April 18th: This Day in NYJ History

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April 18th: This Day in NYJ History Apr 18, 2015 19:44:01 GMT -5 Bing© in Buffalo Chairman and The Tax Returns Are in Kenya like this

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April 18, 1998. NFL Draft Day. On the day that saw Peyton Manning go to the Colts, the NYJ had 12 draft picks. We gave up our #1 & #3 to the Patriots when we signed Curtis Martin as a RFA. We acquired a lot of extra picks through trades of several players, including Hugh Douglas, Adrian Murrell & Lorenzo Neal and then traded back several times during the draft to acquire extra picks.

Rk Year Rnd Pick Player School

1 1998 2 56 Dorian Boose Washington St.

2 1998 3 67 Scott Frost Nebraska

3 1998 3 87 Kevin Williams Oklahoma St.

4 1998 4 111 Jason Fabini Cincinnati

5 1998 5 134 Casey Dailey Northwestern

6 1998 5 141 Doug Karczewski Virginia

7 1998 5 146 Blake Spence Oregon

8 1998 5 149 Eric Bateman BYU

9 1998 6 163 Eric Ogbogu Maryland

10 1998 6 174 Chris Brazzell Angelo State (TX)

11 1998 6 183 Dustin Johnson BYU

12 1998 7 195 Lawrence Hart Saginaw Valley St.

These 12 players went on to start a total of 147 games in their NFL careers -- 129 of those by Jason Fabini. A dreadful waste of 12 draft picks -- sound familiar to anyone?

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April 18th: This Day in NYJ History Apr 19, 2016 5:19:37 GMT -5

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parcells was never know as being such a great draft picker. it's the same old story albeit 18 years ago. the jets woes have always plagued with not making good (or developing) draft picks. imagine if guys like clemmens, gholston, hill, ducasse, etc all worked out. that's about 25% of the of today's team. about the only good thing is those guys would be commanding good sized contracts if they did work out.

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April 18th: This Day in NYJ History Apr 19, 2016 5:48:52 GMT -5

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Apr 19, 2016 5:19:37 GMT -5 rangerous said:

parcells was never know as being such a great draft picker. it's the same old story albeit 18 years ago. the jets woes have always plagued with not making good (or developing) draft picks. imagine if guys like clemmens, gholston, hill, ducasse, etc all worked out. that's about 25% of the of today's team. about the only good thing is those guys would be commanding good sized contracts if they did work out.

Which means we would be getting comp picks as some of the guys we developed moved on -- more opportunities to make those good picks. Drafting well is so critical to building a team, having strength on teh bench to let guys go without having to replace them in free agency, like we did this offseason.

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