{"id":8503,"date":"2025-04-29T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8503\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:55:10","slug":"ny-jets-wr-arian-smith-is-ready-to-attack-his-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/8503\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Jets WR Arian Smith is ready to attack his weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REPORTING LIVE FROM FLORHAM PARK\u2014It\u2019s not hard to see why the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetsxfactor.com\/2025\/04\/26\/the-jets-draft-georgia-wr-arian-smith-110th-overall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets are enamored<\/a> with Georgia wide receiver Arian Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Running a blazing 4.36-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine\u2014the fourth best at the position and tied for 10th overall\u2014Smith was one of the fastest receivers coming out of the 2025 draft class. He led the Bulldogs in receiving yards last year and comes to a Jets team in desperate need of a burner on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one fatal flaw to Smith\u2019s game, though. <\/p>\n<p>The good news is encouraging: He already understands the deal and is ready to improve. <\/p>\n<p>Arian Smith talks Jets\u2019 draft selection<\/p>\n<p>As fast as Smith is, he has a key problem in hanging onto the ball. Smith led Power Four schools in drops last season with 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something I need to improve on,\u201d Smith told reporters after being drafted by the team. \u201cDrops are going to happen, but I need to do a better job of eliminating them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drops are a problem for most receivers who are taken in the fourth round of the draft. Many of those players cannot make much of an impact right away.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that Smith is a high-character guy. Former Super Bowl-winning coach Jon Gruden called Smith his sleeper of this year\u2019s draft. That speed alone is worth a flyer.<\/p>\n<p>And now he\u2019s a member of the Jets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told me they see something special in me,\u201d Smith said of the Jets taking him. The Georgia product previously met with the team during the pre-draft process. <\/p>\n<p>Smith is 6-foot-flat and just 170 pounds. He\u2019ll need to get bigger to make an impact on the Jets this season. It\u2019s easy to see how there\u2019s a path to allowing that to happen, though.<\/p>\n<p>Smith joins a receiver room in New York led by standout <a href=\"https:\/\/jetsxfactor.com\/team\/garrett-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Wilson<\/a>. There are a plethora of secondary options, including veterans Allen Lazard, Josh Reynolds, Tyler Johnson, and Malachi Corley.<\/p>\n<p>From a pure intangibles standpoint, his blazing speed makes him an intriguing prospect.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why the Jets took a flyer on him with the 110th overall pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REPORTING LIVE FROM FLORHAM PARK\u2014It\u2019s not hard to see why the New York Jets are enamored with Georgia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1945,198,7,3228,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,1967,3231,3916,3234],"class_list":{"0":"post-8503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-arian-smith","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-free-content","12":"tag-jets","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-scouting-combine","20":"tag-ny-jets-news","21":"tag-ny-jets-players","22":"tag-standard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114418766697626969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503","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=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}