I'd be willing to bet, within the next 5 years, you'll see this happen. I also bet, within the next 5 years, once it does, it'll happen...often. Times have changed. In fact, the more the $ grows in college, you'll also have these kids staying in school their full run of eligibility. Only the uber talented "generational" types will leave eligibility on the table, maybe. Mark my words...it's coming. These kids have nothing to lose, now, by staying in school and everything to gain by lining themselves up to be drafted by the best possible scenarios. Not only does this apply to QB's but to WR's, DB's and DL. The skill positions that get paid the most scratch in college will be impacted for sure. The fallout will be the worst drafting teams, especially at the QB position, as you pointed out Cleveland, LV and NY, will be constantly doing the "reach." Just an opinion... Hey, I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again but this, strangely, feels like it could have some legs. $$ changes everything and now these kids are putting generational $$ in their pockets without the NFL.
I don’t doubt that players will stay in college to reap the NIL benefits more and more. They definitely will. What I don’t believe will happen is that guys do that because they don’t want to be drafted by X, Y or Z franchise if they’re a top 5 pick. Especially the Jets in general. Not a good situation in the league for sure, but there are worse out there.
nah. If you are looking ahead like you are, its going to be the opposite of what you describe, I think. Soon they won't lose their eligibility at all by declaring, being drafted, or even playing in the NFL. College football wants to be the TEMU-version of the NFL. These guys will have a big year, try to take advantage of that quickly and enter the draft ASAP. When/if they bust, they can always go back to State University and make a mill as a fall back option. We are in the last dying years of when eligibility matters for college sports. The future is going to be a lot like the European soccer model, I would not even be surprised to see the day when the Jets "loan" a player to Iowa State or something
If there's a crap team in Cleveland and a crap team in New York why would anyone choose to go to Cleveland? I guess you've never been there.
I don't think they care that much. I'd play in Zimbabwe if they paid me $10 million per year to do it.
I think you missed a few points yourself. It's highly unlikely that NIL money will exceed NFL money. It's also highly unlikely the situation for the guy would be measurably better the following year. Sooner or later NCAA eligibility will disappear. Kicking the can down the road is not a viable solution.
Fair, although Lawrence and Maye, and to some extent Williams, had to endure the first set of. Bad CS to really shine.
At this point, I've got nothing left. You all can continue to speculate and figure it out then. Drag the same bullshit explanations through the mud with zero change in result. All I'm doing is taking into consideration variables that haven't been considered before. But, clearly, you all have it all figured out.
That may be a smart move, but he was a 1st round pick who showed some promise. Hopefully that's enough for them to take another look in 2026 and I hope they trade the pick to us instead.
The only thing I figured out is that the Jets are a bottom tier organization where all previous winners that go there quickly loose their winning ways. Very sad indeed. It is also true IMO that the Jets are by no means top choices or even desirable destinations for neither leadership nor player personnel. The pain is real.
That draft was a complete bust. Everybody failed that day. But it doesn't matter. You have to play at that table to draft QBs high. It's literally the single highest correlation to playoff success. Also hard to say. He sucked here. How much of that was the coach? Hard to know. And Sam had to go through a couple other teams until he came good. Like Geno. And with our coaching staff, it is unlikely that he would have improved. But I still remain convinced of the only reliable way to success. Get the right coach and keep drafting QBs with top 10 picks.
Those QBs didn't transcend anything. They got good when their coaches got good. Every single time. Now, the raw material was there, so then when the good coach arrived they won immediately. So I agree - draft away and draft high. Pick the right guy.
We are exactly on the same page, I will stick with my wording though because Maye/Caleb/Trevor they did look decent even with bad regimes, but when the good one came, they really shined. The point is, we need to get a QB and hope this regime does not ruin him, so that he can thrive with the next one. Now, Sam was one example where we did ruin him, and it took a while to rise up. But I do think with the protection we have and some weapons, it should be more like Trevor Lawrence/Maye/Caleb situation as opposed to Sam, particularly if Glenn will be gone within a year. The key will be who will replace him. And of course the #1 goal: can we get a QB? These meaningless special teams wins we had are really fucking us hard right now. We can win 3 games and have the worst rating from point differential in team history and still pick 4th with the Raiders and Browns as #1 and #2 with no path at the QB. In fact I think it is the most likely scenario. In a way this reminds me of Gase - when we were awful team with awful coaching, but managed to stupidly screw up the tank and lose Trevor Lawrence, who turned out to be a decent QB, even if not as great as projected, and the best FQB we would have had since Namath.
