{"id":865819,"date":"2026-04-13T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865819\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:30:24","slug":"what-jets-might-do-at-safety-in-the-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865819\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jets might do at safety in the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets added Minkah Fitzpatrick and Dane Belton during free agency, but I don\u2019t think that will stop them from drafting another safety. <\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t take Caleb Downs at No. 2 overall, but what if he starts sliding? Would the Jets move up from 16 to take him? <\/p>\n<p>He might <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/26\/sports\/caleb-downs-a-tantalizing-if-unlikely-giants-possibility\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">be too tempting<\/a> to pass up.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39076482\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/toledos-emmanuel-mcneil-warren-catches-124279837_1e453f.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuel McNeil-Warren catches a pass at Toledo's NFL football pro day.\" class=\"wp-image-39076482\"  \/><br \/>\nToledo\u2019s Emmanuel McNeil-Warren catches a pass during the school\u2019s NFL football pro day. AP<\/p>\n<p>If they stay put, Oregon\u2019s Dillon Thieneman and Toledo\u2019s Emmanuel McNeil-Warren are the next safeties projected to be taken. <\/p>\n<p>They could be targets at 16 or 33. A.J. Haulcy of LSU is another potential pick at 44. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Jets drafted Malachi Moore a year ago and he\u2019s in the mix at safety, but it won\u2019t be surprising if the Jets use an early pick on a safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets added Minkah Fitzpatrick and Dane Belton during free agency, but I don\u2019t think that will stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,15729,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-865819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkjets","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-draft","16":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116400006268188526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865819","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=865819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}