The former first-round pick for New York said he knew he had to come back to the organization to get them a Super Bowl.

Glenn, for his efforts as the Detroit Lions’ defensive coordinator, was nomin ated for the 2024 NFL Assistant Coach of the Year Award. Unfortunately, Glenn did not win it. Even so, he did fare well in voting.

If New York Jets fans weren't already excited about new head coach Aaron Glenn, they should be even more so now. The Jets got their guy. Glenn was drafted by th

Glenn walked into the locker room in Hempstead, N.Y., with stars in his eyes. For his rookie year, 1994, his locker was next to Lott’s. Glenn held Lott, one of the NFL greatest safeties in NFL history, then at the end of his career, in such high regard that he had a hard time speaking to him like they were teammates. He’d call him a father figure.

When Bill Parcells was hired as head coach of the New York Jets in 1997, cornerback Aaron Glenn thought his days in green and white might be numbered. "I thought Parcells was trying to kick me out the Jets building at one point," he said during a recent visit with Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller on SiriusXM NFL's "Movin' the Chains."

If there was anything to take away from Monday’s press conference, it’s this: The Jets are Aaron Glenn’s show. Glenn and Mougey will work together, and the historically over-involved Johnson still lingers, but the Jets will be a team cultivated in Glenn’s vision.

When the New York Jets introduced head coach Aaron Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey it was revealed the two did previously have a relationship and knew each other. Both of them discussed how Mougey was part of a group with the Denver Broncos who interviewed Glenn