Thoughts:
The Jets:
Going into the draft, I was looking at maybe Stingley/Sauce and Walker, or CB, WR at #4 and #10. I wasn't expecting Thibodeaux to fall as hard as predicted. And even though some mocks had Walker 1st overall, others had him as #3 DE. After Stingley, and Thibodeaux were selected, I was thinking that trading down #10 might've been better because there would be top WRs/EDGE available early in the 2nd round and we would be able to address another position with the extra pick. I'm happy things worked out the way that they did.
RB Breece Hall - It's historically bad to select the first RB in the draft. Only 9 of them have played on winning superbowl teams and more than half of those 9 did not play in the superbowl on the team that drafted them.
@Wahoo said about RBs in the draft:
"Yep (RBs are kickers in terms of draft position). RB by committee, injuries and you can find em from rnd 5 to undrafted free agents. Burn & churn.
Few things worse can happen to a team than have a RB turn into a star so they get suckered into signing him to a 2nd contract."
Although I don't fully agree with him, he isn't that far off.
I'm not so worried about Hall since we made 3 1st round picks ahead of him and he was selected in the 2nd round. We won't be dedicating a lot of cap space to him and the Jets with Sauce, Wilson, and Johnson have less needs.
Day 3's selections are head scratchers:
Max Mitchell - I don't hate the pick but I don't particularly like it either. He's built for LT and not much more. The only way that I can see this pick as making any sense is if we're going to trade Fant.
Micheal Clemons - I'm not worried about his traffic stop bust. But we need friggin' LBs and I don't see him being converted.
This is JD's make-or-break year and it's very obvious that he's all-in. Unfortunately for him, next season's success will be highly dependent upon Zach Wilson making significant strides forward and the short passing game improving.
Rest of the NFL:
I was surprised that Stingley was selected ahead of Sauce.
I expected Kyle Hamilton to fall just because he's a safety.
The Chiefs and Bills traded up into the first round to select 2nd tier CBs?!?
I thought the entire NFL reached at WR. Maybe it's financially motivated (ie not wanting to pay past the rookie contract).
The NFL's consensus on Nakobe Dean is probably that he'll bust. Injury should not have pushed him all the way to the 3rd round if that weren't the case.