Late-Spherical Gold: Can the Jets Discover Hidden Gems within the 2025 NFL Draft?

Within the NFL, any workforce that desires to achieve success must hit within the Draft. It’s a nonnegotiable.

Groups want 22 starters and a bunch of depth and function gamers. There’s a laborious wage cap on this league. Which means that groups can’t solely hit early within the Draft. Additionally they want to search out worth within the later rounds.

We’re nonetheless within the very early phases of the Aaron Glenn-Darren Mougey period. Their first Draft class means as a lot as every other class. We don’t wish to learn an excessive amount of into it too early.

Nonetheless, there is a chance right here for Glenn and Mougey to point out they’re off on the appropriate foot. Struggles with late spherical picks was one of many extra understated causes Joe Douglas finally was unsuccessful as New York Jets normal supervisor. Douglas was strong in his early picks. Whereas there have been a number of strong depth addition in later rounds, Michael Carter II and Jamien Sherwood had been the one high quality starters the Jets picked on day three in his tenure. And Sherwood was solely a starter for one season on his rookie contract.

One of many issues I will likely be watching with Glenn and Mougey’s first Draft class is to see whether or not any of their day three picks instantly steps into the beginning lineup.

I searched the outcomes from a yr in the past, and solely ten whole rookies drafted in rounds 4 via seven began greater than half the video games and took part in additional than half their workforce’s snaps.

So if the Jets can discover one such participant, it might put them in roughly the highest third of the league on this space. That’s the place you need Glenn and Mougey to be.

There’s additionally the paths these prospects have. Each fourth spherical picks, huge receiver Arian Smith and security Malachi Moore, play positions the place the Jets are weak. Fifth spherical choose Tyler Baron performs defensive finish, a place the place the Jets have good starters in Jermaine Johnson and Will McDonald. The third defensive finish spot, nevertheless, is open. A 3rd defensive finish can get one thing near starter stage snaps given the remaining defensive linemen want.

It isn’t all the pieces. It received’t doom Glenn and Mougey if it doesn’t occur. Nonetheless, issues are lined up for a high quality management group to nab at the very least one late spherical starter within the Draft.