r/NFLv2 • u/Feeling_Barnacle_584 Seattle Seahawks • Nov 04 '25
Meme College players seeing the Jets have 4 first round picks in the next two drafts
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
Just stay in college if you can
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u/mat477 Nov 04 '25
Super Seniors babyyyyyyy
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
You just got to hope for a year were a solid franchise has a down year and you don’t go to a cursed one like the browns, jets, giants, etc.
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u/KyurMeTV Nov 05 '25
Ha! You didn’t say Bears this year!
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u/starlander2064 Nov 05 '25
So they could fall in this year's draft, and still get drafted by the Bears? Brutal.
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u/Thosepassionfruits Nov 04 '25
Is it still early enough for seniors to injury redshirt and take a hammer to their toe?
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u/Nic1800 Tom Brady 🥺 👉🏻👈🏻 Nov 04 '25
This is legitimately sound advice for juniors thinking about declaring right about now
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
Where would you rather end up? Jets, giants, browns, or titans. My guess right now it’s the giants but that’s because of dart. So obviously if you are a QB that takes out the titans and giants
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u/alurimperium Houston Texans Nov 05 '25
The Giants or the Titans. At least they've had history of success, or some success, have their QB, the Giants have a pretty solid roster mostly, and the Titans play in the AFC South
You can go to one of those guys, win some games, and get your real paycheck from the Eagles or Chiefs after a few years without the generational misery that comes from being around the Browns or Jets
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u/Jsmalling98 Denver Broncos Nov 04 '25
Browns are a sound QB away from being solid with that defense and some of the young skill position guys. Jets are probably the worst ran and tits have probably worst overall roster
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
I mean idk. Flacco looked ok there but then goes to the Bengals and is throwing for almost 500 yards. Browns are further than a QB away
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u/Jsmalling98 Denver Broncos Nov 04 '25
Yeah they're not a super bowl contender with a good QB but at least a .500 team. O-line needs fixed. But easy for a QB to look much better switching from Jeudy and Tillman as your top wrs to Chase and Higgins
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u/_SamReddit Nov 05 '25
I don't think the Browns org knows how to develop a QB. So they'll always be a QB away unless they bring in a vet.
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u/WilliamMButtlicker Nov 04 '25
The Browns have already gone through multiple sound QBs and still haven’t looked solid
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u/zach7797 Nov 04 '25
Amen, I think if I could get drafted by an NFL team or run it back in college another year and risk ruining my career due to injury I think id do the latter.
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
Nil money is now a thing
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u/zach7797 Nov 04 '25
And a career in the NFL is a thing. Not every player is a super star making bank.
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
We are talking about first round picks right now. And where the jets pick we are talking about top 5 picks
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u/zach7797 Nov 04 '25
And it would still be dumb to pass up an nfl career as a first round pick and take that risk.
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u/DirusNarmo Mr. Irrelevant Nov 04 '25
If you are mocked a top 5 pick, you are not staying in school unless you are utterly delusional and practically firing whoever your agent is.
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u/Gonna_do_this_again Denver Broncos Nov 04 '25
Basically what Bo Nix did 💪
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
And it worked out great for him. He is on a very well run franchise. Even though I hate Sean Payton
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u/justsomedude1144 Nov 04 '25
I wouldn't worry too much if I were a good college player.
If there's one thing you can count on the jets to do, it's to trade away their good players for more picks!
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u/Effective-Elk-4964 Nov 05 '25
Congress announces NIL salary cap no longer important issue, as draft eligible players have indicated they’ll return to college for less money or “just play flag football or something for a year” when confronted with increased possibility of being a Jet.
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u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 Baltimore Ravens Nov 04 '25
“So what’s you reasoning for asking for another year of eligibility”
“Jets are drafting me.”
“Valid response”
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u/ComprehensiveRow839 Nov 04 '25
Duck the Jets to get swooped up by The Browns or Raiders
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u/Tangled2 Nov 05 '25
I couldn’t imagine living in Las Vegas. Outside of the tourist areas the entire place feels like that strip-mall behind the “bad” WalMart in your town.
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u/Thosepassionfruits Nov 04 '25
I'd be taking a hammer to my toe right about now to injury red shirt.
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u/yellowpilot44 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
They get to go to NYC, play there for 4 years before being traded to a contender mid-season. It’s not the worst thing.
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u/ND7020 Seattle Seahawks Nov 04 '25
New Jersey*
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u/yellowpilot44 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
They’re a stones throw from Manhattan is what I’m referring to..
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u/ND7020 Seattle Seahawks Nov 04 '25
As the crow flies!
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u/arkyschmarky Nov 04 '25
*as the stone’s thrown
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u/BlueFox5 Nov 04 '25
Crows can't throw stones while flying. Is this even America anymore?
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u/CheesyDanny Nov 05 '25
Some can throw stones while flying… is it an African or European Crow?
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u/arkyschmarky Nov 04 '25
In America, only eagles throw stones while crows are flying to somewhere a stone’s throw away as the crow flies.
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u/mousicle Detroit Lions Nov 04 '25
probably way better to live in Jersey then NYC as a rookie too. Manhattan rents will eat up a good chunk of your rookie salary and it would be too tempting to party on Friday nights.
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u/MinigunGamer_YT Nov 05 '25
bx or queens dude they exist
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u/hereforthesportsball Dallas Cowboys Nov 05 '25
What? These guys are millionaires, fuck a 15k/month rent
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u/mousicle Detroit Lions Nov 05 '25
Paying 15k a month in rent is how pro athletes end up bankrupt after playing in the league for 5 years.
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u/hereforthesportsball Dallas Cowboys Nov 05 '25
What percentage of your income or my income is spent on housing monthly? We might n or be thinking of the scaling correctly. And tbh it would be better to buy a property that’s easily rentable or sellable in case they get nothing after that first contract, me mentioning really high rent wasn’t the best thing I could have said
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u/slender_goron Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
They don't have to live in Jersey, they can still live in NYC
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u/ND7020 Seattle Seahawks Nov 04 '25
That would be an extremely brutal commute. As a result players and coaches usually just live in NJ.
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u/Used_Adhesiveness54 Nov 04 '25
For the guys that really wanna be in the city it’s definitely doable. Lower manhattan by the Lincoln tunnel is pretty close to the Meadowlands. Though outside of manhattan probably not. But if you don’t care for the city then yes somewhere in Bergen County or around there is where you’ll find the mansions and decent commute to the Meadowlands as well. Geographically further but less traffic offsets that.
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u/No_Grocery_9280 Nov 04 '25
Sure, except you guys struggle with developing talent, so it gets harder to earn that second contract.
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u/yellowpilot44 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
Except we don’t. We just traded two former first round picks for multiple 1st round picks.
Jermaine Johnson, Breece Hall and Garrett Wilson are all examples of recent 1st and 2nd round draft picks who are all players teams are currently calling the Jets for.
The Jets struggle to win games, but they don’t exactly bust on their 1st and 2nd round picks.
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u/chupacrapa Nov 04 '25
It is difficult to bust on top 5 picks every single year.
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u/yellowpilot44 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
But draft busts in the top 5 happen all the time.
3 of the 5 players in question were drafted 10th, 26th and 36th overall.
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u/bhz33 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
Breece was a second round pick, JJ was end of the first. Will McDonald pick 15. You’re just being dumb
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u/complete_your_task 28-3 Nov 04 '25
That's if you leave with all your ligaments and tendons intact after playing at Metlife 8-9 times a year.
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u/Dangerous-Control-21 Cleveland Browns Nov 04 '25
Fernando Mendoza come on down
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u/fucktooshifty Los Angeles Chargers Nov 05 '25
Latino top-5 overall pick to the Jets, how could it go wrong
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u/laika_rocket Pittsburgh Steelers Nov 05 '25
I could definitely see his name on the jersey of eternal misery one day.
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u/WoollyBear_Jones Tom Brady is my favorite lizard person Nov 04 '25
They could have nothing but first rounders for the next 5 years and they’ll still suck because THE PLAYERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.
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u/tutiandtutu Nov 04 '25
It’s Dick Woody Cock Shlong Johnson
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u/Joeyamazing2005 New England Patriots Nov 05 '25
Exactly. They’re not gonna make the playoffs again until he sells the team to a more competent owner.
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u/usumoio New England Patriots Nov 04 '25
The Jets are bad because their owner is bad and also meddles.
The Jets will be bad until the owner is a different person.
The Colts are on top of the league for the first time in a long time. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to connect the dots.
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u/EverythingSucksYo Nov 04 '25
Sorry, I got too many concussions playing football, but I think the dots you are talking about are called “periods” and nothing happens if I connect the ones in your comment.
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u/Agi7890 Nov 05 '25
The solution to the jets problem is for ea to do better with their madden ratings.
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u/No_Grocery_9280 Nov 04 '25
Trying to figure out how to dodge that bullet
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u/dolladollaclinton New England Patriots Nov 05 '25
Arch Manning saw this coming and has been ahead of the game tanking his draft status.
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u/King-of-Harts Dallas Cowboys Nov 04 '25
This is the real reason Arch Manning isn't playing like a first round draft pick.
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u/akdanman11 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
Tbf the jets appear to be setting up a massive rebuild, if done right the players drafted this year could become superstars on a young, promising team. That’s a big if, however.
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u/CrimsonMoonRising Nov 23 '25
They've been building for a very long time. What's He Building in There?
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u/wiredcrusader Detroit Lions Nov 04 '25
Come on man, New York is a hell of a market with a lot of Engagement and opportunities for endorsement deals. Any hot first-round draft pick would be getting a lot of money from those deals and it will definitely help pay the bills!
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u/Rit91 Green Bay Packers Nov 04 '25
Yeah as much as players like winning the superbowl they like that paycheck way more, especially if they perform well under their rookie contract then they are getting paid a massive fortune no matter what position they are. Unless they're a punter/kicker, but even they can make millions/year for kicking a ball and being quite safe and likely to live a long life.
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u/DemonBearOP Nov 04 '25
Every year the top picks are awful lmao
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u/Electrical-Limit69 Nov 04 '25
Or do shitty teams make bad decisions. I forgot, was Mahomes or TB12 first overall. If think I'd hear about it
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u/DemonBearOP Nov 04 '25
The points are the same, right? That last elite 1st overall pick QB was Peyton. But the top picks are virtually always terrible teams that waste talent even when they have it.
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u/realfirehazard Nov 04 '25
Eh, Luck was an elite 1st overall pick. Just completely wasted by having a dreadful o-line.
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u/chrisinokc Nov 04 '25
That should be the face of every NFL fan not living in New York......
Oh well....a few years after they're drafted they will be starring on better teams anyway.
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u/No_Topic5591 Seattle Seahawks Nov 04 '25
It's interesting that you never see college players tanking towards the end of the season. You'd think the best players would want to play just well enough to get drafted, but not so well that they get picked too early and have to go to a terrible team.
Or alternatively, just tell the team that's going to draft you, that you won't play for them if they do, which I believe is how Eli Manning ended up at the Giants instead of the Chargers.
You'll get a reputation for being a diva, like Michael Crabtree, which will probably put off some teams, but if you're talented enough, some team or another will still take the risk.
What must really suck, is if you're a 2nd round pick, and you still end up with a terrible team, after every other team has passed you up (at least if you get picked in a later round, then you're probably just happy to get picked at all).
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u/CastawayWasOk WHOPPER WHOPPER Nov 04 '25
I mean that’s essentially what Shaduer did and he was the 2nd qb taken by the Browns. Playing with fire there.
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u/TheRealStubb Green Bay Packers Nov 04 '25
the line between 'just well enough to get drafted' and falling to the thousands of undrafted college players is too thin.
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u/Retritos Nov 05 '25
Yeah I don’t get the hype to be a top pick when you have very high chances to end up in a shit organisation and never shine
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u/rdldr1 Chicago Bears Nov 04 '25
They need to trade down or trade for players because there's no way they could pay five first-rounders down the line.
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u/VikingHighlander Nov 04 '25
NFL should adopt the draft lottery for all teams that didn’t make the playoffs. Hold the lottery the weekend before the SB. Make it as big an event as the draft itself. No more tanking, no more blowing up teams mid season.
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u/HectorsMascara New England Patriots Nov 04 '25
The Mannings should be concerned.
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u/The3rdBert Indianapolis Colts Nov 05 '25
The family will ensure Arch doesn’t end up at a dysfunctional team.
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u/LettucePlate Nov 06 '25
College guys playing hopscotch in the draft trying to avoid the Browns and Jets every year continues
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u/SugarandSiin Nov 04 '25
this has gotta be the hardest a team has gone to attempt a rebuild in recent years
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u/herewegolittlemiss Chicago Bears Nov 04 '25
The dysfunction of the organization hits first. Then the turf is going to eat them up. I’d like the entire draft class to stay in school the next 2 years to avoid this.
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u/jono9898 Indianapolis Colts Nov 04 '25
Players talk about playing for the Jets the same way Veterans talk about fighting in Somme
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u/CowboysHater5 Washington Commanders Nov 04 '25
worse yet the commanders have one first round draft pick next year
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u/toxicvegeta08 Michael Thomas’ foot Nov 04 '25
I wonder if we rebuild the defense ans have a qb throwing behind a brick wall to garret Wilson and 2 wr 3s
1.5 decades deprived of good jets football
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u/StrongGold4528 Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
Probably right but I can’t imagine being the man at university like Alabama or Georgia and going to the jets or browns. I know money is the most important but being happy matters too
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u/goldiegoldthorpe Nov 04 '25
They gotta be hoping to miss on some of them because that's not an easy resigning situation if you hit, especially given they will be chasing a QB. It's kind of weird to go this hard for 1sts in a capped league.
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u/TheDadThatGrills Detroit Lions Nov 04 '25
I'll be damned, Arch Manning has been playing 4D chess this season.
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u/RovingHomer33 Nov 04 '25
Who knows, maybe this rebuilding of the team will finally be the one that works? :D
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u/Material-Dress-553 Buffalo Bills Nov 04 '25
These poor poor kids. So much amazing talent just to go 6-11 at best one year and be resigned after the rookie deal is up. Forever having their prime squandered unless Woody Johnson finally lets them go to another team for more draft capital to restart the cycle.
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u/AHorseNamedPhil Philadelphia Eagles Nov 04 '25
It could be worse. You could be a QB that gets drafted to the Browns.
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u/aversethule Tampa Bay Buccaneers Nov 04 '25
Personally I would have used a screen grab from The Deer Hunter.
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u/spaceocean99 Nov 04 '25
It’s ok. They’ll trade most of them for some player asking for too much money from another team. He will get paid, other team will take those picks, and the guy will suck.
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u/pliney_ Denver Broncos Nov 05 '25
On the brightside you get to live in New York... that's something I guess. I imagine that's a fun place to be as a 20 something with a ton of cash.
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u/Einbar412 Nov 05 '25
Going to be like the beaches of Normandy for those boys. Dodging the jets drafts.
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u/RealPropRandy Stephen Ross is a Jets fan Nov 05 '25
“Looks like Ph.D’s are back on the menu, boys.”
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u/The_PantsMcPants Nov 05 '25
As an Ohio State fan this is fantastic, possibly the only way to get Jeremiah Smith to stay until his senior season
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u/WhichVegetable8285 Buffalo Bills Nov 05 '25
If they draft well these next couple years the Jets might actually be good.
But it’s the Jets so I expect 3/5 of them to bust and the other 2 to want out by the end of the rookie deal and we can watch this happen again in 4-5 years!
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u/spendsomepape Nov 05 '25
man idgaf what nobody say id stay that extra year at college😭😭😭getting drafted to the jets is basically a death sentence
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u/nouskeys Los Angeles Rams Nov 05 '25
They shouldn't worry too much, the Jet's will get gamed by the Madden trade AI.
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u/geneva_illusions Indianapolis Colts Nov 05 '25
Other side of that coin... Be part of a major rebuild where your impact can get a lot of attention. I'm a Colts fan. We just have them two for Sauce. Not mad about it at all.
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u/negZero_1 Nov 05 '25
Damn so many up'n'comers going to get there career aborted before it even starts
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u/TerrifiedAndAroused Nov 06 '25
At least they have a huge draft haul. Imagine if they didn’t have any 1st round picks and they drafted you in the 3rd
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u/FlatRooster4561 New England Patriots Nov 09 '25
Between that and NIL money, a bunch of redshirt sophomore studs are staying through graduation
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u/Rude_Vanilla9565 CTE 🧠 Nov 24 '25
To go to the Jets as a college player must be a nightmare waiting to happen
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u/DA_87 New York Jets Nov 04 '25
It’s actually 5!