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Jets’ NFL draft takeaways: Jachai Polite is gamble who may become steal

The 2019 NFL Draft is in the books. The Jets walked away with six new players from this year’s draft. We won’t know for a few years how it went, but here are some early takeaways:

1. Ever since Mike Maccagnan sent this year’s second-round pick to the Colts as part of the deal to move up in last year’s draft to get Sam Darnold, I have thought he would figure out a way to get back into the second round.

I was wrong.

Maccagnan tried, but could not pull it off. First, he tried to trade back Thursday night but could not find a package he liked more than Quinnen Williams.