{"id":29523,"date":"2025-05-06T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/29523\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:01:08","slug":"mason-taylor-says-he-was-surprised-he-was-drafted-by-the-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/29523\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Taylor says he was &#8216;surprised&#8217; he was drafted by the Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Jets<\/a> used their second-round pick at the 2025 NFL draft on LSU tight end Mason Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>It was a position of need for the team and head coach Aaron Glenn had a laundry list of reasons why New York took him off the board at <a href=\"https:\/\/jetswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jets\/2025\/04\/25\/2025-nfl-draft-jets-select-lsu-te-mason-taylor-at-no-42-overall\/83282889007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 42 overall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His versatility. Like he can do it all. He can block, he can be a receiving threat,&#8221; Glenn said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that, Taylor himself actually did not think New York was in his future.<\/p>\n<p>According to the player, he did not have a top-30 visit with the Jets and only met with them during the combine. But he is still fine and happy to be with the green and white.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s full explanation can be found in the clip below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets used their second-round pick at the 2025 NFL draft on LSU tight end Mason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[204,80,1603,19,7,226,206,1917,255,2321,2097,6,1602,1610,1604,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-29523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-draft","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jets","14":"tag-new","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-jets","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkjets","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-smg","21":"tag-smg-breaking-wire","22":"tag-wire","23":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114463381122982923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}