Blockbuster trades can reshape a team’s draft selections. How has this week’s completion of the Aaron Rodgers trade from Green Bay to the Jets shaken up the Green & White landscape in the 2023 draft?
Setting aside next year’s Jets second-rounder, which could become a first-rounder depending on how much Rodgers plays this season, the five picks that general manager Joe Douglas and his draft team will spend from Thursday through Saturday look somewhat similar, although less top-heavy, than they did earlier this week, before the Rodgers trade finally came together.
Round 1 (15th overall)
The Jets dropped two rungs in the first round, from 13th to 15th in the swap of No. 1’s with the Packers.
The Jets have had two 15th-overall selections in their history, the most recent coming in 1992 when TE Johnny Mitchell arrived from Nebraska to play four seasons, start 42 games and make 158 catches for 2,086 yards and 16 touchdowns in green and white. Fourteen drafts before that, DE Ron Faurot was taken at No. 15 out of Arkansas in the 1984 draft but lasted two seasons and 20 games before departing the Jets and the NFL.
One omen if the Jets see a defensive tackle they like at this position. Only one Pro Football Hall of Fame player was drafted 15th overall: DT Alan Page, selected by the Vikings in the first round of the first AFL-NFL Common Draft in 1967.
Round 2 (43rd)
The Jets sent the second-round choice they received from Cleveland in the WR Elijah Moore trade to the Packers as part of the Rodgers trade. They still hold their own second-rounder, 43rd overall.
The Jets’ top all-time selection at 43 overall: LB Ralph Baker, a sixth-round pick out of Penn State in the 1964 American Football League draft.
Round 4 (112th)
The Jets have retained their own Round 4 selection, which will be the 10th pick of the round near the start of Day 3 drafting on Saturday.
The Jets have had a good run of fourth-rounders, with their best at No. 112 being RB Joe McKnight out of Southern California in the…
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