{"id":216389,"date":"2026-05-01T06:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216389\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:56:21","slug":"jets-gm-darren-mougeys-revamped-process-laid-groundwork-for-draft-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216389\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets GM Darren Mougey\u2019s Revamped Process Laid Groundwork for Draft Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*&#8217;Trader&#8217; Mouge Does His Thing *In only his second season with the Green &amp; White, Mougey has earned notice and compliments around the NFL for many of his shrewd player moves, particularly the way he&#8217;s manipulated the Jets&#8217; board over two drafts with six trades, but especially this year.<\/p>\n<p>It started early in Pittsburgh when the Jets sent the No. 33 and No. 179 picks to San Francisco to jump back into the first round and nab Indiana WR <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/omar-cooper-jr\/\" title=\"Omar Cooper Jr.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Cooper Jr.<\/a> at No. 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ve talked about before is, when you have targets, you identify guys you like, you love, you go get them,&#8221; Glenn said Thursday night after the Jets on Day 1 added Bailey, elite TE <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/kenyon-sadiq\/\" title=\"Kenyon Sadiq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenyon Sadiq<\/a> and Cooper. &#8220;And that&#8217;s exactly what we did. Man to get three first-round picks and the caliber [of] guys that we got, the personality, the mentality, the football character, all those things are huge, bringing those guys on our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mougey then traded a pair of fourth-round picks (Nos. 128 and 140) to Cincinnati to move up 18 spots to take Clemson QB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/cade-klubnik\/\" title=\"Cade Klubnik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Klubnik<\/a> at No. 110. And he wasn&#8217;t done, sending two picks to the Seahawks \u2013 No. 199 (Round 6) and No. 242 (Round 7) &#8212; moving up 11 slots to take Miami&#8217;s massive G <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/team\/players-roster\/anez-cooper\/\" title=\"Anez Cooper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anez Cooper<\/a> (6-4, 335) at No. 188. If you are scoring at home, Mougey has acquired 18 draft picks and traded 20 picks (13 of those which have been sixth- or seventh-rounders.)<\/p>\n<p>Overhauling the System<br \/>Though Mougey didn&#8217;t get into the details of exactly how the Jets changed things, he praised his staff for energetically embracing his philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So last year, you get here, it&#8217;s hard to make an overhaul of a system&#8217;s scale and stuff, so you kind of just dive in and say, &#8216;OK, let&#8217;s figure it out as we go,&#8217; and we adapted and adjusted to the current group and you kind of figure it out,&#8221; Mougey said. &#8220;Then once you get through the [2025] draft you say, &#8216;OK, in the offseason, we&#8217;re going to get together collectively as a group,&#8217; and we actually created our own scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*&#8217;Trader&#8217; Mouge Does His Thing *In only his second season with the Green &amp; White, Mougey has earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,9,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-216389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216389","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=216389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}