{"id":185371,"date":"2026-04-04T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:57:38","slug":"arvell-reese-heavy-favorite-to-be-new-york-jets-second-overall-pick-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185371\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvell Reese heavy favorite to be New York Jets second overall pick in 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State edge rusher Arvell Reese has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/arvell-reese-has-visited-with-six-teams-picking-in-the-top-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">already met with six teams that have Top 12 draft picks<\/a>, but most of those teams probably won\u2019t have a chance at him, as the Jets appear poised to take him second overall.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2026 NFL draft less than three weeks out, everyone expects Fernando Mendoza to go to the Raiders as the first overall pick. And increasingly, everyone is expecting Reese to go to the Jets with the second overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Reese has been the betting favorite to be the No. 2 pick in the draft for most of this year, but the odds are growing to the point where he\u2019s now an overwhelming -250 favorite to go second overall.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 season was Reese\u2019s only year as a starter at Ohio State, but he made the most of it, as a first-team All-American and the winner of the Big Ten\u2019s linebacker of the year award. He has the talent to be an elite pass rusher. He won\u2019t wait long to hear his name called on draft night.<\/p>\n<p>If Reese doesn\u2019t go second overall, the next-shortest odds for the No. 2 pick are Texas Tech edge rusher David Bailey at +350, Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles at +1100 and Miami defensive end Rueben Bain at +1200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State edge rusher Arvell Reese has already met with six teams that have Top 12 draft picks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}