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Jets explain one of their greatest draft mistakes ever

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Christian Hackenberg

Two years after drafting him in the second round, the Jets finally pulled the plug on the Christian Hackenberg experiment.

The Jets traded Hackenberg to the Raiders on Tuesday for a conditional seventh-round pick in next year’s draft. This comes after Hackenberg spent two years without taking a snap in a regular-season game and was only active for five games total as a Jet.

The drafting of Hackenberg will go down as one of the great blunders in franchise history because he could not even get on the field.