Five days after making perhaps the best catch of the year in the NFL, New York Jets catcher Garrett Wilson put his famous hands to another use. Wilson and teammate Solomon Thomas spent part of Tuesday a day off for the players serving meals at the New York City Community Kitchen and Pantry Food Bank in Harlem . It was an early Thanksgiving dinner for residents and families facing food shortages, one of them an older gentleman wearing a New York Yankees cap said : “I used to play linebacker and it was a great catch.”

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Wilson estimates that he has received about 500 congratulatory messages since his one-handed, acrobatic catch for a 26-yard field goal in the fourth quarter that gave the Jets a 21-13 victory over the Houston Texans on Friday night. five weeks ago. He tried to downplay the importance of the catch, saying he did not want to be “put on a pedestal”. Teammate Davante Adams , during his weekly broadcast Tuesday on the “Up And Adams Show,” called it “a top-five catch ever.” The Jets, who will face the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, hope this could be the turning point in their season. Wilson and Thomas, who was nominated for the Jets Player of the Year award by Walter Payton last season, wore aprons over their Jets jerseys and served meals to about 50 people in the community dining room .