{"id":860495,"date":"2026-04-08T07:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:51:29","slug":"report-suggests-jets-preferred-pick-for-no-2-at-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860495\/","title":{"rendered":"Report suggests Jets&#8217; preferred pick for No. 2 at 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 2026, 2:43 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The No. 2 pick held by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Jets<\/a> at the 2026 NFL draft is still up in the air. There is no prospect considered a &#8220;lock&#8221; to be taken by the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, many think the selection could either be linebacker Arvell Reese from Ohio State or Texas Tech edge defender David Bailey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A conversation on ESPN between analyst Peter Schrager and NFL Network&#8217;s draft guru Daniel Jeremiah in a roundtable debated which of the two the Jets would prefer. According to their reports, it&#8217;s Bailey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The report can be found in the clip below:<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 7, 2026, 2:43 p.m. ET The No. 2 pick held by the New York Jets at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[95878,7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,97197,97198,97116,95882,95930,95892,95896,96747,95888,95897,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-860495","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-sstssportsnfljets","17":"tag-sstsnjets","18":"tag-tag2026-nfl-draft","19":"tag-tagamerican-football","20":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","21":"tag-tagespn-inc","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnew-york-jets","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagoverall-negative","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116368001172524880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860495","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=860495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}