Darren Mougey and Aaron Glenn have acquired respectable evaluations for his or her first draft as basic supervisor and coach.
Professional Soccer Focus and NFL.com each gave the Jets’ 2025 draft class a B-plus. ESPN gave the Jets’ Day 1 and Day 2 picks an A. Nevertheless, they acquired a B total as a result of ESPN felt like their Day 3 alternatives “didn’t muster much.”
Time will inform if this class will produce related outcomes to the 2022 class, after they drafted each the NFL Offensive and Defensive Rookies of the 12 months, Garrett Wilson and Sauce Gardner. The Jets additionally chosen Jermaine Johnson and Breece Corridor in that very same draft.
Now that draft season is within the rearview mirror, let’s reply your Jets questions in our newest mailbag.
The Jets entered the 2025 draft with wants at proper sort out, tight finish and extensive receiver. After choosing Armand Membou and Mason Taylor, the Jets addressed two of these with their first two picks.
Nevertheless, the extensive receiver place stays a priority outdoors of Wilson. The Jets drafted Georgia extensive receiver Arian Smith, who has blazing-fast pace. However his arms are inconsistent after recording essentially the most drops (10) of any receiver within the nation final season.
The Jets had different receiver choices in Spherical 4, akin to Virginia Tech’s Jaylin Lane, Utah State’s Jalen Royals and Auburn’s KeAndre Lambert-Smith, who may need been higher alternatives at one hundred and tenth total.
Along with receiver, the defensive sort out spot reverse Quinnen Williams stays a priority after the Jets surprisingly didn’t choose one. Final season, the Jets gave up 121.1 dashing yards per sport, the seventeenth finest within the league.
The Jets nonetheless have $27.2 million in wage cap area, which permits them to handle their want for one more extensive receiver or defensive sort out earlier than coaching camp in late July.
If followers assume the Jets will finish their dreaded 14-year playoff drought in 2025, they could be upset. Nevertheless, there’s a world through which the Jets may win extra video games than they did final season.
Clearly, the roster is lacking notable names akin to Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, Morgan Moses, Haason Reddick and D.J. Reed. However the Jets’ roster has sufficient expertise on either side of the ball to be aggressive and stay in each sport subsequent season.
Offensively, the Jets ought to have an improved dashing assault with quarterback Justin Fields and offensive coordinator Tanner Engstrand, who got here from the Lions’ workers that averaged 146.4 yards on the bottom final 12 months, rating sixth within the NFL. The Jets’ protection has been a top-five unit every of the earlier three seasons, and beneath Glenn, I count on that unit to no less than end within the prime 10.
My concern is that the AFC East has improved from final season. The Patriots spent essentially the most cash in free company and had probably the greatest drafts this 12 months beneath new coach Mike Vrabel. So, I wouldn’t be shocked to see New England end in second place within the division.
The Dolphins group appears to be in an identical place to the place the Jets had been a 12 months in the past. Their basic supervisor, Chris Grier, and coach, Mike McDaniel, are on the new seat, and I’ll throw Tua Tagovailoa in there, too.
The Payments ought to proceed to run the AFC East. It wouldn’t shock me to see the Jets win wherever from 5 to seven video games in 2025.
It stays to be seen if he really can develop into a Cribbs-type participant. I’ll say Smith has elite pace and was one of many quickest gamers on this 12 months’s draft. So, anyone was going to take an opportunity on him on Day 3.
Nevertheless, contemplating his arms and the way unnatural they’re, I might be involved about placing Smith again there on punt returns. On Day 3, I wouldn’t take into account it a major attain, however I might have chosen Royals at that spot as a result of I consider he’s extra NFL-ready than Smith.
Nevertheless, pace like Smith’s doesn’t develop on timber, so I perceive why the Jets drafted him.
This isn’t straightforward, however I keep in mind after they made Jamaican oxtails. Connor Hughes, who works for SNY, had no thought what an oxtail was.
All of us have mini places of work on the Jets’ facility, and Hughes’ is straight subsequent to mine. Hughes expressed that he had no thought what Jamaican oxtails had been and had by no means tried them in his life. It was so wonderful that Hughes now loves oxtails and even went to Manhattan to seek for some a 12 months in the past.
In fact, I’ve tried making oxtails at house, however the Jets seasoned them completely. I may also embody their lasagna soup, as we frequently request that throughout the fall and winter.
