{"id":860719,"date":"2026-04-08T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860719\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:52:15","slug":"the-thinking-behind-jets-unconventional-draft-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860719\/","title":{"rendered":"The thinking behind Jets&#8217; unconventional draft approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Payton is one of Aaron Glenn\u2019s mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn both played and coached for Payton and they both share roots as part of Bill Parcells\u2019 coaching tree. So, Glenn tends to draw on lessons he learned from the Broncos current head coach. One of those is not to get caught up in positional value when it comes to the NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned this really with Sean Payton. Man, you\u2019ve got to shut out the outside noise,\u201d Glenn said last week at the NFL\u2019s annual league meeting. \u201cWho do you love? If you love the player, go get the player. I truly believe in that. If you love the player, go get him regardless of what everybody thinks, regardless of positional value. If you love the player, go and get him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean the Jets would buck conventional wisdom at No. 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/06\/sports\/what-jets-might-do-at-running-back-in-2026-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take a player who plays a position not considered premium<\/a>? The Jets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/sports\/league-meetings-offer-insight-in-to-jets-critical-draft-offseason-plans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">met with Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love<\/a> when they attended his pro day a few weeks ago, taking him to breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Payton is one of Aaron Glenn\u2019s mentors. Glenn both played and coached for Payton and they both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2051],"tags":[1585,7,7198,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,15729,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-860719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-aaron-glenn","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-inside-the-jets","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-draft","18":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116368714213755525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860719","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=860719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}