http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/04/30/with-the-117th-pick-of-the-draft/ Ranting and Raving about the Gang Green Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/04/30/with-the-117th-pick-of-the-draft/#comment-278 rschles Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:18:11 +0000 http://thejetsblog.com/?p=624#comment-278 The Jets were fine not to draft a "running back of the future" this year. Here's why: - Top flight RBs have an NFL life-span of probably six years. - RB is probably the position at which a rookie is most capable of contributing at a high level immediately. - The Jets will will be lucky to win six games this year. Given those three suppositions, it would make no sense to spend a high draft pick on a stud RB. Why waste one of his six years of top-level performance in a season that you're not going to compete anyway. (WRs and QBs, by contrast, need a few years to develop, so you take them now with an eye towards them stepping up in two or three years.) Look for the Jets to select a stud RB in the first two rounds next season, in what will hopefully prove to be the finall piece needed for competitiveness. The Jets were fine not to draft a “running back of the future” this year. Here's why:
- Top flight RBs have an NFL life-span of probably six years.
- RB is probably the position at which a rookie is most capable of contributing at a high level immediately.
- The Jets will will be lucky to win six games this year.
Given those three suppositions, it would make no sense to spend a high draft pick on a stud RB. Why waste one of his six years of top-level performance in a season that you're not going to compete anyway. (WRs and QBs, by contrast, need a few years to develop, so you take them now with an eye towards them stepping up in two or three years.)
Look for the Jets to select a stud RB in the first two rounds next season, in what will hopefully prove to be the finall piece needed for competitiveness.

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