Wednesday night marks Christmas Eve, but for New York Jets fans, the real chaos comes with the Powerball drawing.
Miami Dolphins beat reporter Chris Perkins was making the rounds with a fun question: What would already well-paid NFL players do if they won the Powerball?
Former Jets No. 2 overall pick and current Dolphins backup QB Zach Wilson delivered a hilarious answer.
“Maybe buy the New York Jets,” Wilson responded.
Ah, Zach. Still finding ways to mess with the Jets more than two years after his exit.
After being selected No. 2 overall in the 2021 NFL draft, Wilson’s time with the Jets unraveled as badly as it could have. Over three seasons in New York, he went 12-21 as a starter, completing just 57% of his passes with 23 touchdowns against 25 interceptions and a brutal 73.2 passer rating, before being traded to the Denver Broncos in April 2024 in exchange for a late-round pick swap.
To be fair, he probably needed something to laugh about. His own situation took another hit last week, when the Dolphins benched veteran Tua Tagovailoa and still passed over him on the depth chart, turning instead to seventh-round rookie Quinn Ewers as QB3 on the depth chart.
Despite signing him to a one-year, fully guaranteed $6 million deal this offseason, Miami’s coaching staff opted to hand the offense to a seventh-round rookie rather than give Wilson a three-game opportunity to show he could handle the job. It wasn’t exactly a vote of confidence.
Fortunately for Jets fans, there’s no real cause for panic. According to Forbes, the franchise is valued at more than $8 billion, meaning that even if the former BYU quarterback somehow hit the Powerball jackpot, the Jets wouldn’t be changing ownership anytime soon.
So Jets fans can sleep easy this Christmas Eve, the Powerball odds remain better than Zach Wilson ever purchasing the team that once drafted him.