New York Jets Running Back Depth Chart — 2026

A handcuff is the backup who inherits the starter's workload if the starter gets hurt — so the Jets handcuff is whoever sits directly behind Breece Hall on the depth chart above. Rostering him is how you protect a starting back you have already spent a pick on. More on what a handcuff is.

Breece Hall does nearly everything when healthy — 60.9% of the snaps, 54.0% of the pass snaps, 48 targets — but has played 56 of 68 team games. Isaiah Davis drew 28 targets on 27.5% of the snaps; Braelon Allen played 4 games.

Hall has missed 12 of 68 team games across 4 seasons, 82.4%, so this is not a hypothetical.

What would come free is large: 242 carries at +0.59 yards over expected per carry, 19th of 49 qualifying backs, plus 60.9% of the snaps and 36 receptions.

The two candidates did not have comparable seasons. Isaiah Davis played 27.5% of the snaps with 28 targets. Braelon Allen drew 3 targets in 4 games — the reporting below has an injury behind that sample, which is why those games are not the whole story.

More than usual, because the head coach has said so. The reporting below has him indicating Hall will not be used as a bell cow, despite an extension.

Last season Hall still took 60.9% of the snaps, 12th among running backs. Davis took 27.5%, 52nd, which is a real rotational share rather than a token one.

The gap between that and Allen's four games is the whole reason this room is worth watching: his reputation and the snap counts disagree about which backup matters.

No — Hall keeps it, and that is the ceiling on both backups.

Hall played 331 pass snaps, 54.0% of the offence's, 15th among running backs, drawing 48 targets, 3.00 a game, at 1.06 receiving yards per pass snap.

Isaiah Davis played 219 pass snaps, 35.7%, at 0.85 — a genuine secondary pass-game role, and the strongest thing on his record. Braelon Allen played 26, under the 100-snap reporting line.

If the coach means what he says about not using a bell cow, Davis is the back whose existing role grows first.

What the beat is reporting, last refreshed 2026-08-28. Nothing here is measured — it is reporting, attributed and dated.

Breece Hall signed an extension worth 43.5 million dollars after his first 1,000-yard season (Sports Illustrated, 2026-07-08). Hall missed time in August with a groin injury but was running, cutting and changing direction at practice by the end of camp, and Aaron Glenn said the plan remains for him to be ready for Week 1 (JetNation.com, 2026-08-24).

Head coach Aaron Glenn indicated the team will not use Hall as a bell-cow back (Sports Illustrated, 2026-07-08).

Braelon Allen averaged over four yards per carry last season before an MCL sprain ended his year (Sports Illustrated, 2026-07-08).

Isaiah Davis has averaged over five yards a carry in limited work and is positioned as a third option (Sports Illustrated, 2026-07-08).