But Bailey has his own bulging portfolio as he’s coming up fast on the outside as a contender for the Jets’ top pick. The 6-4, 251-pounder emerged in his first three college seasons at Stanford with career Cardinal totals of 14.5 sacks, 22.5 TFLs and 7 forced fumbles. Then he went through the player portal and finished with a big bang for Texas Tech \u2014 14.5 sacks, tied for most in FBS, 19.5 TFLs, 3 more FFs, and recognition as a first=team AP All-American and Big 12 DL of the Year. At the Combine, Bailey’s 4,50 was the second-fastest 40 among D-ends\/edge rushers, an eyelash of four-hundredths of a second behind Reese’s time.<\/p>\n
“I do think Reese has the higher upside, the higher ceiling,” Jeremiah said. “And I know the Jets have made a lot of moves on the defensive side of the ball, a lot of one-year contracts, some short-term stuff there. … I do feel this is more toward the long-term build with all those picks next year.”<\/p>\n
So Jeremiah feels strongly both ways. Or make that three ways, since the NFL analyst could even make a case for GM Darren Mougey and HC Aaron Glenn reaching slightly for the best linebacker in the draft, Sonny Styles, also out of Ohio State.<\/p>\n
“I’m a Sonny Styles guy,” Jeremiah said, “to the point where, if that were the selection, I’d be fired up if I was a Jets fan. Just knowing how impactful he can be and someone who, if you’re looking for guys that can be at the top-five at their position in the NFL, he’s got the ability to do that. He’s got the chance to become one of the elite, All-Pro linebackers that can anchor this defense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Bailey has his own bulging portfolio as he’s coming up fast on the outside as a contender…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34086,22597,85,9,24,55,54,12,56,61900],"class_list":["post-197632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-draft","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-path-to-the-2026-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197632","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=197632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}