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What should have been a dream has quickly turned into a nightmare for Zach Wilson and the New York Jets.
Wilson was supposed to be the Jets’ franchise quarterback for years to come when they selected him No. 2 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Instead, Wilson has shown time and again that he’s just not up for it at the NFL level.
Through 24 career games, the BYU product has completed just 55 percent of his passes for 4,332 yards, 17 touchdowns and an astonishing 22 interceptions.
New York solved that problem, or so it thought, by trading for four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers in the offseason. Rodgers would lead the talent Jets roster for the foreseeable future before Wilson perhaps took over again after he retired.
But it wasn’t to be.
Rodgers tore his achilles just four plays into the 2023 NFL season. And so it was yet against Zach Wilson time.
And, yet again, Wilson showed he’s not up to the task.
The third-year QB went just 12-of-27 for 170 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions in his Week 2 start against the Dallas Cowboys.
Jets coach Robert Saleh and countless players have expressed their confidence in Wilson. But their actions show otherwise.
New York reportedly reached out to retire journeyman quarterback Chad Henne last week in hopes that he’d reconsider his decision to hang up his cleats.
Henne quickly declined.
“I hung them up for the right reasons,” Henne reportedly said of the decision. “I didn’t want to go back and put my body into it.”
The 38-year-old played for the Miami Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars and Kansas City Chiefs in his 13-year NFL career. But he spent just three of those seasons as the primary starter.
Henne’s best statistical season came in 2010 with the Dolphins. He went 6-8 as a starter, throwing for 3,301 yards, 15 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.
Yikes.
But hey, at least it’s not Zach Wilson.