Go get Deebo.
If the 49ers develop into prepared to trade their disgruntled star receiver Deebo Samuel — and that remains a substantial if offered what an integral cog he is in their offense — Jets typical manager Joe Douglas need to run, not stroll, to the phone and consummate a deal.
Douglas ought to not part strategies with the team’s No. 4 over-all decide on in Thursday’s draft.
He should, however, be much more than eager to bundle the 10th all round decide in a deal that would deliver a single of the most dynamic offensive players in the video game to an offense that has ranked at the bottom of the league the previous three decades.
This substantially we know appropriate now:
- The 26-12 months-old Samuel — coming off a Professional Bowl 2021 year with 77 receptions for 1,405 yards, a league-substantial 18.2-yard ordinary and 6 touchdowns alongside with 365 yards speeding and another eight TDs — would like out of San Francisco. He made that publicly recognized on Wednesday.
- Samuel would be a seamless healthy into the Jets’ offensive process operate by coordinator Mike LaFleur, who was the 49ers passing activity coordinator and receivers coach when Samuel was drafted in 2019.
- The Jets have been just one of the worst offensive teams in the league for the past three seasons, rated 31st in factors scored in 2019 (17.3 for each activity), 32nd in 2020 (15.2) and 28th very last year (18.2).
- The Jets need to have to locate out if their second-calendar year quarterback, Zach Wilson, is likely to grow to be the franchise quarterback that Sam Darnold ahead of him in no way did. Darnold was drafted No. 3 in general in 2018 and discarded right before final season so Wilson could be drafted No. 2 total.
It’s difficult to consider a workforce getting erroneous about two quarterbacks drafted that superior consecutively, but these are the Jets.
This brings us to Samuel. You have to go again very a several decades to uncover the very last dynamic perform-producing receiver the Jets have used.
The Jets are a landing-starved group and have been for way too long. Samuel scored 14 touchdowns in 16 games in 2021.
If the Jets can land him by applying their No. 10 overall decide, even packaged with other picks, they would take into consideration that a steal. There isn’t an offensive player in this draft that will be picked on Thursday night in Las Vegas at No. 10 in general that will be a much better participant than Samuel is suitable now.
And, talking of steals and offers, if the Jets are equipped to use that No. 10 decide to get Samuel from the 49ers, that’s the 2022 1st-spherical decide on they acquired as section of the offer they bought from the Seahawks in the 2020 trade of protection Jamal Adams to Seattle.
That offer — from which the Jets acquired the initial-round decide that introduced commencing guard Alijah Vera-Tucker to the workforce past year — has been viewed as a person of the most one particular-sided trades in current NFL background.
Douglas has been lauded for fleecing the Seahawks in that offer that rid the Jets of the disgruntled and disruptive Adams, who has not been the star lacking piece the Seahawks had been hoping he’d be for them.
How ironic would it be if Douglas were being ready to use that decide to deliver Samuel to the Jets, and Samuel turns out to be the offensive star the staff has been lacking for so very long and will help Wilson become the franchise quarterback the staff has been chasing for a long time?
“When you break it down to holding the most important items, it’s heading to be about establishing and supporting our youthful quarterback,” Douglas said. “It’s about including as several change-makers as you can to the roster.’’
A trade for Samuel has possible to be a legacy-changer for Douglas, whose tenure as the Jets’ normal supervisor has not made extremely very good success with the staff 13-36 underneath his look at.
Douglas, in Thursday’s pre-draft press conference at the team facility, predictably said tiny about the risk of trading for Samuel. In fairness, there wasn’t a great deal he could say without having wandering into tampering territory.
“I simply cannot get into specifics when it will come to a player that is not on our roster,’’ Douglas stated. “I’ll just say that since coming below I’ve produced it regarded that my career is to make this workforce much better. We’re likely to do that any avenue we can.”
Questioned once again about Samuel, Douglas claimed, “If the appropriate opportunity provides alone, we are heading to be intense. If the ideal opportunity presents by itself to make this roster far better, ended up going to attack it.’’
Properly, if there was at any time a time to assault, now is that time.
Go get Deebo.
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