Notmally I agree with your sentiment, but this is a strange year for QB. Some of these guys were thought to be top prospects and had bad years. I have a suspicion that at least one long term starting caliber QB is coming from the mid/late rounds of this draft. I just have a feeling someone like Allar/Beck/Nussmeier might suddenly put it together.
Man, his injury can only have stabilized his draft stock. Make everyone forget the infinity loop where one minute you see him and he looks every bit the part; the next minute you’re shaking your head wondering what you were thinking. Of those three, I could live with Nuss as a 3rd round pick. This, after starting the season top of a lot of draft boards. I can explain away about half of that as LSU’s doing. Still seems like he has a career at least as a 10-year journeyman/backup. I wouldn’t want either Beck or Allar anywhere near a team I root for. Not the bench, not the training room and certainly not the field.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports Gardner Minshew did not suffer a torn ACL and “already is back to full strength.” Minshew was initially believed to have suffered a torn ACL in Week 16. The issue would have sidelined him for much of 2026, if not the entire season. Per Schefter, it was just a bone bruise that did not require surgery. Minshew did not suffer any long-term damage from the injury. Minshew will head into free agency with a clean bill of health. At just 29 years old, Minshew should have no issues finding another backup gig in the spring. 1h ago Source: Adam Schefter when gardener minshew was leaving for college he pulled his dad aside and told him "you're the man of the house now" I'd be down for it
How do we know he's not a Jets fan? And he's a adult yes what Mommy & Daddy or Grandpa says counts but he's going to do what he wants to do. One has to believe at this point the Jets are closer to the end of this cursed playoff drought than not. He could be our Josh Allen. The NFL must be salivating at the thought of a Manning-Allen divisional rivalry for the next 10-15 years?
With the second of two second round picks - maybe. But I doubt it. One solid season and then flashes mixed with letdowns equals 3rd Rd value, but you can’t pick what you don’t have. Couldn’t care less about the size of his hands. I’ve seen him throw. Plus, his career won’t be cut short by cancer, so there’s that. Your question leads to a much bigger point - so big that I’ll use text effects on the off-chance anyone in the Jets front office takes a break from granny porn to see this thread: the 2026 draft, more than any other since the invention of football, is the year NO team should overreach for a QB. Not because 2027 looks like a much deeper QB class - although it does. It’s WHY it should be much deeper that’s significant . I’ll get there. But first, somewhere in this thread I mentioned a threshold Round 1 requirement for any QB should be two years of solid college production. I’d probably extend that to Round 2 also. Yeah, that means Trinidad Chambliss would be on my Rd 1 draft board, Ty Simpson would not. Doesn’t mean I’d draft Chambliss in Rd 1 or that I wouldn’t draft either of them elsewhere. There’s such a rich history of Round 1 QB busts, it’s just a base-level qualifier. I’d rather pass on a guy who might turn into a decent starter than use Round 1 value on modest production, a fast 40 time and big hands. Nuss might squeak by as the second of two 2nd Rd picks because he has like one and a half years of production and a semi-decent reason why he can’t show the same college resume as a guy like Bo Nix. Still just a maybe with two 2nd Rd picks. Otherwise I wouldn’t budge on that rule, this year especially. This year proved the point. Started with a crapload of guys in the draft conversation who are now staying in college for two reasons: first, to reclaim that high draft projection they didn’t show in 2026; second, because the transfer portal and the market for college football talent has evolved to provide draft-eligible players a financial incentive to stay another year, develop their game and and improve their draft stock. Better still, they’ll either move to, or stay with, the most competitive programs and conferences. It has essentially formalized that threshold test I mentioned, and backed it with money. The only sucky part is the unintended benefit to billionaire NFL owners. They’ve dumped so much stupid-money on First Round QB frauds, and now a big chunk of that money and risk has shifted onto the backs of NIL collectives. I hope the NFLPA recognizes this come CBA time. This is really only year-three in the evolution of college free agency, and it’s been so Dodge City, the NCAA and pissy college coaches are bound to drop new rules to fuck things up. Everyday there’s another lawsuit filed against some player who signed and took money from a school and then hit the portal for more. No way the morons at the NCAA don’t meddle. At least for now, we have a projected 2027 QB draft class and a system that’s paying them to stay in college to develop and prove talent. To your question - would I reach one round higher since the Jets’ QB room is such a disaster? In 2026, over-valuing that position especially is just nuts. I’d have to really work to consider Nuss in Round 2. To be clear, the threshold test I described and this new college talent market are weak tools for limiting risk. Mitch Trubisky passed the threshold test. Cam Ward worked the transfer portal and NIL to build himself into the No. 1 pick. Plus, we’ll still have NFL coaches and GMs who think they have some magic power to recognize talent that no one sees. All I’m saying is - any team that reaches for a QB in 2026 immediately identifies themselves as dunces who don’t appreciate the college landscape. So …. I guess …. welcome to the Jets, Cade Klubnik.
