Jarrett Stidham is viewed as one of the top backups in the NFL and has spent the past three seasons with the Denver Broncos. He most recently started the AFC Championship Game for the Broncos after starting quarterback Bo Nix suffered a broken ankle in the final plays of their Divisional Round victory over the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n
After a nice start that included a deep pass to Marvin Mims and then a touchdown pass to Courtland Sutton, the wheels came off for Stidham and the Broncos\u2019 offense. On top of that, the blizzard in the second half made offense basically impossible, so he was dealt a rough hand. Short week to prepare for the biggest start of his career, and then having to play in a blizzard.<\/p>\n
Now, Stidham enters the final year of his contract with the Broncos and may have some value around the league, and his value might be amplified due to the weak quarterback market. Fernando Mendoza is going to be a Raider, but after that, there is not much out there. The Dolphins are expected to release Tua, the Cardinals are expected to release Kyler Murray, and veterans like Kirk Cousins, Joe Flacco, and others are also expected to be available. The report indicates the Jets don\u2019t plan on being in the big-money QB market, so that removes them from the Daniel Jones and Malik Willis market. So, a name like Stidham, who is cost-effective and has ties to the General Manager, makes sense for the Jets.<\/p>\n
Stidham would give the Jets a high-level backup who would be good for that locker room at the very least, while also giving them a quarterback who could play if given the starting job. However, would the Broncos even entertain this?<\/p>\n
As we noted, starting quarterback Bo Nix is coming off a broken ankle. Trading away your veteran backup, who knows your system well and has the trust of the coaching staff, would be risky. You would have to think the Broncos would want a good return to even entertain trading away Stidham. His value to the team this season will likely be more than a late-day 3 selection, so I would expect the Jets would need to overpay a tad bit if they want to get this hypothetical deal done.<\/p>\n
This might all be speculation, but with a weak quarterback market, the Broncos could have teams calling about Jarrett Stidham\u2019s availability, and if the price is right, I could see them listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarrett Stidham is viewed as one of the top backups in the NFL and has spent the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1151,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-788909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-denver-broncos-news","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116165082407040535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788909","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=788909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}