New York Jets Draft Needs & Mock Draft for 2024

As a lead-up to the 2024 NFL draft, we've broken down the current depth chart of every NFL team and identified the biggest draft and team needs for the New York Jets.

You can find additional team-by-team draft needs articles and other draft content on our 2024 NFL Draft Hub.

Who Did the New York Jets Select in the 2024 NFL Draft?

The New York Jets selected Olu Fashanu (OT, Penn State) with the No. 11 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

The Jets also selected:

Malachi Corley (WR, NYJ)
Braelon Allen (RB, Wisconsin)
Jordan Travis (QB, Florida State)
Isaiah Davis (RB, South Dakota State)
Qwan'tez Stiggers (CB, CFL)
Jaylen Key (S, Alabama)

New York Jets Needs: Top Positions of Need in 2024

Wide Receiver
Safety
Offensive Line

What Picks Do the New York Jets Have in 2024?

The New York Jets have 7 picks in the 2024 NFL Draft, including:

Round 1 (10)
Round 3 (72)
Round 4 (111)
Round 4 (134)
Round 6 (185)
Round 7 (256)
Round 7 (257)

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New York Jets Draft Capital Stats

Our Sharp Draft Value Rank is a valuation of draft capital based on a combination of average performance delivered and average dollars earned on second contracts.

This is based on two public models: performance delivered based on draft slot (the AV model created by Chase Stuart) and contractual earnings in non-rookie deals based upon draft slot (the OTC model created by Brad Spielberger and Jason Fitzgerald).

Jets Sharp Draft Value Rank: 27 of 32 teams
Jets AV Model Draft Value Rank: 25 of 32 teams
Jets OTC Model Draft Value Rank: 28 of 32 teams

New York Jets Draft Value vs. Other Teams:

The Jets’ draft value is 20% lower than the league average of all 32 teams. 26 other teams have more draft value entering the 2024 NFL Draft.

New York Jets Draft Prediction:

Brendan Donahue has the Jets selecting Taliese Fuaga (OT, Oregon State) with the 10th overall pick in his most recent 2024 NFL Mock Draft.

Mock draft expert Ryan McCrystal believes the Jets could target a tight end like Brock Bowers (TE, Georgia) with their top pick at No. 10 overall in the first round.

New York Jets Strength of Schedule, 2024

The New York Jets have the fourth-easiest NFL strength of schedule for the 2024 NFL season.

New York Jets Offense: Depth Chart, Analysis & Draft Needs

Rich Hribar breaks down the offensive depth chart by position for the New York Jets, identifying areas where the team could improve in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft.

Quarterback Depth Chart, Jets:

Aaron Rodgers
Tyrod Taylor

Aaron Rodgers suffered an Achilles injury just four plays into the season last year, completely deflating the helium his team had in making a jump to contention.

Rodgers will turn 41 this December, carrying cap hits of $17.1 million and $51.5 million over the remaining two years on his contract.

The Jets are in clear “win-now” mode, and their moves this offseason have reinforced that.

After back-to-back MVP campaigns in 2020 and 2021, Rodgers took a step backward in 2022 after the Packers traded away Davante Adams.

Entering last year, this situation had an almost identical overlap to what we saw with Tom Brady four years ago joining the Bucs.

Like Brady leaving New England, Rodgers was coming off his worst season and outright appeared to be uninterested at times with the offense.

After back-to-back seasons of having the worst quarterback depth in the league exposed, the Jets made sure to add a better insurance policy this summer by adding Tyrod Taylor.

Last season in a rough offensive climate, Taylor led the Giants offense to 5.2 yards per play on his 373 snaps.

That would have ranked 14th in the NFL over a full season.

For added context, the Giants averaged just 3.9 yards per play on offense with Daniel Jones in the game and 4.3 yards per play with Tommy DeVito under center.

If by chance the Jets do have to go to another quarterback this season, they should not completely drown like the past two seasons.

Running Back Depth Chart, Jets:

Breece Hall
Israel Abanikanda
Jacques Patrick
Xazavian Valladay
Nick Bawden (FB)

Returning from an ACL injury that cut his rookie season short in 2022, Breece Hall still managed to post strong counting stats in this offense a year ago.

Hall turned 299 touches into 1,585 yards from scrimmage and nine touchdowns.

Only Christian McCaffrey finished with more total yards than Hall did among running backs last season despite a slow start in terms of playing time and operating in one of the league’s worst offensive climates.

In the passing game, Hall was second on the team in targets (95) and receptions (76) while catching a team-high four touchdowns.

Hall did not even play 50% of the offensive snaps in a game until Week 5.

While the top-down efficiency from his full campaign is lacking given the limitations that this offense faced through quarterback and offensive line play, Hall showcased his immense upside to close the season.

Over the final three weeks of the season, Hall logged his three highest snap shares at 77%, 71%, and 89%.

Week 16 vs WAS: 32 touches for 191 yards with two touchdowns.
Week 17 @ CLE: 22 touches for 126 yards and a TD
Week 18 @ NE: 39 touches for 190 yards and a TD

Entering 2024 fully removed from his ACL injury with Rodgers returning and significant pieces added to the offensive line, Hall is set up strongly this upcoming season.

The depth behind Hall is limited and inexperienced.

I could see the Jets adding a veteran after the draft, but they are not expected to do anything overly aggressive in free agency or during the draft.

The team selected Israel Abanikanda in the fifth round last season.

As a rookie, Abanikanda only managed 29 total touches for 113 yards.

Wide Receiver Depth Chart, Jets:

Garrett Wilson
Mike Williams
Allen Lazard
Malik Taylor
Jason Brownlee
Xavier Gipson
Irvin Charles
Lance McCutcheon

Garrett Wilson has posted back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in his first two years playing attached to the worst quarterback in the league.

We believe the Jets have something special here. We are just praying Wilson gets a full season playing with a functional passer.

Over the past two seasons, 16.5% of Wilson’s targets have been deemed inaccurate by TruMedia.

The only player with a higher rate of inaccurate targets over that period with as many overall targets as Wilson is Davante Adams at 17.2%.

Last season, Wilson caught 95 passes for 1,042 yards and three touchdowns.

The rest of the Jets wide receivers caught 57 passes for 654 yards and three touchdowns.

The team added Allen Lazard and Mecole Hardman via free agency last year, but both were major misses.

Lazard caught 23 passes for 311 yards and a touchdown.

He did not have more than three receptions in a game while catching six passes for 66 yards over the final 10 weeks of the season.

He even ended up as a healthy inactive for the final two weeks of the season.

The team still has Lazard on the books for the next three years, but his immediate future is completely up in the air. He has been on the trade block, but there are thin odds that another team will aggressively pursue him and his current contract.

The best outcome here would be that Lazard can connect with Aaron Rodgers again and attempt to recoup some of his value.

Hardman only ran 21 pass routes for the Jets before asking for his release and then catching the game-winning touchdown in the Super Bowl for the Chiefs.

With limited resources and a soft free agent class, the team is taking a flier on Mike Williams after he was released by the Chargers.

Williams will turn 30 this October and is returning from an ACL injury that ended his season in Week 3 last year.

He suffered the injury in a game where he had already caught seven passes for 121 yards and a touchdown.

Williams has only played in 16 games over the past two seasons, but he has been hyper-productive when on the field going back to 2021.

Over the past three seasons, the Chargers have averaged 0.77 EPA per play with Williams on the field.

The only wide receiver with a higher EPA play with as many plays as Williams over that span is Brandon Aiyuk (0.96).

We highlighted how important Williams was to Justin Herbert just two days ago.

While Williams was a boom-or-bust swing to make, it is calculated based on the situation here in New York.

That said, the addition of Williams does not make wide receiver any less of a need for this team.

The Jets still need viable snaps and contractual depth here even if Williams is close to a full go to open the season.

The rest of this group is extremely limited.

You can make the case that Jason Brownlee and Xavier Gipson could be better with a quarterback like Rodgers, but you are still betting on a pair of undrafted prospects hitting, which inherently carries low odds.

The Jets should be hoping that WR3 in this class somehow slides to them at No. 10 overall.

While that has lower odds of happening, that is why you see the team consistently mock drafted the next-best pass catcher available, which happens to be a tight end as opposed to a wide receiver.