My god, that's not how planes work.
The engine pushes the air particles to the back of the plane. Because for every action there's an opposite reaction, the plane will move forward. Doesn't matter if it's a propeller plane or a jet, it'll accelerate.
To be fair, the prop created airflow does provide some lift, its nowhere near enough for takeoff on any conventional design, i dont think
any real aircraft design actually (no, the Osprey doesen't count, as technically it can't really be called a fixed wing aircraft as its wings alone do not provide enough lift to fly it), but it is there, and i guess if one really wanted to, you could make a plane with a gigantic prop, about the size of the planes wingspan, that probably could lift off on its own propwash alone.. infact some RC models can allmost do that, needing only about a meter of runway (now thats STOL taken to the extreme!).
But this does create one important difference between props and jets, props don't need powered steering, the propwash moving across the rudder is plenty to steer the plane on the ground on all but the largest of craft (infact many early planes didn't even have a tail wheel, it was just a steel rod sticking out the back), not so with jets though, where the nose wheel will usually have a servo steering it to ease the workload, even on small jets, since the rudder is really doing you no good untill way past safe taxi speeds, the rudder pedals would be extremely heavy whilst taxiing without this.
Yeah yeah, its useless trivia, and not really connected to any of this, but trivia can be fun you know