The New York Jets can't mess this up.
NFL analyst Garrett Podell of CBS Sports believes the New York Jets drafting a top QB in the 2027 draft is the key to preventing WR Garrett Wilson from requesting a trade.
Wilson possesses two more seasons of guaranteed money on his four-year, $130 million contract, including $24.5 million guaranteed in the 2027 season. That gives New York two more offseasons to get the quarterback position right.
Wilson appeared in only seven games last season because of injuries. He recorded 36 catches for 395 receiving yards and four receiving touchdowns.
A Chicago native, Wilson has played in 58 games with the Jets. He has 315 catches for 3,644 receiving yards and 18 receiving touchdowns.
Wilson is actually excited to catch passes from Geno Smith next season. After the Jets acquired Smith from the Las Vegas Raiders, Wilson "immediately" called Seattle Seahawks superstar Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Smith-Njigba and Smith were teammates in Seattle.
"Yeah man, when I heard we signed Geno, initially for me it was like I immediately hit up my dawg Jax, who had played with him for two years out in Seattle," Wilson said on the Jets' official podcast, via Heavy Sports. "He had a lot of good insight. He just loved Geno, he spoke so highly of him.
"All of a sudden, I'm pumped, I'm excited, and then once I got to meet the guy, which would have been a month ago now, mid-April, I had constructed this view of him in my head and how he was going to be. It was cool, right? I couldn't wait to meet him based on what I had constructed in my head. Then I met him and he just blew that out of the water."
Smith's best seasons in the NFL came with the Seahawks in 2022 and 2023. He made the Pro Bowl in 2022 and 2023 and won the 2022 AP Comeback Player of the Year Award.
Smith enters next season with 22,168 passing yards, 124 passing touchdowns and 89 career interceptions in the NFL. His starting record is 42-56-0.
The Jets went 3-14 last season. Let's see how they do in Year 2 of the Aaron Glenn era.
Even though Wilson is high on Smith, New York is better suited to have a bad record again in 2026, so the franchise gets a top pick in the 2027 draft.
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