Justin Fields can help Jets pull off one of the most dominant plays in history thanks to NFL’s latest decision

The NFL has voted to keep the famous “tush push” play (or “brotherly shove” if you prefer) at the owners’ meetings on Wednesday and it will likely be a big part of the Jets offense in 2025. The play may be so important to the Jets, that they were reportedly one of the 10 teams that voted against the ban.

Teams that sided with the Eagles included the Ravens, Patriots, Jets and Lions.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 21, 2025

The “tush push” play has been very prevalent in the NFL the last few seasons, made famously mostly by the Super Bowl winning Philadelphia Eagles and their quarterback Jalen Hurts. The tush push has essentially made a one-yard gain almost guaranteed keeping offenses on the field and extending drives.

For the New York Jets, the tush push hasn’t been a weapon in their arsenal because they haven’t had a quarterback who can run it. Zach Wilson was undersized and Aaron Rodgers was frankly too old to line up and have a bunch of grown men trying to push him past another group of grown men trying to knock him back.

For better or worse, the New York Jets are now turning their team over to Justin Fields at the quarterback position. And while I have many, many issues with Fields as quarterback, I’m not too stubborn to understand the positives he brings to an offense. He can run. And he can run really well. And even better than that, he can run the tush push extremely effectively.

Since entering the league in 2021, Justin Fields has run 12 push sneaks or tush pushes, converting 11 of them. Only two QBs have done it more often and they are Hurts, and Josh Allen.

According to profootballfocus.com, Fields might not be Jalen Hurts, but he’s been one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the NFL on sneak attempts over the last three seasons. From 2022 to 2024, Fields converted 18 of his 22 QB sneak attempts for an impressive 81.8% success rate.

Couple that with the addition of Armand Membou along the offensive line, and the ever-present threat of Breece Hall and Braelon Allen, and the Jets should be in a good spot to convert a high number of short yardage situations. Now, if they can just find a way to get in those short-yardage situations.