With the No. 2 overall selection in next month’s NFL Draft in Pittsburgh the Jets have an opportunity to select a player who graded No. 1 across the board in his position group at February’s NFL Combine.

That guy is Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles

“I don’t say this very lightly, but this is a player who could have a Fred Warner type of impact for your defense,” Trevor Sikkema, the lead NFL draft analyst for Pro Football Focus, told senior reporter Eric Allen on the “Now Boarding.” “And when you get to say things like that, that totally puts that off-the-ball linebacker position into that top tier positional value for what he can do for the rest of your defense. So, I think that you consider him.”

For the record, Styles (6-5, 244) opened eyes — wide — at the combine in Indianapolis. The 21-year-old LB from Pickerington, OH, had a time of 4.46 seconds in the 40-yard dash, a 1.56 10-yard split, 43.5 inches in the vertical jump, 11-2 in the broad jump — the best vertical and fourth-best among LBs at any combine.

“I can’t compare a guy to Fred Warner, and then at No. 2 overall, be like, ‘Yeah, let’s pick an edge rush here instead,’ ” Sikkema said. “If I honestly think that this guy has Fred Warner-potential, it’s so hard for me to not select him, because Fred Warner goes in the third round of his own draft [No. 70 overall in 2018].

“If you do a redraft to that one, I don’t know every pick of that draft class off the top of my head, but hard to believe that Fred Warner gets out of the top three. And I think again, we could be having the same conversation with Sonny Styles. So, he is somebody that I think is sort of that, that red star type of a player for me, somebody that I really, really love in this class.”

At Ohio State, Styles began his collegiate career as a safety, later moving to linebacker — the position his father Lorenzo played 6 seasons in the NFL for Atlanta and the St. Louis Rams. In four seasons with the Buckeyes, Sonny Styles played in 53 games, made 244 tackles (131 solo), had 22.5 TFL, 9 sacks, 9 PDs, an INT and 3 forced fumbles.

“If I was making the call, I would take Sonny Styles,” Sikkema said. “I think he totally changes everything that you were doing from a defensive perspective. He makes everyone around him better. He allows you to change your scheme. Be more versatile with what you’re doing. I’m gonna take Sonny Styles.”

‘The Best Receiver in the Draft’
Most observers and analysts expect the Jets to look for a player to complement WR Garrett Wilson. With the No. 2 and No. 16 pick in the first round, many mock drafts have the Jets going for a WR with their second first-round pick. The usual suspects are on the list: Carnell Tate (Ohio State), Makai Lemon (USC), Denzel Boston (Washington) and Omar Cooper Jr. (Indiana).

But Connor Rogers of NBC Sports believes the Jets will take a guy he called “the best receiver in the draft” — Jordyn Tyson (6-2, 203) of Arizona State.