Twenty-two NFL drafts ago, the circumstances were different for the Jets, but the volume at the top of the draft was similar.
Ahmad Gardner , Jermaine Johnson and Garrett Wilson pose at the Jets’ practice facility.“The biggest statistic of that draft was you had about 60 years of NFL football between the five of us,’’ Pennington told The Post. “That’s something I’ll always celebrate with our five picks there, because that’s hard to do.’’ Joe Douglas, Jets receiving wide-scale praise in NFL Draft twist
This Jets team is trying to find its way with an inexperienced head coach in Robert Saleh and one of the youngest rosters in the league. So, these four draft picks will be asked to do a lot more right away than those 2000 players were at the time. Left to right: Anthony Becht, Jonathan Abraham, Shaun Ellis and Chad Pennington after the 2000 NFL Draft.The Jets, 13-36 since 2019, cannot afford to wait for these four players to sit and learn, though. They need them to be immediate contributors.
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