10/24 — With the Jets short on wide receivers, Danny Woodhead was elevated from the practice squad and joined the active roster last week. Although he didn’t play at WR week against Buffalo, he did appear on special teams and he is expected to play on special teams again this week at Oakland.

“Anytime you get a chance to play it’s exciting and you just have to seize the opportunity,” the new No. 83 told newyorkjets.com. “I’m not changing anything. I’m going to continue to do the same thing each week.”

The 5'9", 195-pounder works hard and has great speed, and his blocking ability showed improvement in training camp.

The Jets special teams will need all the help they can get while playing against one of the NFL's best kicking and punting units in the Raiders.

“They have a real weapon in [Shane] Lechler,” said coordinator Mike Westhoff. “They’ve got the best gross and the best net. He blasts the ball. They get stuck and he comes in and 'boom,' keeps them in the game.

"And [Sebastian] Janikowski has been a real good kicker for them, too. You don’t know what he’s going to do. He might hit it out of the stadium.”

Woodhead said the two kickers “are phenomenal at what they do and we as a group will have to do some things to try and distract them and help the return game. We know they’re going to come out and boom the ball. We’re just going to go out and try and break one.”

Lechler and the punt coverage team's league-leading averages are 52.1 in gross punting and 44.1 in net. Janikowski, in his 10th season, can still put his kickoffs deep in the end zone, although so far this season he's had only six touchbacks and the Raiders' kick coverage is 29th in kickoff yardage allowed (26.5) and in average start after kickoffs (29.1).

With Leon Washington handling kickoff returns, the Jets are 16th in the league with 22.7 yards per return. With Jim Leonhard having done most of the punt returns, the Green & White are 11th with 9.3 yards per return.

“It’s frustrating for me because I’m used to really smoking it,” said Westhoff. “I expect to be better. Yet there are times when we haven’t had the opportunity. We’re so close and then we’ve had a couple of adjustments where we’ve had to put new guys in different spots and they’ve made a mistake here and there.”

But Woodhead doesn’t plan on being that new guy to make the mistake this week.

“I’m going to do whatever’s asked of me, go out there and work as hard as I can and we’ll see what happens,” he said. “I’m not going to try and do anything more than I should do. I’m going to stick with my responsibilities.”

*Special Teams Saturday