After becoming the first team to go scoreless in the opening period in its first six games since the 2008 Detroit Lions, the New York Jets broke through on their first drive against the Cincinnati Bengals on Michael Carter’s 8-yard touchdown run.

The Jets won the coin toss and coach Robert Saleh chose to take the ball for the first time rather than defer. Mike White, who was making his first NFL start in place of the injured Zach Wilson, marched the Jets down the field.

Wilson sprained his posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the second quarter of New York’s 54-13 loss to New England, when he was hit by Patriots linebacker Matt Judon, who fell on the back of the quarterback’s legs after he threw an incomplete pass.    

White was 7 of 7 for 65 yards on the 10-play, 75-yard drive that chewed up more than six minutes off the clock. Carter had a 6-yard run on third-and-4 from the Bengals 38 to keep the drive alive. New York also benefited from a pass interference call on Eli Apple on a trick play when wide receiver Jamison Crowder’s throw to Jeff Smith fell incomplete.

The penalty put the ball at the 8, and Carter scooted into the end zone on the next play for the drought-ending score.

New York entered having been outscored 44-0 in the first quarter this season.