Younghoe Koo Signs With Jets for the 2026 Campaign

younghoe koo is signing with the New York Jets for the 2026 campaign, giving the team a veteran kicker after he spent the 2025 campaign with both the Atlanta Falcons and New York Giants. The move sends him into a new job after a year that ended with another release.

Younghoe Koo and the Jets

Koo, 31, reached the Jets after a run that once made him one of the league’s best kickers. He earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2020, hit 94.9 percent of his field goal attempts that season, and led the NFL in scoring with 144 points.

His path back to that level has been uneven. Koo started his career with the Los Angeles Chargers, had a stint in the AAF, returned to the NFL in 2019, and first joined the New England Patriots' practice squad before signing with Atlanta.

Falcons Exit After Week 1

The fall started in Week 1 of the 2025 season, when Koo missed a game-tying field goal against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Atlanta benched him the following week, then waived him the week after that and turned to Parker Romo.

That ended a seven-year run with the Falcons. Koo had been Atlanta's full-time kicker until the 2025 season, and the change came after he lost the starting job in rapid fashion.

Giants Cut in December

Koo signed with the Giants after leaving Atlanta and appeared in five games for New York. He made four of his six field goal attempts and 11 of his 12 extra point attempts before the Giants waived him in December after he missed a pair of field goals against the Washington Commanders.

The Jets are getting a kicker with a long track record and a recent slump. Koo’s 2020 peak showed the ceiling, but the last two seasons have brought the opposite result, with two teams moving on in the same calendar year.