{"id":872405,"date":"2026-04-23T03:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:33:22","slug":"jets-should-take-david-bailey-with-no-2-pick-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872405\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets should take David Bailey with No. 2 pick in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate has raged for months as the college football season played itself out, and it has intensified in its passion as Thursday night\u2019s NFL draft drew closer.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re here. The draft\u2019s first round has arrived. Thursday night, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/22\/sports\/jets-chance-to-jump-start-rebuild-in-nfl-draft-is-finally-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the No. 2 overall pick, are on the clock<\/a> as soon as the Raiders hand in the least-anticipated draft card in memory and make it official they\u2019re taking Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza at No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets, unless they\u2019re operating the heaviest smokescreen sting in NFL history, are going to draft the top edge rusher on their board. Their pass rush was ranked 31st in the NFL last season with just 26 sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate has raged for months as the college football season played itself out, and it has intensified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,15,15729,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-872405","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","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116451921391926590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872405","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=872405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}