Jets Notebook | NFL Draft’s Later Rounds Will Feature a Gold Mine of Talent

For all the attention on the first round on Thursday, April 29, in Cleveland, Friday is really when the meat of the Draft is served up.

For the past several months, GM Joe Douglas has largely been like your voice-mail greeting: consistent each time you hear it.

For the Jets, the focus the past couple of weeks has been on the team’s prodigious draft capital: 10 picks this year and 11 in 2022.

“That’s where the scouting process really kicks in and we can reap the benefits of having a good process,” said Dan Zbojovsky, the director of personnel operations, speaking with Eric Allen and Ethan Greenberg on The Jets Official Podcast.

“I’m the one in communication with the league to make sure we can convey our pick or any movement,” he said.

The entire room is working, we have scouts working with the other team in terms of discussing the trade, but we still have to be ready to do the pick if the trade doesn’t work out.

If you’re the Dallas Cowboys, you put him in and in 10 years you’ll be happy.

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