Jets stars and WAGs emotional journeys focus of new Amazon Prime Video docuseries

The Jets will be the stars of a new Prime Video docuseries that was announced Monday ahead of Amazon’s upfront presentation to advertisers.The six-part docuseries entitled “The Home Team: NY Jets” follows six players and their partners during the 2024-25 NFL season.Among the players to be featured will be Quinnen and Maranda Williams and Alijah and Jessie Vera-Tucker and provides “an authentic peek into the emotional journey these players and their families go on over the course of a 17-week NFL season,” according to Amazon.“From business endeavors to baby showers to family reunions, The Home Team: NY Jets will take viewers inside the professional and personal lives of these diverse, lovable couples, in order to show how family makes football possible,” the video streamer said in a press release.Prime Video is partnering with Skydance and NFL Films, along with VaynerWATT, to present the docuseries.A premier date was not announced.The behind-the-scenes look could provide Jets fans with a unique look back at what had been a wild season for Gang Green, amid a coaching change, the ongoing drama with then-quarterback Aaron Rodgers and a season that went very differently than expected.The Jets went 5-12 and led to a complete organizational overhaul at the end of the year.The Jets had previously been featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” prior to the 2023 season and the organization has produced its own in-house docuseries, “One Jets Drive.”Along with the Jets series, Amazon also announced an untitled documentary focused on ex-wide receiver Terrell Owens.That project will focus on Owens’ rise as “one of the most talented, accomplished, and polarizing athletes of America’s most popular sport” while looking into “his role as the preeminent ‘prima donna’ wide receiver of his era.”Prime Video has had an increasing footprint with sports programming, which has included broadcasting “Thursday Night Football” and, starting next season, coverin...