Garrett Wilson saves Jets’ season with one hand

Garrett Wilson reached to the heavens and caught the Jets season with one hand and saved it from falling into eternal darkness. 

Wilson saved Aaron Rodgers’ season. 

It was third-and-19 at the Texans’ 26 when Rodgers lofted a rainbow that Wilson snared with his right hand, falling backward against Darryl Stingley in the back of the end zone. It was ruled incomplete. And then overturned — his right shin landing in-bounds. 

A catch right out of the Odell Beckham Jr. playbook. 

Jets 14, Texans 10, on its way to 21-13. 

It was Wilson’s second one-handed TD catch of the night. 

Wilson was going to play second fiddle to Davante Adams. 

He said to hell with that. 

Adams had been out of the game to be evaluated for a concussion and Rodgers turned to Wilson. 

When Adams returned, Rodgers found him with a picture-perfect 37-yard TD pass and it was Jets 21, Texans 10. 

Rodgers, following a first half in which the emotionally bludgeoned boo birds were chanting, “Sell the team!” at Woody Johnson, must have poured himself some cayenne pepper and water in the halftime locker room. 

He used a balanced attack and the first one-handed catch from Wilson for the 21-yard TD that made it Jets 7, Texans 7. 

You can’t just snap your fingers and go Back to the Future. You can miss an entire season and turn 40 and dream about doing what Tom Brady did and discover that it was little more than The Impossible Dream. 

So here was Aaron Rodgers, trapped in a body soon to be 41, trapped inside a franchise that cannot shake Kotite’s Law, formerly known as Murphy’s Law, desperately seeking to exorcise demons he had only heard about from afar. 

Desperately searching still for MVP Aaron. 

He can still give you glimpses of MVP Aaron. 

Especially on a night when Wilson can remind him of the young Adams. 

For Rodgers, it was his first three-TD game of the season. 

Wilson allowed him to turn the jeers to cheers. 

The Texans had taken a 7-0 lead on Joe Mixon’s 3-yard TD run at the end of a 98-yard drive that consumed 8:23 of the second quarter. 

It should have been 7-7. 

Rodgers was sprinting to the end zone on the opening play of the second quarter to congratulate rookie Malachi Corley because Corley had taken a pitch right to the house for a 19-yard TD. 

Because these are the Jets, Corley nonchalantly dropped the ball inches before he crossed the goal line. 

Touchdown to touchback in the blink of an eye. 

The boo birds must have sounded deafening to Rodgers after Denico Autry sacked him on third-and-10. 

And again after Adams dropped a missile and then failed to march the Jets into FG range from the NYJ 46. 

The future first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback finished the half 7 of 14 for 32 yards. 

This is how Rodgers, from his 11, had begun the game: 

A throw out of bounds on the right sideline for Adams. 

A short throw over the middle dropped by Breece Hall. 

A sack by Autry. 

That telepathy between Rodgers and Adams? His trusted receiver zigged, and Rodgers expected him to zag on a sideline faux pas on the next series. 

Then Garrett Wilson reached to the sky and changed everything.