Sunday was Jets running back Breece Hall’s coming out party.

The second-round draft pick had his best game in the NFL on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. Hall rushed for 97 yards on 18 rushes -- both career highs -- and caught two passes for 100 yards, another career-high, and a touchdown.

The Jets defeated the Dolphins, 40-17, on the strength of their rookies and none more than what Hall provided on the ground and in the air.

“He was awesome. He’s an explosive player,” head coach Robert Saleh said after the win. “We drafted him because we needed a home run hitter on this team and he did that. He hit a couple of home runs today.”

The first “home run” came as time was running out in the first quarter. Already up 5-0, thanks to rookie corner Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner’s pass rush that resulted in a safety, the Dolphins defense lost Hall running along the left side of the field. Zach Wilson eventually found his back in stride and Hall did the rest, scampering for 79 yards before getting tackled at the Miami one-yard line.

Second-year back Michael Carter would finish off the drive by driving it in for the touchdown and giving the Jets a 12-0 lead.

“[Hall is] getting better each and every week,” Wilson said after the game. “You can see his explosiveness and power…I get excited when I see him with that much room because he’s going to be running for a while.”

Wilson says he can see Hall becoming more comfortable in an NFL game each week and as a running back. The second-year quarterback also said he's observed the 21-year-old learning to be a running back, meaning when to move for the home run play and when to put his shoulders down and take the yardage.

So far this season, Hall has rushed for 275 yards, caught for 213 yards and three total touchdowns.

“Coaches always tell me to do the little things right and my natural ability will take over, and that stems back to college.“ Hall said of the 79-yard catch and run. “Today I ran the right route, sold it to the linebacker, got behind him, caught the ball and let my natural ability take over.”

That natural ability showed itself again in Hall’s second homer, which came in the fourth quarter. On third-and-11, and the Jets already up 40-17, Hall busted a 15-yard run to pick up the first down and ice the game.

The Jets are now 3-2, the first time they are above .500 since 2017 and Sunday’s win was the first over a division opponent in 13 tries. If you ask the players, it’s a combination of the coaching and the rookies. With so many young players on both sides of the ball, the Jets have something brewing and they know it.

“We have so much potential to be so good. We just have to keep chipping away,” Hall said of himself and his fellow rookies.

But Hall and the team know that just because they have a winning record that there’s still not work to be done, but he wants to dispel the notion that this is the “same old Jets.”

“We have a lot of momentum and confidence. We definitely earned it,” he said. “We’re still going to get every team’s best shot regardless of being the Jets. We’re not the old Jets, we’re trending to becoming a winning team.”

The Jets will look to continue their winning ways Oct. 9 when they go up against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.

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