The New York Jets and guard Joe Tippmann have agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Monday.
The move keeps the versatile and durable Tippmann, a second-round draft pick in 2023, with the Jets through the 2030 season. It also continues a recent trend by general manager Darren Mougey of signing the team’s young, promising players to long-term deals.
NFL Network, which first reported the extension, said it’s worth $66.4 million and includes $34.9 million guaranteed. The person confirmed the deal to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce it.
The 25-year-old Tippmann, who was entering the final year of his rookie deal, was a starter at center in his first season after being drafted out of Wisconsin. He moved from center to right guard because of injuries on the offensive line during the 2024 season and was the full-time starter at right guard last year.
Tippmann, an Indiana native, has missed just one game in his first three NFL seasons while starting 48 of 50 games during that span. He has developed into a key piece of the Jets’ long-term plans on the offensive line, along with left tackle Olu Fashanu, a first-rounder in 2024, and right tackle Armand Membou, a first-rounder last year. Center Josh Myers was signed late last season to a two-year, $11 million extension, and the Jets brought in free agent left guard Dylan Parham on a two-year deal worth $16 million in March.
Mougey and the Jets have made it a clear priority to sign many of their ascending homegrown players. They signed running back Breece Hall to a three-year contract last month that can be worth as much as $45.75 million.
Last summer, New York gave wide receiver Garrett Wilson and cornerback Sauce Gardner massive extensions — although the Jets later traded Gardner during the season to Indianapolis for two first-round picks and wide receiver Adonai Mitchell. Tight end Jeremy Ruckert was given a new two-year contract worth $10 million late last season.
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FILE - New York Jets guard Joe Tippmann (66) enters onto the field before an NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Dec. 28, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Vera Nieuwenhuis, File)
A business jet with six people on board crashed on a highway in Laredo, Texas, and caught fire Tuesday night, authorities said, killing one person and causing chaos as people left their vehicles to frantically try to smash the cockpit window and free those inside.
Drivers who came upon the burning plane, which was nearly sheared in half and tipped on its side, captured dramatic rescue scenes on video or rushed toward the aircraft on foot to help. Two people came running with a sledgehammer and shovel, which they used to strike the cockpit glass and try propping open the plane's door.
The plane crashed on the Loop 20 highway near the Texas-Mexico border shortly after 10 p.m., said Jose Baeza, an investigator with the Laredo Police Department. It was unclear if the person who died was on the plane or the ground.
Dashcam footage posted on social media showed the aircraft careening down the highway, taking out a light post before coming to a stop. It came to a rest not far from the Laredo International Airport.
“It looked like part of a movie. I was in shock,” said Zayra Garza, an esthetician who was driving her co-workers home when she came upon the crash.
No injuries on the ground were immediately reported, though five officers were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
The plane, a Cessna Citation Latitude twin jet, departed Tuesday evening from José del Cabo in Mexico and was bound for Austin, Texas, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
It's not clear what caused the crash as it reached Laredo, about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of San Antonio. Laredo International Airport Director Gilberto Sanchez told KGNS TV in Laredo that the plane experienced a mechanical failure. He provided no details.
Video posted to social media showed the plane on its side, smashed into a highway barrier. The tail was ripped from the fuselage and laying mostly intact on a lower-level road beneath where the rescue was taking place.
Garza began shooting video as she approached the scene and then stopped her vehicle across from the crippled jet, which was on fire.
She saw someone inside the plane trying to break the cockpit window to escape. Soon, people got out of their vehicles to try to smash the window from the outside as the fire on the fuselage continues to burn.
Garza’s husband jumped out of their vehicle to help and Garza then saw the door of the plane open. She said three people who looked to be teenagers rushed out, followed by someone who appeared to be a pilot. Another member of the crew tried to pull out a person who seemed to be unconscious.
As smoke billowed from the plane, a firefighter used a small ladder to climb into the aircraft to rescue the remaining passenger, while others shot water out of a hose at the wreckage. Rescuers can be heard calling for a rope as others use rods to hold up the plane door.
Several times, officers helping prop open the door dart away from the plane and double over in coughing fits because of the intense smoke.
“What was worrying me was the fire,” she said. “I was concerned that it could have just exploded at any time.”
This was the third significant aviation accident in as many days. A B-52 crashed Monday during a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California and killed all eight people aboard, while on Sunday, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
NetJets said in a statement that the crash involved one of its aircraft and it is working with authorities. NetJets is owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and allows people to buy part ownership in private jets.
People attempt to pull passengers out of a plane after it crashed on a highway Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Laredo, Texas. (Zayra Garza via AP)
People attempt to pull passengers out of a plane after it crashed on a highway Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Laredo, Texas. (Zayra Garza via AP)
A passenger, top, jumps out of a plane after it crashed on a highway as other people help Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in Laredo, Texas. (Zayra Garza via AP)
