{"id":896384,"date":"2026-05-20T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896384\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:15","slug":"should-the-ny-jets-pursue-a-trade-for-broncos-wr-marvin-mims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/896384\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the NY Jets pursue a trade for Broncos WR Marvin Mims?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Jets enjoyed an active offseason between free agency, trades, and the NFL draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the work doesn\u2019t have to stop now. It can\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n

Despite everything they\u2019ve done, the Jets still aren\u2019t close to being considered a championship-caliber team, or even a playoff-caliber one. They are coming off a three-win season in which they were outscored by 203 points. After trading two of their best players in-season, they proceeded to have the worst month of December in NFL history<\/a> (-107 point differential).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a colossal hole to dig out of.<\/p>\n

This team has a long, long, long way to go, which means they must stay vigilant toward improving the roster for 365 days a year.<\/p>\n

As we creep toward the end of May, that means the Jets\u2019 current task is to keep their eyes peeled for opportunities to strike on the trade market.<\/p>\n

Could they find a steal out of the Mile High City?<\/p>\n

Marvin Mims to the Jets?<\/p>\n

There are plenty of trade candidates around the NFL heading into training camp. One of them plays a position that is arguably still the Jets\u2019 greatest position of need outside of quarterback: wide receiver.<\/p>\n

That man would be Marvin Mims, Denver\u2019s 2023 second-round pick.<\/p>\n

Mims, 24, hasn\u2019t quite lived up to his second-round potential. In three seasons (48 games, 13 starts), Mims has caught 98 of 136 targets (72.1%) for 1,202 yards and eight touchdowns, adding 34 carries for 150 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma product is entering a contract year. Combined with his lackluster production and the Broncos\u2019 offseason acquisition of star wideout Jaylen Waddle, Mims is likely to be buried on Denver\u2019s depth chart. With Waddle, Courtland Sutton, and Troy Franklin ahead of him, Mims is poised to be the Broncos\u2019 WR4 at best, and that\u2019s if he can outperform Pat Bryant and Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey in camp.<\/p>\n

All of those factors make Mims an ideal trade candidate. The Broncos would likely prefer to turn Mims into future draft compensation instead of keeping him as a backup and potentially letting him walk for nothing. Meanwhile, other teams around the NFL could be intrigued enough by Mims\u2019 potential to give up a pick that Denver would be willing to accept.<\/p>\n

The Jets could be one of those teams.<\/p>\n

After a season in which no player on their roster ranked among the NFL\u2019s top 100 players in receiving yards, the Jets had a glaring need at wide receiver going into the offseason. Ultimately, they didn\u2019t do much about it.<\/p>\n

New York entered the NFL draft<\/a> without making a single noteworthy addition at the position. They ended up trading back into the first round to select Indiana\u2019s Omar Cooper Jr.<\/a> with the 30th overall pick, which is a big-time pickup for the long haul. But Cooper is a rookie, so the Jets should keep their expectations in check for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Not to mention, even with the Cooper addition, the depth chart<\/a> is still extremely thin. The next man up, by a wide margin over the players behind him, is the speedy but erratic Adonai Mitchell<\/a>, who has been extremely drop-prone in his career (15.2% drop rate) and saw the Colts give up on him in his second season despite being a second-round pick.<\/p>\n

New York recently signed veteran wideout Tim Patrick, but Patrick is 32 years old and only caught 15 passes in 16 games last year, so he hardly solves anything.<\/p>\n

The Jets are looking at a Week 1 wide receiver depth chart that looks like this:<\/p>\n

Garrett Wilson<\/p>\n

Omar Cooper Jr.<\/p>\n

Adonai Mitchell<\/p>\n

Tim Patrick<\/p>\n

Isaiah Williams<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still one of the worst groups in the NFL. The hope is that Cooper can eventually become the WR2 that New York has lacked, and the Jets would love for it to happen immediately (and it could!), but his odds of being that player as a rookie are low.<\/p>\n

If Cooper has a typical rookie season, the Jets\u2019 wide receiver unit will be essentially unchanged from 2025. That would likely sink the offense and lead to another season that is over well before Halloween.<\/p>\n

Mims\u2019 ceiling would be much-welcomed in this room. While he isn\u2019t proven enough to be a surefire solution, he would give the Jets a third high-ceiling lottery ticket between himself, Cooper, and Mitchell, yielding decent odds that at least one player steps up as a reliable WR2 in 2026.<\/p>\n

Sure, things have not quite worked out for Mims in Denver. But his ceiling could be in front of him. As a player who entered the league at 21, he\u2019ll still be just 24 throughout the 2026 season despite being in his fourth year.<\/p>\n

What makes Mims intriguing is the production he\u2019s delivered per target. He has been unable to maintain high-volume production for Denver\u2014never earning the necessary snaps or targets to do so\u2014but when they\u2019ve thrown the ball his way, he\u2019s delivered positive results.<\/p>\n

Mims has caught 72.1% of his career targets for 12.3 yards per reception. That gives him an average of 8.8 yards per target, which ranks 24th among the 110 wide receivers with at least 100 targets since 2023.<\/p>\n

This is a product of Mims\u2019 excellent work as a deep threat. Of his 1,202 career receiving yards, 526 of them (43.8%) came on deep receptions (20+ air yards), along with five of his eight receiving touchdowns. He needs to become far more productive in the short and intermediate areas if he wants to be an NFL starter, but we know that he can definitely take the top off the defense.<\/p>\n

This is the type of field-stretching that New York\u2019s offense lacks. The current hope is that Cooper or Mitchell can provide it, but both players are projections at this point. Mims, at the very least, has proven that he can stretch the field, even if other parts of his game are a work in progress.<\/p>\n

Another positive trait in Mims\u2019 game is his hands. He\u2019s been credited with just four drops in his career, per Pro Football Focus, giving him a 3.9% drop rate. That\u2019s about a quarter of Mitchell\u2019s career rate (15.2%) and slightly lower than Cooper\u2019s career rate against college competition (4.2%).<\/p>\n

On top of his receiving production, Mims is an elite returner, earning two All-Pro nods for his efforts on special teams. He leads the NFL with 15.8 yards per punt return over the last three seasons, and he can return kickoffs as well.<\/p>\n

New York doesn\u2019t have an immediate need for a returner, as they have two returners who earned All-Pro votes last season, Isaiah Williams and Kene Nwangwu. However, neither of those players offers much value beyond returning, so it could be appealing for the Jets to land a player who is equally dominant in the return game while also contributing offensively. That\u2019s smart roster construction.<\/p>\n

The Jets are equipped with 10 picks in the 2027 NFL draft. They have their own fourth-round pick, their own fifth-round pick, and three sixth-round picks.<\/p>\n

It would be worthwhile to give the Broncos a call and see if they\u2019d be willing to part with Mims for a sixth-round pick. A fifth-round pick may even be worth the shot if New York is particularly fond of Mims\u2019 fit in their offensive scheme.<\/p>\n

Jets general manager Darren Mougey has generally done a great job with pick-for-player trades thus far. His 2025 deals for Harrison Phillips and Jowon Briggs were successful.<\/p>\n

The Briggs move is particularly relevant here. Mougey bought low on a talented player who was buried within a stacked unit in Cleveland, and once he got an expanded role in New York, his production exploded.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is Mougey\u2019s opportunity to execute the offensive equivalent of the Briggs deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Jets enjoyed an active offseason between free agency, trades, and the NFL draft. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[16518,232,1469,231,258,2426,7,3228,27091,5615,255,6,6531,3233,13786,61529,3234,1164],"class_list":["post-896384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-adonai-mitchell","tag-broncos","tag-darren-mougey","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-free-content","tag-isaiah-williams","tag-kene-nwangwu","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-ny-jets-column","tag-ny-jets-rumors-transactions","tag-ny-jets-trades","tag-omar-cooper-jr","tag-standard","tag-tim-patrick"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116606997843923776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896384","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=896384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}