It looks like each quarterback the New York Jets purchase turns right into a bust.
Since 2000, the Jets have taken seven quarterbacks in both the primary or second spherical.
Chad Pennington, the 18th decide in 2000, might be the most effective of the bunch that additionally included Mark Sanchez, Kellen Clemens, Geno Smith, Christian Hackenberg, Sam Darnold, and Zach Wilson.
Even the four-time MVP they traded for, Aaron Rodgers, ruptured an Achilles on simply his fourth play in a Jets uniform.
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Christian Hackenberg of the New York Jets warms up earlier than a sport towards the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium Dec. 31, 2017, in Foxboro, Mass. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Pictures)
A kind of seven QBs says the Jets had “no plan” when he was with the crew.
The Jets surprisingly chosen Hackenberg with the 51st decide of the 2016 NFL Draft, though they’d Smith and Ryan Fitzpatrick, who grew to become the franchise’s first quarterback to throw 30 landing passes months earlier.
As extremely touted as he was out of Penn State, the Jets’ collection of Hackenberg did not appear to make sense, and Hackenberg appears to agree.
New York Jets quarterback Christian Hackenberg throughout a preseason sport towards the Philadelphia Eagles Aug. 31, 2017, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Wealthy Graessle/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
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“New York was in all probability the final place I ought to’ve gone, by way of the market, the expectations, the best way it was,” Hackenberg told the “Ross Tucker Football Podcast” Wednesday. “In my rookie 12 months, we ended up preserving 4 quarterbacks (Smith, Fitzpatrick and 2015 fourth-rounder Bryce Petty). So there was simply not a whole lot of alternative for me to develop and develop.
“No plan, form of an up-and-down group. And I believe it was simply a kind of issues the place the timing and the place it ended up simply wasn’t within the playing cards for me at that place.”
Hackenberg by no means performed in a regular-season sport for the Jets — or within the NFL, interval — and was traded for a seventh-round decide in 2018.
Hackenberg was the most effective quarterback of his highschool class and threw for practically 9,000 yards in his three seasons at Penn State, however he by no means lived as much as the hype or draft inventory.
Trying again, Hackenberg appeared to confess he wasn’t fairly prepared.
Quarterback Christian Hackenberg of the New York Jets calls a play towards the New York Giants throughout a preseason sport Aug. 26, 2017, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. (Al Pereira/Getty Pictures)
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“There’s so many circumstances that go into it. And once I got here out, I nonetheless knew that I wanted loads that I wanted to get higher at,” Hackenberg stated. “However, on the identical token, I additionally had all these expectations and the narrative on the market that this child was going to be good. It was simply this actually form of battle internally after which externally with messaging and the way issues have been being portrayed that I needed to take care of.”
The Jets have not made the playoffs since 2010.
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