.''
So how to make them go away?
Hear the truth from the boss.
Hall said Glenn called him to shut down the buzz.
"That meant a lot," Hall said. "At first, I just kind of like, OK, we'll just see what happens. And then, AG called me and told me: 'Breece, you think I want to trade you?' And I was like, I don't know. He's like, 'Breece, I don't want to trade you. I want you to be here. You're going to be here. You're our running back.'
"And so that felt really good.''
Glenn, during his early time here, has been nothing but blunt. (As the departed Aaron Rodgers). So if he didn't want Hall as a part of the 2025 Jets - and maybe beyond?
Hall, in his final contractual season, wouldn't be here.
The crowded running backs room here is a fact. In addition to Hall, the Jets have Braelon Allen, Isaiah Davis, Kene Nwangwu, and Donovan Edwards. But Hall is the one with the skins on the wall, especially as he lead the NFL in receptions by a running back in 2023.
How about a new contract to prove the club's devotion to him? That's a different story; extensions are certainties for his fellow 2022 draftees Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner. ... but for Hall, maybe not so much.
Allen is a young and powerful back and is highly thought of. But later in the 2024 season, Davis put up yards per carry numbers that impressed.
So the "by-committee'' idea is real.
But so is Glenn's honesty.
"For me to get to know him and everything, it's been cool,'' Hall said. "And to see how our practices are run, how competitive he likes it to be, and how he likes to put the ball down and just let us play. It's been fun."