Mike Maccagnan said at the NFL Combine last month that the Jets would be “very active” in free agency and that they might have deals that were “viewed as being aggressive” from a financial standpoint.
, which came into being in 2011. The Jets have invested $137.6 million in total guarantees to their new signees this month and to the players from last year’s squad who hit free agency and were re-signed by the club. And what would the right circumstances be? The absence of a plug-and-play edge rusher being available with the third pick. Obviously, nobody knows for sure what the teams are thinking, but the popular mock-draft landscape for much of this off-season recently changed when Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray spurned baseball--he already was under contract to the Oakland A’s--and decided to make himself available for next month’s NFL Draft.