For now, Aaron Rodgers leads the New York Jets in passing yards, but he is forty years old.
In his far too early 2025 NFL mock draft, Dane Brugler of The Athletic gave the green and white a long-term quarterback solution. In the first round, he projected Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders to the New York Jets with the 22nd overall pick.
Sanders isn’t a surefire first-round pick even with all the hoopla (he’s the favorite to go No. 1 in 2025, among other things). “The talent is obvious, but if he wants to be a top-25 pick this fall, he needs to make consistent decisions,” Brugler said.
Sanders Would Be a Fun QB Add for the Jets
Shedeur is the son of Deion “Prime Time” Sanders, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Sanders attended Jackson State for his first two years of college from 2021 to 2022 before moving to Colorado for 2023.
Sanders, 22, is described on the school website as being 6-foot-2 and weighing 215 pounds. In the previous season, Sanders had a career-best performance at the major college football level.
He threw for 3,230 passing yards, completed 69.3% of his throws, and had a 27 touchdown to three interception ratio. According to the school website, Sanders demonstrated some talent in the ground game by carrying the ball 111 times for 394 rushing yards and four touchdowns.
The Jets have only taken a quarterback four times in the NFL draft’s first round since 1992.
Rodgers has declared in the open that he intends to play for the Jets for a number of seasons. Should that materialize, the Jets would possess the advantage of nurturing Sanders and not have to rush him into the starting lineup.
Brugler predicted three quarterbacks would be selected in the first round of the 2025 draft in his far too early mock. At choice No. 22, Sanders was the final member of that group.
Since the Jets moved up to choose Jordan Travis in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL draft, there has been a lot of talk. The young man’s leadership abilities and unique qualities have been praised by the front office and coaching staff.
Speaking with draft analysts behind closed doors, though, many think his NFL upside is limited to backup quarterback status. They clarified that he would never be able to become a full-time starter due to his physical limitations. But they did leave it open that, in the proper circumstance, he might be a spot starter.
It is noteworthy because quarterbacks, whether they are starters or backups, are incredibly valuable assets, so if the Jets can develop Travis into a reliable backup quarterback down the road, that should be a significant victory for this team.
Joe Douglas, the general manager, stated that he wants to make the Jets organization into a “quarterback factory” at his pre-draft press conference.In an ideal world, he said, they would select a different passer in each and every draft cycle.
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