The NFL has seen rookie huge receivers have an instantaneous influence in the previous couple of years.
Justin Jefferson of the Vikings set an NFL rookie report with 1,400 receiving yards in 2020. That report lasted one yr as a result of the Bengals’ Ja’Marr Chase broke it in 2021 with 1,455 yards.
The Jets now have a rookie receiver of their very own who believes he can have an effect much like those Jefferson and Chase had.
“I’m very assured,” Garrett Wilson stated Saturday after the second day of the Jets’ rookie minicamp. “I feel I can have that influence. I need to do all the pieces it takes to have an effect.”
The Jets don’t want Wilson to set information. They simply want him to offer their offense a spark and quarterback Zach Wilson a goal to throw to. The Jets haven't had a 1,000-yard receiver since 2015 when each Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker did it.
The Jets chosen Wilson with the No. 10 total choose with the hope he can staff with Elijah Moore to offer the Jets a younger receiving tandem they haven't had because the days of Keyshawn Johnson and Wayne Chrebet.
“Except for psychological make-up, he’s obtained super physique management, vary, nice route-running capability,” Jets coach Robert Saleh stated of Wilson. “He’s obtained nice versatility. He can win these one-on-ones that we talked about yesterday in man protection when groups are on the market in press. Clearly, there’s going to be issues he has to work on like each rookie does. I’m actually excited to have him and the flexibility that he’ll present.”
Wilson was the second receiver drafted final month after USC’s Drake London, who was taken by the Falcons. It was a loaded draft for receivers with 4 extra being taken within the eight picks following Wilson.
The Jets rave about Wilson’s physique management and his capability to win within the air. Wilson credit his basketball background for that power of his recreation. He performed AAU basketball and averaged 21 factors per recreation as a junior in highschool. His father, Kenny, performed within the NBA for the Nuggets.
“Basketball I really feel like interprets rather well to soccer,” Wilson stated. “The fixed leaping and getting up and down the ground. It’s so unpredictable. It’s not deliberate out. You form of are reacting lots of the time in basketball. It’s not like operating a route the place you already know the place you're going to break.”
Wilson was born in Ohio and lived there till his household moved to Texas when he was in sixth grade. He watched Lake Travis Excessive Faculty soccer video games and their quarterback Baker Mayfield and commenced to really feel the tug of soccer over basketball.
“[In Ohio] the soccer video games had a very good turnout, the basketball video games had a very good turnout, however the entire metropolis shutdown once I obtained all the way down to Lake Travis on a Friday,” Wilson stated. “It was simply completely totally different, the help behind the staff. It’s actually good to develop up there and be an athlete actually it doesn't matter what sport you’re enjoying.”
Wilson had provides to play school basketball however selected to play soccer for Ohio State, the place he grew to become a star within the Buckeyes’ high-powered offense.
At 5-foot-11, 183 kilos, Wilson isn't the largest receiver you will note. He performed inside and outdoors at Ohio State and the Jets worth his versatility.
“They got here in all sizes and styles,” Saleh stated. “Rather a lot it has to do with that psychological make-up. Lots of guys play larger than they're, lots of guys play smaller than they're. What I feel separates him is he does have super physique management and vary almost about his size and all that stuff. He performs larger than his measured measurement.”
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