What Jets players have played better than expected this year?

[long suffering jets fan]

Powell

Anderson

Wesley Johnson

Anyone else?

[Irish Jet]

Hackenberg.

[RutgersJetFan]

Gotta be Enunwa. Guy was the best player on the team this year. Show me the person that predicted that one.

[long suffering jets fan]

1 minute ago, RutgersJetFan said:

Gotta be Enunwa. Guy was the best player on the team this year. Show me the person that predicted that one.

And he catches a long one right after you said that.  I say Anderson is the biggest surprise, but Enunwa is my #2 and longer term has significant upside.

[Sperm Edwards]

1 hour ago, RutgersJetFan said:

Gotta be Enunwa. Guy was the best player on the team this year. Show me the person that predicted that one.

I can't believe Enunwa isn't #1 on everyone's list. He went from an afterthought who was at least a willing blocker (but nothing more than that) into a legitimately dangerous receiving weapon. 

Anderson is up there as well, but with Anderson (unlike with Enunwa) there wasn't this sense of him already being "known" to be an underwhelming receiver. 

[rangerous]

1 hour ago, long suffering jets fan said:

Powell

Anderson

Wesley Johnson

Anyone else?

enunwa, winters, ijalana, qvale, simon, stanford, roberts, miles

[Sperm Edwards]

20 minutes ago, rangerous said:

enunwa, winters, ijalana, qvale, simon, stanford, roberts, miles

I'd count Qvale as a disappointment rather than the other way around after the way the team talked him up in and before the spring. He was only starting because they didn't have anyone decent. Ijalana also underwhelmed for a guy that was taken 49th in the country not long ago. The OLman that impressed (other than one forgettable snap) was Johnson. Mangold went down and we didn't get noticeably worse. If anything, what I've seen are some decent holes up the gut that Powell's burst through.

[jbone]

United: "All of Macc's picks."

[Sarge4Tide]

Decker / Jalin Marshall / Enunwa / Robbie Anderson.....that's at least the start of a decent WR corps....if Peake can contribute, maybe Devin Smith.....maybe sign a decent vet FA...could be something in 2017 

[BRONX DUDE]

1 hour ago, Irish Jet said:

Hackenberg.

Ditto - beat me to it.

[Happy Clouds]

I know it's an extremely small sample size, but, Brandon Shell. Was solid in his first 2 starts, and playing well again today. Many of Powell's best rushes this afternoon, have been through the right side of our line. Hasn't allowed a sack so far. Seems to have a lot of potential.

[Sarge4Tide]

Sheldon can be such a good player.....

[ScarletKnight89]

Robbie Anderson

Brandon Shell

Bilal Powell- I knew he was good but he impressed me more this last month. 

[j4jets]

Fitz. He exceeded my expectations. 

[DetroitRed]

The line could be better than expected next year. Winters , Shell and Carpenter are a good start.


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[rangerous]

2 hours ago, Sperm Edwards said:

I'd count Qvale as a disappointment rather than the other way around after the way the team talked him up in and before the spring. He was only starting because they didn't have anyone decent. Ijalana also underwhelmed for a guy that was taken 49th in the country not long ago. The OLman that impressed (other than one forgettable snap) was Johnson. Mangold went down and we didn't get noticeably worse. If anything, what I've seen are some decent holes up the gut that Powell's burst through.

i should've added shell.  as for qvale and ijalana, they can still be very good back-ups.  it took winters 3 seasons and now he's looking pretty good.

[joewilly12]

#44 Lemon guy had a good game today. 

Robbie Anderson needs to learn to catch with his hands and not his body and go up and fight for the ball. 

Powell 

[JohnJ]

Tanner Purdum

[ASH1962]

5-11 LOL

They all sucked. It's like the Fokkers pinning a 10th place medal on the "Wall of Gaylord" only this would be "The Wall of Bowltite"

 

[Sperm Edwards]

1 hour ago, rangerous said:

i should've added shell.  as for qvale and ijalana, they can still be very good back-ups.  it took winters 3 seasons and now he's looking pretty good.

Shell did fine over the last few weeks. What sucks is it wasn't really a long enough look and I wonder if a GM like Maccagnan will be comfortable naming him the 2017 starting RT by not signing anyone else. He may very well do just that, and if Shell does in fact become a reliable starter it saves a lot of cash and headache. He has enough ?s everywhere except for Carpenter. Even the guys who started to look at least halfway decent (Winters, Wesley) are FAs that would be wise to test the market. Their injury risk is over, so there's no sense in taking less than the top offer, and the way to find the top offer is to see who calls once we're into March.

So if he feels good enough to go with Shell next year, and if he's right, it'll be a huge weight taken off his shoulders. Cross off that need in FA, cross it off in the draft, and if he can get Winters signed and figure whether to go with a cheap Wesley or an overpriced Mangold (fan favorite that he is), he then only needs a LT to complete his OL. Sure LT is a tall order, but he needs a new LT independent of whether or not C-RG-RT were settled, and even better if he can get the latter 3 done with youngsters for about half what the older Mangold was due to make on his own.

I wonder if Mangold has any trade value right now. Only 1 year left on his contract at $9m, and he's not nearly as reliable as he was not so long ago. My guess is nothing, and that MM would turn down any offer because of the optics of trading Nick Mangold for a 7th round pick or something. Matters not if he was going to otherwise get cut anyway, but that's the way so many fans and media writers frame it. They certainly did with Revis in 2013, and with Mo this past offseason.

[Integrity28]

I expected Leonard Williams to be our best player. I knew Powell was a very good RB a couple years ago. So, the only guy I can honestly say out-performed expectations was Enunwa.