I think you take Reuben Bain with the no.3 overall pick, we would have a beast off the edge for the first time in forever. Could probably get Mendoza with the Colts pick, its worth sweating it out IMO
Mendoza, Moore and probably Simpson are all gone by the Colts pick, probably all gone by the 5th pick. QBs will be drafted at a premium as usual. If Moore and Mendoza are gone and we don't trade up I wouldn't hate Bain at 3.
You could be right but every year QBs shoot up the board and get taken top 5 deserving or not, especially after dart slid last year.
Jets trade 1st and 2nd round picks in 2026 and 1st round pick in 2027 to Baltimore for Lamar Jackson. -- Baltimore gets Moore with our pick. And we still have a regular stable of 1st, 2nd, 3rd round picks to put around Jackson. Take a WR with the Colts pick and this offense would be.. dare I say.. good... Lamar Jackson, Breece Hall, Garrett Wilson, Makai Lemon, Mason Taylor and the young, but skilled, offensive line
Jets trade back from 3, gather more picks and sign FA QB. Jets draft FQB in '27 with a better roster in place.
Not happening. Mendoza has a bigger frame, better physical Qb traits vs Dart and "better" stats to back it up. Much will be talked about as the draft approaches how Moore is the higher ceiling prospect and the Raiders are targeting him. In the end, Mendoza goes 1 to the Raiders and the Jets get spooked and trade up to 2 with the Giants, giving up this years 2nd round pick.
Wouldn't hate Bain, I like him a lot. Mendoza is currently the favorite to go #1 overall though - he'd have to tear his achilles tomorrow to be available at the Colts pick.
So if Giants are willing to make a trade with us then doesn’t that tell you they aren’t picking a QB? You think more picks entices them to pass on a QB the love so much over dart to trade it to us? No reason to move up let the board fall as it will. Draft BPA if one of the two QBs aren’t there and build a team around that. Can take QB in 27 with a much bigger and deeper class
The problem is that someone might jump us and trade with the Giants. When you see teams move up one spot, that's the reason why. If Giants wanted a QB, they would not be trading down. It might depend on who are non QBs available. If there is a consensus top guy, maybe Reese is clearly better than any other non QB, maybe the Giants would not trade down. But if there are 2-3 guys there that are in similar tier... We might need to give the Giants something to move up to #2 and stop someone else from jumping us. This is assuming Moore declares and this is a 2 QB draft. If Moore does not declare, the point is moot. In that case Mendoza is the only guy and the Raiders are getting him.
If we trade out of number two we could end up with six maybe seven first rounders in the next two years, lol. Realistically though we have five now so if we trade back we probably pick up one extra first round pick next year.
Only us to my knowledge. The Cowboys were the only other team but they traded the better of their pick vs. the Packers pick from the Micah trade to us.
So the most likely scenario if we trade back out of 2/3 to say 11/12 we end up with 6 first rounders in 2 years. We most definitely should use 3 of those for Burrow.
