2026 Draft - QB Prospects

Mendoza goofy ? Have you listened to Patrick Mahomes and the high pitch voice trying to sound enthusiastic at any interview?

All I got to say is talent and winning trumps all !

He’s good..sign this beast

 

That was a good read. I can 100% get behind that strategy. Whatever pick they land, take whatever QB is left on their board as long as it's not too ridiculously low. Toss their hat into the ring, get that QB and live with the decision and do their best to hit on all those other picks they'll keep by not wasting them on a trade. Sounds like the best 2026 draft strategy I've heard yet. (yeah, I know it sounds like a lot of what a bunch of us have been saying but it was still a good article)

 

It also sounds like it fits Mougey and his strategy, which seems to be to always get the best value. I don't think he's willing to overpay to draft a QB and that means not trading massive draft capital.

 

I can be sold on LaNorris Sellers at 7. The talent there is wild. 50 yard flick of the wrist touchdown throws in a dot and he’s built like a slightly smaller Cam Newton with legs the size of tree trunks.

South Carolina’s offensive line was destroyed all year long by injury and the talent gap between their roster and a lot of their opponents was pretty wide to the opponents favor.

They played ranked teams in 6/7 weeks at one point. 5/6 finished ranked and the only one that didn’t is LSU who has an elite defense. 4/6 made the playoffs. That list excludes Vanderbilt who they played a week earlier and finished ranked in the top 15.





That’s a grown man play right there in clip one. In clip two - he’s 245 pounds..

 

Im a big fan of everything Sellers has. He needs coaching for sure which is obviously scary as a Jets fan. I also think you could get him with our second first rounder.

 

I would love Sellers. He would just bring some excitement for once. And when the weather gets cold you would rather have a freakin beast like him than any of these other prospects

he squats nearly 600lbs. We would get every 4th down QB sneak

 

watch this throw from Sellers. 65 yards in the air, with touch, barely looks like he broke a sweat.

2025 USC vs Clemson - Nyck Harbor 53 Yd Touchdown Reception - YouTube

 

For Sellers, just like Fields, is can he read a D? He struggled pretty bad this year but of course, the natural athletic ability is nice.

 

I'm struggling to see how Sellers is much different than Fields.

 

Way different. Justin Fields played with possibly the greatest stockpile of wide receiver talent college football has EVER seen at one time. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Garrett Wilson, Jameson Williams, Chris Olave.

Fields had four 1st round draft picks all going out for passes at the same time.

These guys were running wide open, Fields could take his time and throw it to whichever wide open guy he wanted

who does Sellers have? Nyck Harbor is fast, sure, but raw. Definitely not a 1st round pick but he will get drafted. That's about it. Terrible running backs and offensive line. Oh yeah and a brutal SEC schedule that has knocked him around good

 

I mostly meant that it's not clear either can pass.

 

I think if Sellers stays in school, transfers like Mendoza did to an 11-2 football team with talent, next year he's a slam dunk 1st overall pick

I'd prefer not to wait for that myself. It would be awesome if he declares and we can get him with the Colts 1st rounder ahead of schedule AND keep all our picks

 

I think the difference is that Sellers doesn’t fancy himself as some sort of pure pocket passer. Fields did and yeah he ran some in college but reluctantly despite the athleticism.

We saw that this year here too. It’s clearly his best asset and he doesn’t want to run until it’s too late.

Sellers definitely needs to be developed as a passer but guys like him who can run buy themselves a lot more time to develop and slow defenses down like Josh Allen and Lamar did.

I think his biggest problem IMO and Nagle has watched the most so he can correct me if I’m wrong, is his ability to drive the ball in the intermediate range. He has plenty of arm strength, but the ball sails on him a lot and he airmails guys on the sidelines on deep outs or ins.

 

I don't really see it like this.

Every QB, if they could waive a magic wand, would choose to become a good passer. They all know being a good passer is the best possible version of playing QB, that's why all of the QBs who are good at running get so upset when people question their passing ability.

I think developing as a passer is extremely rare. Usually, if you couldn't do it in college, you can't do it in the pros. Almost always. Josh Allen is a unicorn and Lamar was a better passer in college than Sellers has been.

I also think it's extremely difficult to train the "bail and run" mindset out of athletic QBs. Running and beating defenders with athleticism is what they've been doing since Pop Warner. After 15 years of relying on it, it's instinct. I just can't rationalize spending a first round pick on a guy who will have to overcome 15 years of instinct in 2-3 years against tougher competition.

 

I agree about Allen and hate bringing him up as an example. Lamar was one of the most prolific running QBs in college football history though. And while a better passer, he played with a much better roster in a much easier conference. South Carolina playing 4/6 playoff teams in 6 weeks and a 5th that was one of the first 3 teams out is insane.

But I was more-so trying to make the point that him and Fields are way different in terms of prospects. Fields wants nothing to do with tucking and running and was like that at Ohio State. Sellers runs because he’s good at it and I think it translates more.

If he played for Georgia or Texas do you have any doubts that he’d throw for 250, run for 50 and score 3TDs a game?

 

I am no expert and haven’t watched this Sellers kid not even once.

However, I think that the Jets, as a franchise who has NEVER been able to develop a QB, is not in any kind of position to gamble a high pick on an athletic running QB who can’t read a defense, go through progressions, and play solid QB play.

It’s easy to get enticed by rocket arms and speed and size and all that jazz.

But we’ve seen guys with great physical ability like Fields or Zach, who maybe not as imposing as this kid, still can’t play QB.

Enough of that…and again, I haven’t watched Sellers so I don’t know if he’s similar in that way, but if he is, I don’t think we are the team to draft him and try to develop him.

 

They haven’t been able to develop any type of QB dude lol. Geno Smith was a monster of a passer in college dude. He threw for almost 12,000 yards and 100 TDs. So was Darnold. They both had rocket arms and could move albeit weren’t ever “runners.”

This type of stuff I don’t get. “Well it’s never worked here so we can’t target X player now or X player with X skillset.”

That mentality just reads as we should just fold as a franchise and give up.

 

No not fold the franchise, but I sure would love it if we hired an offensive HC (and no I don’t count Gase as a good example of that…he was a total fraud propped up by Peyton just like Nathaniel was propped up by Rodgers…anyone with two eyes could see he was a disaster…anyone except our stupid owner apparently)

But given that Woody is Woody and here we are again with a defensive HC learning on the job, no I don’t trust us to develop a QB who clearly needs development. Shit, I would be skeptical even if we drafted a more polished NFL-ready type QB also, but with a raw physical traits guy, forget it. Bound to fail.

And again, I’m not calling out Sellers specifically as I have not watched him play so I know nothing about him…I’m just talking in general about getting too excited about strong physical guys with cannon arms thinking we can mold them into top QBs. News flash…we can’t.

Or maybe another way to think about it… if we want to say that the past failures have nothing to do with THIS GM and THIS HC, I’d say fair enough. Let’s look at what THIS HC and THIS coaching staff have done at the QB position with a similar type of guy in that Fields is athletic, can run, has a very good arm, but doesn’t have the QB mental aspect down. What have they done? They’ve actually coached him to his worst season ever…basically unplayable at the QB position. There is ZERO evidence to point to in support of saying AG and his team can develop a QB. They can’t. Fields has played worse than ever under this staff.

So yeah, I’d rather not draft a “developmental” type guy because I have zero faith this staff could develop him.