{"id":11829,"date":"2012-04-02T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=11829"},"modified":"2012-04-02T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:39:56","slug":"jets-may-not-target-pass-rusher-in-draft-till-round-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2012\/04\/02\/jets-may-not-target-pass-rusher-in-draft-till-round-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets May Not Target Pass Rusher In Draft Till Round Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been thought the Jets would target a pass rushing linebacker\u00a0early in the 2012 draft.\u00a0 Melvin Ingram (South Carolina), Courtney Upshaw (Alabama) or Andre Branch (Clemson) are considered favorites at this position\u00a0to be chosen within the first two rounds, but some sources have indicated this might not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sports Illustrated draft analyst Tony Pauline\u2019s web-site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draftinsider.net\/blog\/\">TFY Draft Insider<\/a>, the Jets will not be targeting a pass rusher until the 5<sup>th<\/sup> round pick #154:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a lot of speculation in mock draft\u2019s around the internet that the New York Jets will use the 16th pick to select <strong>Courtney Upshaw<\/strong> of Alabama.\u00a0 Sources tell me that while the Jets would consider it, the way it stands today the team is unlikely to pull the trigger and choose Upshaw.\u00a0\u00a0 The word in the scouting world is the Jets will target a pass rushing linebacker in the later (5th) rounds, similar to the way they targeted wide receivers during the same part of last April\u2019s draft.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The acquisition of Tim Tebow may have changed the Jets drafting priorities or the team feels content with Bryan Thomas, Aaron Maybin and Ricky Sapp playing opposite Calvin Pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the Jets may settle on more of a project pass rusher concentrating instead on other positions earlier in the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been thought the Jets would target a pass rushing linebacker\u00a0early in the 2012 draft.\u00a0 Melvin Ingram (South Carolina), Courtney Upshaw (Alabama) or Andre Branch (Clemson) are considered favorites at this position\u00a0to be chosen within the first two rounds, but some sources have indicated this might not be the case. According to Sports Illustrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nfl-draft","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-34N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11829"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11829\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}