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Who is your top choice at 6?

Lil Woody

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Who is your top choice at 6?  

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  1. 1. I listed the 10 most discussed potential options for the Jets at 6. Given your pick of any of them, with no trade down options on the table....who do you take at 6?

    • OJ Howard, TE, Alabama
      25
    • Jamal Adams, SS, LSU
      20
    • Marshon Lattimore, CB, OSU
      5
    • Malik Hooker, FS, OSU
      8
    • Leonard Fournette, RB, LSU
      21
    • Derek Barnett, OLB, Tennessee
      3
    • Mike Williams, WR, Clemson
      4
    • Corey Davis, WR, Western Michigan
      1
    • Mitch Trubisky, QB, UNC
      6
    • Deshaun Watson, QB, Clemson
      25

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varjet

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In this draft in particular, I don't think you can focus on offense, defense, or a particular position at 6.

What should be off the board is DL, because we have too much of it, and positions for which the slotted compensation for 6 would be too much money for a rookie-a guard, a RT, a P, a K, likely a ILB.

Because of the slotted compensation, this player should be able to play right away, or if a QB, late 2017/2018.  The player should not have any injury issues, or behavioral issues.

Garrett will be gone, which is good, because I do not like him.

Thomas should be gone, which is also good, since I think he is actually an interior lineman, and he is too small for that.

Foster has too many issues.  

Allen is another DL, and he does not really fit with the Jets scheme.  

Fournette can be good and worthy of that comp, or perhaps not.  

Hooker has high upside but has injury issues and needs to learn to tackle.  

So my draft board at 6 would look like this:

Garrett

Adams

Howard

Trubisky

Trade down

Fournette

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Jetster

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I wanted Adams but I see no way in hell a guy with his measurables, work ethic, and tape makes it to 6. This kid is being compared to Earl Thomas, but I believe he's even bigger.

He had the best time in his CLOSING SPEED testing & has some of the best change of direction (foot work) ever tested at the combine. That speed in the 2nd half of his get up is how you close on a ball and disrupt plays all over the field. Some scouts have as the best (safest) pick on their entire boards, or the 2nd best player in this entire draft!

This is how you build a team, without a great QB, while your looking to the near future of finally finding a QB. Imagine having Leo, one of the best Dlineman in football, then adding maybe one of the best safeties in football, you start seeing a progression the Jets haven't had in a long time.

Just look at the Pats to see how important Belichick believes safety play is in this new NFL. They moved McCourty from CB, and paid him a lot more than anyone else in that secondary until they signed Gilmore. And while McCourty is a fine smart safety now, Adams has way more athleticism than McCourty. 

But if somehow Adams fall, which is highly unlikely, and the Jets send that card up with his name on it, I'm a happy Jet fan. Keep adding studs over the next 2 years, we'll have a ton of money to fill a few holes next year.

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JetFaninMI

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8 hours ago, T0mShane said:

I'll make you a deal. We draft Watson...at 12...then immediately trade Hackenberg to Houston for a conditional pick in 2018 (which ends up being a 6th, but who cares). 

If this happened I would be happy. Until Hack leads a talented Houston team to its first Super Bowl win. That would be the Jets luck running true to form.

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T0mShane

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31 minutes ago, JoeC36 said:

As if you havent already for the last 6 years

I really checked out the moment Idzik started jumping up and down in the locker room when he announced Rex was coming back. It gave me the same sense of despair and betrayal as when Rolfe starts blowing the Hitler Youth whistle in The Sound of Music.

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JoeC36

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5 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

I really checked out the moment Idzik started jumping up and down in the locker room when he announced Rex was coming back. It gave me the same sense of despair and betrayal as when Rolfe starts blowing the Hitler Youth whistle in The Sound of Music.

Really? I had that pegged as your favorite part. I'm a fan of the nuns ripping out the cars insides

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4 minutes ago, #bman said:

Get me Adams. If not then maybe Fournette. Adams can instantly stabilize the secondary.  I'm even willing to trade a future pick to move up 1 to get him.

IMO the way mccags thinks he would take conley, just have the cb vibe in the first round.

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Persiussa

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3 hours ago, CrazyCarl40 said:

He's not.

Besides Zeke last year, when's the last time a top ten running back panned out? 

I can't actually answer that question but it's probably a shorter timeframe than a top 10 safety or tight end.  They're all non premium positions that are questionable picks in the top 10 so it would almost be better if the jets won a few more games to fall in a good range for pass rushers or offensive tackles.

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NYDreamer

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Fournette, Howard, Thomas, Adams, Foster, Williams:  This is my order and the players I would choose from.  With the Jets spending a lot of time in Alabama and the push to almost sign Hightower from the Pats really has me thinking they may go with Foster.

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Sperm Edwards

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5 hours ago, CrazyCarl40 said:

He's not.

Besides Zeke last year, when's the last time a top ten running back panned out? 

Kind of half the point of the stance is that Zeke hasn't necessarily panned out yet. He had a super rookie season, but nobody drafts any player that highly just to get 1-2 such seasons out of him. The very idea behind not taking RBs around the top 5 isn't fear that they will be busts; it's that even if they are good the likelihood is their career will be far shorter than someone really good at another position.

Disproportionate importance of the QB position aside, the other benefit is (if they pan out in the first place) they're far more likely to have 10-15 year starting careers than a RB starting for more than 5 years. Zeke looked terrific, but as of today it's still a guess that his career won't be on the downswing - if not essentially over - before those first 5 seasons are completed.

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slats

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55 minutes ago, Sperm Edwards said:

Kind of half the point of the stance is that Zeke hasn't necessarily panned out yet. He had a super rookie season, but nobody drafts any player that highly just to get 1-2 such seasons out of him. The very idea behind not taking RBs around the top 5 isn't fear that they will be busts; it's that even if they are good the likelihood is their career will be far shorter than someone really good at another position.

Disproportionate importance of the QB position aside, the other benefit is (if they pan out in the first place) they're far more likely to have 10-15 year starting careers than a RB starting for more than 5 years. Zeke looked terrific, but as of today it's still a guess that his career won't be on the downswing - if not essentially over - before those first 5 seasons are completed.

The draft pick is about the first five years of the player's career, after that you're paying free agent prices. 

If they think a RB is a once in a generation type of talent, I have no problem taking him, franchising him a couple years, and getting a comp pick out of him as he approaches 30. 

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30 minutes ago, slats said:

The draft pick is about the first five years of the player's career, after that you're paying free agent prices. 

If they think a RB is a once in a generation type of talent, I have no problem taking him, franchising him a couple years, and getting a comp pick out of him as he approaches 30. 

Well yes and no. I wouldn't presume that a coveted QB (for example), who's worth a new contract, will be available in free agency. Prices aside, most of the very top 5-10 yr veteran players are only available to the teams that first drafted them.

We couldn't sign Russell Wilson to a veteran FA contract no matter how much money we're willing to ante up. 

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3 hours ago, Warfish said:

Am amazed at all the love for Howard, an underperforming TE in college.  At #6.  smh.

Because Lane Kiffin refused to use him as anything but a checkdown

 

But ya we should use the 6 pick on a qb who started 11 games

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UnitedWhofans

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2 hours ago, thadude said:

Because Lane Kiffin refused to use him as anything but a checkdown

 

But ya we should use the 6 pick on a qb who started 11 games

It's amazing that people don't seem to grasp the concept that Alabama doesn't throw the football. Besides, He caught 114 passes for 1700 yards and 7 TDs in his career. That's not chicken feed.

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If Trubisky is on the board at 6, I take him unless I can accomplish a trade down that either gives me 2 1st round picks this year or 1 this year, 1 next year + additional picks .

If Trubisky is off the board at 6 and I can't trade out, then I hope Jamal Adams is still on the board . 

If both are gone and I have to make the pick at 6, I think I will take whoever I consider the best Edge rushing OLB in this draft . If that's Harris, then I take Harris .

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