Zach Wilson trade closes book on Jets 2021 NFL Draft mistakes
There will be draft grades handed out this weekend after players have been on teams for a few hours.These are silly, of course.
All you have to do is look at them from prior years and see how wrong those initial opinions can be.Coaches and general managers will tell you that you need to see what a player does over his first three years to really evaluate them.That is why we are taking a look back at the 2021 Jets draft class to see how Joe Douglas did in his second draft.The results are not pretty.
The Jets entered that draft with two first-round picks thanks to the Jamal Adams trade with the Seahawks.They had the No.
2 overall pick after going 2-14 in 2020.It was the first draft when Robert Saleh was the Jets coach and the roster needed a lot of help.Most of the attention was on the No.
2 pick, where the Jets were expected to take quarterback Zach Wilson out of BYU and did.Douglas ended up drafting 10 players in 2021.
Only four of them remain on the roster.Here’s a pick-by-pick look back at how the 2021 class has played so far:The Jets book closed on Wilson this week when they traded him to the Broncos along with a seventh-round pick in exchange for a sixth-round pick.This pick might be the worst in franchise history.
It is at least in the conversation.Wilson was the starter for most of his three years here and had very few memorable games.
He threw 23 touchdowns and 25 interceptions.In addition, he was not popular in the locker room and had a high-profile mistake in 2022 when he did not show accountability after a loss in New England, which basically ended his time as the starter.In addition, he was not popular in the locker room and had a high-profile mistake in 2022 when he did not show accountability after a loss in New England, which basically ended his time as the starter.Vera-Tucker has showed tremendous ability when he’s been healthy, but he has suffered season-ending injuries in each of the last two seasons.
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