Draft analyst thinks this Jets pick would have gone higher if . . .

Good corners are hard to find, so the top prospects at that position often come off the board pretty fast, usually in the first couple of rounds.

So for the Jets to get Qwan’tez Stiggers in the fifth round could turn out to be a steal.

NFL.com draft analyst Chad Reuter did a story on Tuesday about his three favorite picks in each round.

Stiggers was one of his three favorite fifth-round picks.

Reuter made a salient point about Stiggers’ value:

“A senior at a major college program with his ability likely would have been a late Day 2 pick, but the Jets snagged him with the last selection in Round 5,” Reuter wrote.

In other words, because of Stiggers’ unique path to the NFL draft, actually one we have never seen before, he probably went later than he should have.
Remember, Stiggers is the first player in NFL draft history to be picked after playing in the CFL, and never playing in college.
Stiggers was the CFL Defensive Rookie of the Year last year, and then shined at the East-West Shrine game, so you could argue he could have gone earlier than the fifth round.
Maybe some teams didn’t completely understand the loophole of being able to draft a player who already played in the CFL.
Time will tell if this was a good pick for the Jets, but on paper, this looks like a nice fifth-round gamble the Jets are taking here, with a player who theoretically would have gone a lot higher if he was coming out of a Power Five program.
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Dan Leberfeld
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