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I — like seemingly most New York Jets fans, players, and coaches — properly *can’t stand* Zach Wilson. Never liked him from the moment the Jets drafted him and have only spent the last 18 or so months being proved increasingly right. Just look at this dork!
From this moment on, I had zero faith in Wilson, and now, FINALLY, the team that drafted him reportedly feels the same way.
According to NFL Insider Jason La Canfora, Wilson’s time in New York City is effectively over and he told WFAN’s In The Huddle that the second-year signal caller “doesn’t have a future there.”
“He doesn’t have a future there.. He lost his job to Mike effing White, you think he wants to be there? No. No! His agents say ‘You took this kid second overall and that’s the look you gave him? That’s how little you believe in him?’ No. It’s over. I don’t know what they get for him, but it’s over,” he said. “He’s not a part of their immediate future and their immediate future’s everything, and in the offseason, both sides are going to have a bunch of reasons why they should move on,” La Canfora said.
He also added that if Mike White were to suffer an injury, he believes the team would turn to Flacco instead of Wilson:
“If this thing goes off the rails a couple weeks from now because of injury or whatever – the buggy turns into a pumpkin or whatever – I think they go to Joe Flacco. I don’t think they go back to Wilson. I don’t think that’s tenable.”
The fact that the Jets are apparently ready to move on from Wilson after just 20 starts in the league further hammers home was a colossal draft bust he’s proving to be, as it’s difficult to think of many, if any, first-round QBs that have been jettisoned from the franchise that drafted them so quickly.