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People pushing Kyler Murray or Malik Willis to the Jets might be a tad misguided.
I don’t get it at all.
The Jets have been down this road enough, with quarterbacks who are generally one-read and run cats.
They just went through that this year with Justin Fields, and a couple of years before that with Zach Wilson.
They took a one-year respite from that in 2024 with Aaron Rodgers, a full field-reader, who tossed 28 TDs, but was shown the door about a year ago.
In Murray, he’s clearly not a franchise QB. He proved that in Arizona. And the idea that they had to put a clause in his contract, giving him bonuses for studying harder, which was the case when Arizona offered him a megadeal in 2023, why would you want a player like that? After media backlash, they took that clause out of the contract.
And Arizona just hired Mike LaFleur to be their new head coach. They clearly hired him because he has a good reputation as an offensive coach, and comes from the Sean McVay tree, so if he’s the offensive mastermind they think, and he doesn’t want to keep Murray around, and try to work with him, why would the Jets want a guy like that?
I think Willis has shown flashes filling in for Jordan Love here and there, but if he was the guy week-in and week-out, over the course of the season, with tons of starting film for opponents to devour, you get the sense that opposing defenses would catch up to him fast.
“While he is considered an elite backup, questions remain about his ability to run a full, unrestricted NFL offense compared to his success in a protected, condensed playbook,” wrote NFL analyst Jackson Kreuger.
Mike Vrabel could not wait to move on from Willis when he played for the Tennessee Titans. He just didn’t see him as a starting NFL QB.
They are also quarterbacks who lack ideal size for the position, with Murray, just a tad over 5-9, and Willis measuring in at 6-0.
The Jets have made so many QB plans in recent years that didn’t work out, so why go down this road with Murray or Willis?
Those are the kind of moves that you seem to be asking for problems.
And not sure this market would be good for either one of these players, but then again, the Jets coverage isn’t that tough now. However, the sports talk radio hosts, fan bloggers, and Twitter universe can be, as can the back-page tabloid headline writers
Hey Jets, this is not the way to go.
How about re-signing Tyrod Taylor and drafting Ty Simpson or signing Kirk Cousins and drafting Grant Nussmeier or trading for Tanner McKee and drafting Trinidad Chambliss?
Don’t go down this road with an undersized QB who likes to run around and doesn’t see the field well.
And with Murray, you would probably have to trade for him. Why give up draft capital for a guy with so many question marks?
Not the way to go.
February 11, 2026
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