While we anxiously await a decision on our next coach and general manager, I thought I'd throw a different question out to the board.... I genuinely would love to know what everyone thinks about Jordan Travis as the future at quarterback? Obviously he had a gruesome injury at FSU and has had several setbacks, but assuming he fully recovers, could he be our next franchise quarterback? Obviously, no one has a crystal ball, but what he did towards the end of his career at FSU was really impressive. In my humble opinion, he showed flashes of being a really good, Heisman/NFL caliber quarterback. Other than Jaxson Dart, who certainly comes with his own concerns, I am not enamored AT ALL with this qb draft class, so I have no faith that the Jets are walking away from this draft set at quarterback. So my question remains, is it possible we have our quarterback of the future on the team already in Jordan Travis? Fire away!
Zero chance. No new regime is going to spend any time at all on a guy they didn’t draft that was taken in the 6th round. At best he’ll be put on our practice squad
Franchise QB? I would be reluctant to ever use that word again with this organization. My intuition tells me he could be a Teddy Bridgewater type ceiling (if coached up properly). I just wonder if he will be able to run like the dual threat he used to be or will he look like Aaron Rogers with his injuiries. He was a great player at FSU, NFL is a different animal though. He has to prove he can make the throws.
To be fair, the only reason he was a 6th round pick was because of the awful injury. He was getting picked WAY before that had he not had that gruesome injury. Especially if FSU made the playoffs and he went off. And a new regime would be foolish to cut off their nose despite their face by not giving a player a look/chance simply because they didn't draft him or he's not their guy. Another way to get yourself fired and hated is to reach on a qb, simply because you want "your" guy (Darnold, Wilson, etc) and he's a bust! And yes, as a 43 year old whose family has had season tickets my entire life, I too would be scared shitless to ever utter the word "franchise qb" in the same sentence as Jets!
You know the Cleveland Browns quarterback jersey with all the crossed out names on it? We need that but for Bollinger, Clemens, McElroy, Simms, Petty, Hackenberg, White, Streveler, and now Travis.
I still have high hopes for him, but he has yet to play a single live snap in the NFL. Nobody knows how he'll return from injury or how his game will translate to the NFL when all is said and done. I'd like to hope sitting behind Aaron Rodgers for a year has helped his development. It's nice to see a QB not thrown directly to the fire in year one. I'd love to see him get some reps this preseason and see some promise, but he's still a massive question mark at this point. Do the Jets roll with Rodgers for one more year in hopes he can mold Travis into a Jordan Love?
There's some great in that group. I'll have to wait and see how he does in preseason, against 3rd string and camp fodder, before I anoint his our franchise savior.
The same guy that absolutely what on Jalen Milroe for a whole page of a thread is advocating for Jordan Travis? Travis is a good kid and a good leader. I don’t think he has much of a NFL arm to be the guy. He has a slight frame and he tends to really have to get his body weight into his throws with forward momentum when he needs zip on the ball. It makes him a good thrower on the run, but I’m not sure if he can really fling the ball from the pocket with the needed velocity to be an effective NFL passer. I think he can run a NFL offense and be a chain moving backup (which makes him a good late round pick) but that’s about it.
For whatever it is worth, Travis was a 5th round pick, not 6th rounder. As I recall, Douglas traded up for him. He was in the Heisman conversation until hurt, and assuming he is healthy IMO should get a long look IF he is healed. 44 passing TDs, 7 INT, and 14 rushing TDs. Undersized w small hands but a great competitor and FSU went down the toilet after his injury. Why not take a long look in preseason if he's ok?
I think Travis may end up being a decent NFL QB not great but serviceable and for a different franchise,
Travis was FAR better than Milroe. I’m not sure how much you watched Alabama, but milroe can’t make routine college throws, let alone NFL throws. He throws a pretty deep ball and allows his superior wide receivers to go make plays for him. Milroe depended on his incredible athleticism as well as the incredible athletes around him, but can’t read a defense for the life of him and was wildly inaccurate. Short of MAYBE Ohio State and Georgia, there’s no one in college football that has nearly as much talent as Alabama, yet he still couldn’t win there.
I agree, assuming he’s healthy and can play his style of football, it’s worth giving him a shot. I don’t pretend to know more than anybody else on this board. He could be a total bust for all I know. But I do think good players are good players and he was very good at FSU. For all the people so quick to dismiss him, tell me who you would want the Jets to draft in this cycle that you would feel better about? I’m not sold on any of the quarterbacks coming out this year, short of Jaxson Dart and by no means is he a “can’t miss”. You can keep Sanders and I’m certainly not sold on Ward.
Yeah I debunked a lot of this nonsense that you probably didn’t read. He didn’t lose a conference game in 2023. He lost one regular season game in his second start of that year, beat Georgia to win the SEC title and lost to the eventual National Champion Wolverines in the semi-finals. The same Wolverine team that probably finished with one of the best defenses ever. That was also with an offensive coordinator that Saban fought with to change the offense to tailor it to the quarterbacks strengths. Then a new regime comes in with a pure pocket power offense and his best receiver (albeit obviously a great talent) being a guy that hasn’t even turned 18 yet. Not a great season for Milroe by any stretch but “cAn’T rEaD a DeFeNsE” is just typical lazy analysis for an unbelievably explosive talent that isn’t a fully polished or developed passer… yet. By the way, since NIL, everyone’s caught up to the top tier of the SEC. Everyone can pay and poach players. It’s no longer 3-4 programs at the top and that’s it. College football has a mountain of parity. So I very much disagree that they’re just head and shoulders above everyone in talent like they were through most of Saban’s reign pre-NIL.
