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The New York Jets select QB Zach Wilson with the No. 2 pick | 2021 NFL Draft
PROVO One of the first things that stood out to New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas about Zach Wilson and one key reason why he selected the former BYU quarterback with the No. 2 overall pick in Thursday s NFL draft was his emotion and passion.
Wilson doesn t just enjoy football. He eats it, drinks it, chews it up and spits it out then goes back to do it over again tomorrow.
But those emotions caught up to Wilson as he walked out of the green room at the NFL draft theater in Cleveland on Thursday night, grabbed a Jets Flight Crew hat off a pedestal, and went to shake NFL commissioner Roger Goodell s hand after slapping palms with a half-dozen Jets fans in the pits as the highest pick in BYU football history.
Timeline: No 3 picks in the NFL draft rarely match the high expectations sfchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. A look at what s happening around the New York Jets:
1. Go O, Joe: By his own admission, general manager Joe Douglas failed to supply former quarterback Sam Darnold with enough help to prosper a fresh scar for the organization. Now he gets a mulligan with a second quarterback, presumably BYU s Zach Wilson, and it would be the definition of insanity if he lets it happen again. If you re trying to put yourself in a good situation, this whole draft would be about Zach Wilson, at least early on, said NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah, a former scout who worked with Douglas at the Baltimore Ravens. We re going to devote as many resources as we can to give him the opportunity that Sam didn t have which is to have some good people in front of him and a lot of options of where to go with the football.