Lamar Jackson Has Signed With the New York Jets and We Are Not Joking
By Sam Dunn
New York Jets fans, get excited: Lamar Jackson has joined your team! This is a verifiably true statement injected with zero satire or parody. It is factual. A football-playing human person named Lamar Jackson has signed with Gang Green, period.
Unfortunately, he's not the reigning NFL MVP you're thinking of. He's an undrafted rookie free agent cornerback out of Nebraska.
Lamar Jackson (no, not that one) signs with Jets https://t.co/iwaUME7xPo
— Rotoworld NFL Draft (@Rotoworld_Draft) April 26, 2020
Still, though, 30 NFL teams cannot claim that Lamar Jackson plays for them. The Jets can!
An All-Big Ten Second Team selection in 2019, Jackson was a three-year starter for the Cornhuskers. He was at his best as a senior, picking off three passes and breaking up 15, adding two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.
On top of it all, he has really good size for a corner at 6-2 and 208 pounds.
The #Jets got Lamar Jackson. Are you happy now, Larry David? ? https://t.co/qd7jnHmKlY
— Geoff Magliocchetti (@GeoffJMags) April 26, 2020
The Jets are entering a strange time in the AFC East in 2020 now that the New England Patriots dynasty of the last two decades is no more. They'll need a lot more than some sneaky secondary depth pieces if they're going to break through, but in the meantime, don't tell them that Lamar Jackson isn't their guy.