Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\nIf they stay in the second spot, they will want to get an impact player, be it on offense or defense.<\/p>\n
Right now, it’s a three-horse race with the oddsmakers on who the Jets will take second in two months.<\/p>\n
The leader in the clubhouse is Ohio State linebacker Arvell Reese, who had 70 tackles for the Buckeyes last season and was a talisman in the middle of the defense for one of the best teams in college football.<\/p>\n
If the Jets want some strength on the edge, they could grab Miami Hurricanes juggernaut Rueben Bain Jr., who was a monster on their run to the national title game. While he wasn’t at his best against the Indiana Hoosiers, he is the type of EDGE that can transform a defense instantly if he brings what he showed in college.<\/p>\n
Finally, there’s Texas Tech’s David Bailey, another defensive end, but he took a different path than the Hurricanes EDGE.<\/p>\n
While Reuben Bain Jr. was a top-five prospect from the start of the season, Bailey rose from a middle-to-late first-round selection to being looked at as a surefire top-five pick in most mocks.<\/p>\n
While they could go for the wide receiver of their choice, the wideout depth in the 2026 NFL Draft is so outstanding that they should get a potential superstar with their 16th pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 23, 2026, 6:44 p.m. ET New York Jets fans thought that Dante Moore was likely their new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[95878,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,99115,99116,95882,95930,99118,99117,96747,95888,96683,95895,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-772688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfltouchdown","17":"tag-sstsntouchdown","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","20":"tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers","21":"tag-tagnebraska-cornhuskers-football","22":"tag-tagnew-york-jets","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-draft","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116124431697047286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772688","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=772688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}