By the end of the first game of the 2023 season, the New York Jets were already in trouble.
Only four plays into his first game as a Jet, quarterback Aaron Rodgers went down with a season-ending Achilles injury.
That left former top pick Zach Wilson to try and salvage the season.
As we now know, that didn’t happen and New York languished to a 7-10 record.
Rodgers is expected back in 2024, but the Jets will need help at QB in 2025 and beyond.
Paul Andrew Esden Jr. of the “The Manchild Show w/Boy Green” shared that he spoke with Jets insider Zack Rosenblatt about New York’s plans.
Rosenblatt’s response was: “This is the year they draft a developmental guy especially because Aaron Rodgers is turning 41 [in December].”
Get ready #Jets fans new QB blood will enter the room this offseason. @ZackBlatt said he thinks ‘this is the year they draft a developmental guy especially because Aaron Rodgers is turning 41 [in December].’
I then asked him what are the chances NYJ takes a QB with the No. 10… pic.twitter.com/0RrDVCFm75
— Paul Andrew Esden Jr (@BoyGreen25) February 24, 2024
Esden then asked Rosenblatt if he thought the Jets would grab a quarterback with their No. 10 overall selection and the writer answered with chances of 10% of that happening.
Rosenblatt elaborated that he felt the only way New York would draft a signal-caller that high is if the team’s many holes had already been filled [presumably in free agency] or “if the next Patrick Mahomes is in the draft.”
Of course, even when Mahomes was available in the 2017 draft, nine other teams passed on him before getting selected by Kansas City.
That included Chicago, who took University of North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
Even then, the Chiefs couldn’t have known that Mahomes would lead the franchise to three Super Bowl titles by the time he was 28.
In other words, there is no sure thing drafting a QB early and Rosenblatt’s words appear to confirm that idea.
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