New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson has no future with the team. Every Jets fan and every fan of all the other NFL teams knows this. But apparently, Jets general manager Joe Douglas doesn’t.
Speaking to the media on Friday, Douglas declared that he sees his failed No. 2 overall pick as “an asset” and stated that he is open to trading him. As Jets insider Brian Costello of the New York Post pointed out, the statement echoes a similar one recently made by Jets owner Woody Johnson.
“Zach is an asset. We’re obviously open to trading Zach. There have been discussions but nothing’s really changed,” Douglas said.
But Douglas might have skipped the part in the economics textbook where the definition of “an asset” was explained. Because if he hadn’t, he’d know that something needs to have positive value in order to be worth anything – let alone draft capital.
Wilson has been such an abject failure in New York that no NFL team is willing to even offer a conditional or late round pick to bring him into the fold, as they have with several of Wilson’s contemporaries at the position like Mac Jones, Trey Lance, Sam Howell and Kenny Pickett.
As a result, fans are roasting Douglas for the audacity of his statement in referring to Wilson as “an asset.”
“Eh, other teams know they have zero intention of ever putting him on the field in a Jets uniform. They have no leverage,” one user pointed out.
“Douglas is a joke. They know they have no takers for Wilson. So the $5M is sunk cost. Frankly they should take the money from Douglas salary. He has not earned his pay,” wrote another.
“If this season doesn’t go very well, the ZW pick will have destroyed Douglas’s GM career,” a third wrote.
Unless the Jets are holding out hope that another team suffers an injury at quarterback this offseason, they’re simply delusional with how they’re handling this situation publicly.