{"id":760573,"date":"2026-02-18T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760573\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:28:18","slug":"why-jets-shouldnt-draft-a-qb-early-and-who-they-should-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760573\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jets shouldn&#8217;t draft a QB early \u2014 and who they should target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Scouting Combine is next week, which is when NFL draft season really cranks up.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/14\/sports\/2026-nfl-mock-draft-2-0-jets-pass-on-qb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fascinating draft for the Jets<\/a>, who have four picks in the top 44. So, it felt like a good time to check in with ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller, who is part of their new show, \u201cNFL Draft Daily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller recently mocked Ohio State edge\/linebacker Arvell Reese to the Jets at No. 2 and USC wide receiver Makai Lemon to them at No. 16. We caught up with Miller last week to get his thoughts on the Jets and what they might \u2014 or should \u2014 do.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the questions we asked and his answers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL Scouting Combine is next week, which is when NFL draft season really cranks up. This will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,7198,49,48,255,6,15729,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-760573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-inside-the-jets","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","15":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116092346172691671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760573","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=760573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}