It has been said that even the best general managers in the will hit on about fifty percent of their picks in the NFL draft.\u00a0 Those are the best.\u00a0 The cream of the crop.\u00a0 And with a bevy of on and off-field traits to be evaluated each year, choosing players will always be an inexact science.\u00a0 Just ask Jets GM Joe Douglas, who is seeing right now how something can go from afterthought to emergency in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n
Just look at the players Douglas has taken early on in his first two drafts at the helm at 1 Jets Drive.\u00a0 Mekhi Becton, Denzel Mims, Zach Wilson and Elijah Moore.\u00a0 All highly touted players.\u00a0 Each one a cause for serious concern, albeit for different reasons.<\/p>\n
In the case of Becton, despite managing to stay healthy throughout his collegiate careers, has battled injuries since entering the NFL and thus far, the injuries are winning.\u00a0 Becton will have missed all but a handful of snaps over the past two seasons when this year winds down.\u00a0 The product of a freak injury suffered by Becton when guard Greg Van Roten was tossed on to the back of Becton’s leg in the season opener two years ago.<\/p>\n
Then there’s Mims.\u00a0 A productive college receiver with a great height\/speed ratio who showed a fair bit on the field as a rookie.\u00a0 However, once failed head coach Adam Gase was sent packing, Mims found himself playing for a staff whose offensive philosophy wasn’t a fit.\u00a0 Mims went from promising to perplexing and everything that could go wrong did go wrong in year two.\u00a0 Whether it was food poisoning, drops or drawing out of character penalty flags.\u00a0 Mims may or may not be on the way back as he has contributed with some key plays over the past two weeks, but his time with the Jets hasn’t been anything close to what the team envisioned.<\/p>\n