Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we focus on New York Jets pass-rusher Will McDonald IV, who had the game of his life after the franchise traded away their two best defensive players. McDonald’s word of the week was “relentless,” and that’s exactly what he was.

It’s never easy to be part of a team that has clearly punted the present for a better future. Though the New York Jets really didn’t have a choice but to pursue that necessary evil. The trades of Sauce Gardner to the Indianapolis Colts, and Quinnen Williams to the Dallas Cowboys, said to the world that the Jets were not happy with their current structure, and t

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