This is one in a series of articles that will also appear in the New York Jets 2022 Yearbook, which will be published later this summer.
Zach Wilson is no longer a rookie quarterback. After an offseason that included work travel to Tennessee, South Florida and Arizona, the now-22-year-old returned to One Jets Drive this spring with a different mindset.
“My guy came back with a little more swag,” tackle George Fant said. “He’s ready to go, man.”
After his first professional season ended in January, Wilson didn’t wait until voluntary workouts to reunite with his teammates. In March, he threw to WR Corey Davis in Nashville and then headed south to Miami to train with WR Braxton Berrios and RB Michael Carter. He hit the desert for sessions with Elijah Moore, Denzel Mims and Jeff Smith. And the No. 2 overall selection in the 2021 NFL Draft filled out in the weight room when he wasn’t delivering ropes on his nationwide tour.
“Zach looks good,” head coach Robert Saleh said during the second phase of the team’s offseason program. “He looks beefy, in a good way. He’s definitely filled out. But he’s still got all his looseness and he’s throwing the football with zip.”
Wilson started 13 games last season, accounting for 13 touchdowns (nine passing, four rushing) with 11 interceptions while connecting on 55.6% of his passes. After a knee injury kept him out of the lineup for four games, the BYU product took strides and ended the year without an interception in the Jets’ final five games.
“I think Zach’s going to have a phenomenal year,” C Connor McGovern said. “He has the ability to make that huge play. That’s what makes quarterbacks in this league special.”
The Jets have put Wilson in a position to succeed. General manager Joe Douglas, who selected RG Alijah-Vera Tucker along with Wilson, Moore and Carter last year, came back this offseason and signed Pro Bowl LG Laken Tomlinson and two veteran TEs in C.J. Uzomah and Tyler Conklin. Those additions preceded a draft in which the…
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