I' m scratching my head on this one. The guy was slated in some mocks to be picked 6th by Jacksonville. He falls 9 slots, which makes the cost of the pick where he is taken worth pennies on the dollar, and the Jets don't trade up?
Don’t worry…. We’ve got a Stephen Hill of a pass catcher coming up in round 2 lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I wanted him, but realistically that train left the station when we took yet another oline man. Teams are gonna have 8-9 guys on the line of scrimmage and GW will be blanketed. But hey fields will have all effing day lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
He went #14, not 15, just 7 spots after our pick. We would have to trade to #13 or even 12, since #13 in Miami, from 42 to beat Colts to it. This would cost even more than just an extra 1st rounder. Falcons just gave 1st rounder to the Rams to move up 20 spots to 26. It would cost way more to move 30 spots to 12/13. This was simply not an option. We could have only one of Membou or Warren. And the way the draft board has gone for OL (9 gone in the 1st round and only one decent prospect left, which will be gone before 42), it looks like we made the right choice. There is still about 10 TE/WR second round talents left on the board and only one OT (Ersery), who will likely be gone by 42.
Going from 42 to 13 (which is where you would need to get to leap the Colts, who ran to the podium when he was there) might be the biggest trade up in NFL history
actually, looking back the better move may have been to draft Warren at 7 and then trade above the Chiefs at 31 for Josh Simmons OT. It wouldn't have cost too much to move from pick 42 to pick 30, and the Jets would've ended up with both Warren and a good offensive tackle
Or stay put and take Ersery. Warren and Ersery is better than Membou and Fanin/Taylor/Arroyo in my opinion. But I can’t kill the Membou pick. Everytime I ran a mock simulator I’d feel a ton of apprehension taking Warren over multiple guys ranked ahead of him. I like Warren alot but I don’t think he’s elite. I think he’s gonna be one of those mid tier TE’s ala Friermuth or Hockensen.
We’ll see. I think the NFL was over reactive to the success of Bowers last year. It’s like when the league drafted a bunch of defensive tackles in 2003 (most that would go on to be shitty) because Warren Sapp dominated on a SB team. 6 were drafted in the first round that year if you include Ty Warren included our very own Dwayne Robertson.
