Pro Football Focus Rates Best and Worst Jets Draft Picks

Pro Football Focus listed its favorite and least favorite pick of every NFL team. Here is what they had for the Jets.

New York Jets

Best: Charone Peake, WR, Clemson (Rd. 7, No. 241)

Truthfully we weren’t even that high on Peake, but the Jets draft didn’t feature too many players high on our board.

Worst: Christian Hackenberg, QB, Penn State (Rd. 2, No. 51)

Our undraftable grade on Hackenberg is no secret. First-rounder Darron Lee was a runner-up here.

I think there tends to be a lot of consensus about the first round or two. There might be a difference of opinion on a player or two, but most analysts have the same players going at the same points. Once we get to the third round, valuations on prospects vary wildly. A player might have a third round grade from one analyst and a seventh round grade from other. The teams themselves ultimately had a seventh round grade on Peake. Some analysts had him as a day two pick, though, which is naturally going to excite people. I think for his skillset, Peake was worth throwing a seventh round pick at.

I think many people would also say Hackenberg was their least favorite pick, although PFF is out on a limb calling him undraftable.

Of course, none of this really matters. Draft grades immediately after a pick are just guesses. Even if they were not, PFF does not have a big Draft reputation at this point in time. I am not overly worried that they do not think much of the Jets' picks.