{"id":853341,"date":"2026-04-04T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:39:18","slug":"what-jets-might-do-at-quarterback-in-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/853341\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jets might do at quarterback in 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Glenn <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/sports\/what-aaron-glenns-promised-land-quote-says-about-him-his-jets-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw his full-throated support behind Geno Smith<\/a>, saying the quarterback can take the Jets to the \u201cpromised land.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So, there\u2019s no reason to think the team is in the market for a starting quarterback in this year\u2019s draft. <\/p>\n<p>That likely will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/28\/sports\/how-jets-can-navigate-their-qb-conundrum-with-2027-draft-options-one-year-away\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wait until 2027<\/a>, when the Jets have three first-round picks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38990628\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/crop-38896402.jpg\" alt=\"Jets general manager Darren Mougey speaks at the NFL Scouting Combine at the Indiana Convention Center.\" class=\"wp-image-38990628\"  \/>Jets general manager Darren Mougey speaks at the NFL Scouting Combine at the Indiana Convention Center.  IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>The question becomes whether they decided to take a quarterback in the second round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Glenn threw his full-throated support behind Geno Smith, saying the quarterback can take the Jets to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1507,255,6,15,15729,9,3248,20708],"class_list":{"0":"post-853341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-geno-smith","10":"tag-new-york-jets","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-ty-simpson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116346957550965121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853341","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=853341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}