{"id":208938,"date":"2026-04-24T23:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:19:22","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-day-2-new-york-jets-discussion-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208938\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Day 2 New York Jets Discussion Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL PICKS BEFORE THEY ARE ANNOUNCED<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first round of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Draft<\/a> is in the books. The Jets selected edge defender David Bailey at #2, then picked up a couple of pass catchers when they selected tight end Kenyon Sadiq at #16 and traded #33 and #179 to the San Francisco 49ers for #30, selecting wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The second and third rounds of the draft take place tonight, starting at 7 pm EDT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganggreennation.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a>, having traded away #33 and #179 for Cooper, currently own just one pick tonight, #44 in the second round. Trading down would probably be a popular move with many fans, especially if the Jets are able to pick up a third round pick in the process, as they currently do not own a pick in the third round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Jets have needs at safety and cornerback. They also might target a linebacker, a defensive lineman or an offensive lineman tonight. Quarterback is also a need, though with Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson off the board in the first round it\u2019s not clear any quarterback left on the board would go as high as #44. We will see shortly what direction the Jets go in tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leave your thoughts on the 2026 NFL Draft below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLEASE DO NOT SPOIL PICKS BEFORE THEY ARE ANNOUNCED The first round of the 2026 NFL Draft is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,27896,40751,10],"class_list":["post-208938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets-discussion","tag-new-york-jets-draft","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208938","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=208938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}