{"id":4196,"date":"2010-04-24T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T17:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T10:47:04","slug":"ny-jets-draft-moves-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2010\/04\/24\/ny-jets-draft-moves-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Jets Draft Two; Leon Washington Traded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Leon Washington\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/JetsWiki\/images\/b\/be\/LeonWashington1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"271\" \/>The New York Jets 2010 draft is done, unless they make a trade to get back into a later round.\u00a0 It was a wild day for the Jets and one that changed the direction of the ground game.\u00a0 Veteran running back Leon Washington who recently signed his tender offer to return to the team was traded to the Seattle Seahawks.\u00a0 Here is a recap of the moves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe McKnight, Round 4 &#8212; 114th overall<\/strong> via trade with the Carolina Panthers.\u00a0 The Jets acquire Leon Washington&#8217;s replacement before officially trading Leon Washington.\u00a0 McKnight who is 5&#8243;11, 198lbs played at USC and is considered to be a scatback.\u00a0 Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">thread with more information<\/a> and fan reaction.<\/li>\n<li>John Connor, Round 5 &#8212; 139th overall via trade with the Seattle Seahawks.\u00a0 To get this pick the Jets also gave up their 7th rounder and Leon Washington.\u00a0 Connor, nicknamed The Terminator is a true full back.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t count on him running the ball or running complicated routes but he is a mauler.\u00a0 He played for Kentucky and stands at 5&#8217;11&#8221; and weighs in at a strong 246lbs.\u00a0 Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/\">some additional information<\/a> on Connor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is sad to think that Leon Washington will no longer be with the New York Jets.\u00a0 Such an explosive player, so much heart and he was truly fun to watch.\u00a0 The NFL is a cruel business and the Jets have made the decision to get younger at RB and save some money along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets 2010 draft is done, unless they make a trade to get back into a later round.\u00a0 It was a wild day for the Jets and one that changed the direction of the ground game.\u00a0 Veteran running back Leon Washington who recently signed his tender offer to return to the team was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-4196","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-15G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46848,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/46848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}