New York Jets FULL 7-Round 2026 NFL Mock Draft

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Welcome back to with the first pick.

We're going team by team to build a perfect seven-round mock draft for all 32 teams,

and today we're breaking down the New York Jets.

They're biggest knees, best fits, and sleeper picks that can make their draft.

I'm Ryan Wilson, this former Titan GM brand, Carthon,

and before we get rolling here, as always,

I want to hear from you guys in the comments.

And for Jets fans, give me two names.

Best case scenario, but also sort of realistic,

that you'd love to see fall to the Jets with their two first round picks.

Ain't going to have to wait long, Ryan, because they're picking

number two overall as well.

In addition to 16, that was a sauce gardener trade with the Colts.

All right, let's get to it.

As I mentioned, they have those two picks.

Nine total, man, they feel the ton of knees and free agency.

They bolster both sides of the ball, offensive line,

defensive line, edge rusher traded for Minka and Gino.

And I think that helps inform a little bit what they might do here too.

But also, I don't, you don't go off a defensive line here,

because their offensive line is set.

They signed Donald Parham to start at guard.

Allegever, Tucker has since moved on.

They have the two young offensive tackles.

They have their center and Joe Tittman set at the other guard position.

So while maybe a month ago, you might like the idea of CC Malon,

know if, for example, to replace Allegever, Tucker.

Now it feels like even with all the moves defensively,

ran, Arvel is still on the board.

Yeah, I think I think this is Arvel Rees all the way.

But his versatility, playing off ball, playing on the edge.

Like you mentioned, they signed Joseph O's side.

Will McDonough was already there.

You signed JJ Egan Barry, just another pass rusher for

Aaron Glenn and that defense.

And I think this really brings home all the moves they made.

You talked about Egan Barry, signing DiMario Davis,

nation on right, Minkofis Patrick,

Dane Bell, and also traded for Tevondre Sweat,

the anchor to middle of their run defense.

I think adding Arvel Rees here kind of completes that project format on

defense side of the football.

Well, we're not going to have to wait long because we're going to pick 16 again.

And at two, I'll also mention this,

and you can tell me how far off field I am with this.

In addition to the edge rush possibilities, Laura Bell,

you can play him anywhere.

You can line him up at it.

I'll fall if you want to.

They have Jamie and Sherwood, of course.

They moved on from the veteran linebacker,

whose name currently escapes me.

But I think there's places for him to play that don't necessarily have to be

edge rush.

Does that sound right?

Yeah, I think so.

I think again, I know he probably in the three, four prefers to play on the edge.

But I think a guy with his versatility,

I actually like him better off the ball myself, personal.

But yeah, like I said, the versatility is what's going to matter most.

Quincy Williams, Quinne's brother.

I forgot his name for a minute.

All right, he's since gone.

So they have needs that outfall as well.

Smaller needs, but needs nonetheless.

Number 16, back on the clock.

So our bell at number one.

And look, wide receivers are neat.

And we're not going to take a wide receiver to you.

I had a long discussion on our wide receivers and running backs podcast.

You guys can check that out about Karnel Tate in particular.

So I mean, my motto is done overthink it.

My other motto is, how can I be so handsome?

But that's not for this conversation.

That's for another podcast.

That's a bad motto to have.

But McIleman is staring us in the face in terms of not overthinking it.

Now, you can be the kind of argument if you want.

And what are some other possibilities.

But I'll give you the floor, sir.

I mean, for me, and I'm looking at their roster,

obviously you got Garrett Wilson and Garrett Wilson is

an elite wide receiver in the league.

But then outside of that, you're hoping that Adonai Mitchell

can come along and then you have a bunch of guys

that haven't really proven themselves.

And so I think if you're talking fit,

I'm McIleman fits because like I said,

like I talked about yesterday,

I think his best fit is going to come in the slide.

All I have Jordan Tyson rated higher on my board.

So this will be one for you to kind of split the difference

from me to kind of, I would almost prefer Jordan Tyson,

but I understand the argument and then the fit comes in.

So Ryan, it's on you.

You got to make this pick.

So when you're having the pre-draft meetings

and you're talking to the medical people,

what do you need to hear from your doctor to make you feel good?

Your team doctor to make you feel good about your mod, excuse me,

Jordan Tyson's availability given his history of injuries.

Yeah, to me, and correct me if I'm wrong,

a lot of his injuries are soft tissue, correct?

He had a serious knee injury in 2022,

and then the other ones are soft tissue for the most part.

Yeah, so for me, I would have to just dig in deep rest

to why these soft tissues are occurring.

When are they occurring?

Is it load?

You know, we joke about the term load management,

but these are all things that they're tracking from a GPS standpoint.

Like how much is he practicing the yards travel is that why?

And if that's going to be why,

then we're going to have to, you know,

that's why I would probably just go ahead and play a safe

and take macaque lemon

because these guys are going to have to run.

And we can't afford to take a guy at 16

that we're going to have to manage his, his, his volume.

Yeah, you know, already as a rookie.

So just to be clear, 2025, Tyson missed three games,

the soft tissue, hand me injury, the 2022 season,

ACL, MCL, PCL tear.

So you had to get those reconstructed.

And then 2024, he missed a big 12 championship

and the playoffs late in the season

when they were on that run there.

He had a broken collarbone, which again,

that's the knee injury in the collarbone is sort of freakish.

The hamstring is actually something you can probably

have a little bit more control over.

Does that seem fair?

Yeah, that's fair.

Okay, so I'm going to go macaque lemon

just because I know he's going to be out there

and be a nice compliment to, to gear it.

But I understand it.

It's a clean bill of health.

As much as you can have one in football with Jordan,

I get it.

Let's let's do Jordan.

But for now, I'm done picking macaque.

And Jess fans, let us know.

I'm sure you're, you have some thoughts.

So I'd like to hear them.

Next up, this is pick 33.

I mean, we, listen, we, right, we say this all the time.

If you get the picks right and you get the coaches to have

the front office right and you get a quarterback.

That's a lot of, a lot of ifs.

But you can turn things around quickly as my point.

All right, so where do you want to go now,

ran because we got our edge rusher defender

and we got our, our number two is number three receiver.

You know where I want to go again.

What's the doctor going to say?

I'm guessing you're talking about Kayla banks.

Yes, if the foot checks out and we're all good.

Oh, you know what?

Nah, this is where, okay, this is where the conversation comes.

Best player available.

Yep, striking those weren't going.

Or do you get your quarterback in two?

Oh, there's Ty standing in the face.

Now here, here's the thing.

I, I am all for this and I will say this and I will continue to say it

through the draft until I'm proven wrong.

Ty Simpson is a really good football player.

For the first half of this season, we were having conversations.

Is he going to be QB1 because Fernandez was balling out,

but he wasn't balling out to the level that he finished the season.

Ty got hurt.

I wrote a whole thing about it.

We talked about it a lot.

You brought it up.

His struggles with deep ball accuracy and he's only six one.

So there are some mitigating only sort of 15 games,

but he's a coach's son.

He's 23 and he was one of the best short and intermediate

throws of the football last season.

And he reminded me on some level of Alabama,

Matt Jones, but a better athlete with a little bigger arm.

Those are, that's my sort of disclaimer.

I'm fine taking him here because if you have the offensive line sorted

and they're, they're getting there and you have some receivers

and they're getting there with that second first round pick.

And there's no rush, which there isn't with Ty,

at least in the first half of the season.

I'm forward, man.

You know what?

We got, we got three first round picks next year, right?

That's going to be the counter argument by Jets fans.

We got three first rounds draft picks next year.

We don't have to push it.

Let's go, Caleb Banks.

Let's build the entirety of this football team.

That's, that's right.

So what do you say to people that said,

hey, man, we just traded for Tovonders wet and we got David on Yamada.

Listen, David on Yamada is getting longer in the Tov.

And, and look at this.

Uh, let's forget it.

Now we take Ty Simpson.

He's available to us at 44.

All right, Jets fans.

Let us know if you're okay with this.

He's, you got three premium players.

And if Caleb can say healthy, he's going to, he might be the best player in this,

in this draft, this gesture app class we're talking about here.

And then you get Ty Simpson of 40, 46 or 44, excuse me.

All right, there we go.

And that's as close as, uh,

striker's going to get to one of his guys getting dragged because his brother works

for the University of Alabama.

So that's your, that's your connection.

There's striker.

All right, next up, all the way down to pick 103 in the fourth round here.

And then here's Drew Aller asking to be drafted against a bad news for you, Drew.

And that's more about striker than Drew.

No disrespect to Drew.

All right, so.

We have, uh, defender, wide receiver, another, uh,

interior defense of lineman and then our quarterback.

And where do you want to go now?

I've listened, man.

Maybe my, maybe I'm just not a good evaluator of talent.

Cause I'm, and again, I know this is PFF's rankings.

I still don't see how deontate Lawson is there in the fourth round.

And I'm, you know, looking at their roster,

Demario Davis is going in a year 15.

Um, Jamie and Sherwood is the other guy.

He's played well over the last couple of years.

And now you got that young guy that you're not having the force out there right away.

And can learn behind these two quality veterans and give you some special teams, uh,

looks because the depth behind those two at linebacker, it falls off significantly, uh, in my opinion.

So, uh, I would go, I would go deontate Lawson there.

Yeah, I'm with you.

Um,

Kobe Kings on the roster.

I'm just giving, um, striker shout out the former Penn State linebacker.

Who's a good football player, uh, in college and is finding his way in the NFL.

All right, a lot of defensive heavy guys at the top of the draft board as we sit here.

And let's see what else we got here.

So,

re-solves on the franchise tag.

They have Braille Nala still in the roster as they had Davis.

So there's not a huge clearing need there.

Uh, tied in.

They have a record who's young and obviously makes some Taylor going into year two.

Um, I mean, wide receivers probably still on the board.

There's someone that, that gets you going there.

And then I would argue cornerback.

The nation writes a fantastic pickup.

But they lost Sus Gardener.

Um, they do have Brandon Stevens who's, who's traveled around a little bit.

Uh, Jarvis Brownlee, did you drive Jarvis?

Yeah, I drive the Jarvis and Jarvis will be a nickel.

Right.

He'd be a nickel.

Uh, you mentioned Nation, uh, Brandon Stevens.

So yeah, I mean, um,

Julian Neil would be a quality pick for myself,

especially in, in round five at 175.

He's a physical corner.

He's long.

He can run.

Um, I'm absolutely on board with that as well.

Because given what they've done and it sounds crazy to say about a football team picking second

overall, we can take Julian Neil striker.

I think we're going to do that cornerback at Arkansas.

This feels like, um, we're in round six now.

So it is two more picks, three more picks here, round six and two and round seven.

This is the best player available, even for a team that was bad last year,

but they've done so much in free agency that, um,

it's sort of, that's the path we're now going down.

Anybody, um, stick out to you here as we get to pick 178 in round six.

Of course.

I feel like we're doing going down these same roads every time just because of our level of.

So you want to get, you want to get depth in the form of, uh,

Indiana Cougs, Pat Cougan.

So, but I'm saying like, look at Pat Cougan is there.

Uh, Aaron Anderson, uh, Armage, uh, Reed Adams is there.

Kate and Curry.

So these are some.

Hey, here's the thing.

I don't, I feel like in every one of these mock drafts we've done,

like I've taken some former Dante loss in Julian Neil.

In Pat Cougan.

I mean, they're good players and it's just what about DJ Campbell for you?

Uh, let me see about DJ Campbell real quick.

So I haven't talked a lot about DJ Campbell.

Let's see, um, I had a fourth round grade on them.

Let me see what is number six three, three, 13,

34 and a half inch arm.

So that all checks out.

Right guard.

He's only played right gardener's career.

So he gets you some depth there.

Um, good anchor and leverage.

Mears defensive line well with good hand usage.

Um, gap scheme sort of guy moves, uh, in terms of, uh, blocking with power,

struggles with balance and leverage and lateral blocks.

Um, needs better awareness finding second level defenders.

Those are just tiny knocks.

So that is certainly an option and he would be value here.

Before we pull the trigger on that striker, let's see why the receivers will

real quick.

I want to see how far down that road we are willing to go.

So, um, I got Colby Young's there, but I, he has some offield stuff.

He's a, he's a good player, but he's going to sort through that.

Other than that, I think I'm fine going with the depth with DJ Campbell.

And we haven't talked a lot about him or talked about him at all.

And I'm fine giving him some love because, um,

my con for him, luckily you haven't seen him.

So you can't say good or bad is James Daniels.

I mean, James Daniels has been a solid quality started, you know,

everywhere he's been really smart player.

So yeah, no, I'm, I'm not saying that as a slight to him.

I'm saying that because you can't, you can't counter yet.

So you have to go back and watch him and you can, you can weigh in.

All right, two seven round picks here.

You get the first one.

I'll take the second one.

It's, uh, Ricky used to call this the scouts day or whatever.

Uh, yeah, now it is.

This, this is where you said that previously too.

That's right.

Yeah, you turn around and ask him like, Hey, who do you love that you,

we won't have a chance to get, um, let me, can you go down a little bit more?

All right, you can go back up to the top of the list.

And let me look at this, this depth.

I think because I would love.

Riley, Noah Kowski, the football player, but there's just not a real need for him here.

You know what?

This is where you take a guy like Kobe Young, who's got talent, who's got issues.

But you, you roll the dice on him here in the seven.

So give me Kobe Young.

Yeah, he is a contested catch machine and he is, uh, very good above the realm.

Mixed up a little bit here.

All right, let's see who we got here.

We've already got, we've already got Thai Simpson.

I don't think we need to keep picking quarterbacks.

Keep scrolling.

Strike it.

Let's see what we can, we can scare up here.

Ta-da-da-da.

My guy saw you.

Robertson is still there.

Haynes King is still there.

All the quarterbacks are still in the board.

Keep going.

We got the guard.

So let's look.

Oh my gosh.

Here to do.

Let's do.

Give me wide receivers one more time because there's someone that I like.

We'll double down because you can never have enough guys there.

You know what?

I'm going to go Vinnie Anthony the second out of Wisconsin.

He is a reliable route runner.

He can play outside and then he can give you return ability.

He had a really good senior ball.

Super smart guy.

I got a chance to speak with him.

And he is a number four, number five with special team's ability.

And as you have to remind, as you have to remind me,

ran, as folks in the media, you can take a wide receiver late.

But the special team's coach is going to ask,

what's he going to do for me?

Correct?

Yep, exactly.

Oh, we got to take a picture of this.

Yeah, we've been going through these and getting a bunch of B pluses.

So we finally got to A.

So we, uh, the apple.

And they still have Beyonce Lawson.

But I figured I know they're formula now.

Okay.

I know that I know PFF's formula and their grade formula.

All right.

So he'll be available in later rounds is what I'm getting at.

All right.

That's it, Jets fans.

Give us a grade.

We got an A minus for PFF.

You can give us your own grade and tell us what you think.

What you like, what you didn't.

Well, you would have done differently based on the players

that were available when we made the picks that we did.

And of course, I'm sure we'll hear about Ty Simpson.

So I look forward to that as well.

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