Jets’ Rebuilding Plans Do Not Include Extended Combine Stay

A Jets assistant coach talked with quarterback Kenny Pickett during practice for the Senior Bowl, a college exhibition game held on Feb. 5.Credit...Butch Dill/Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS — Unlike a majority of his peers on Tuesday and Wednesday, who addressed reporters in person from a lectern set up at the Indiana Convention Center, Jets Coach Robert Saleh sat at the team’s facility at Florham Park, N.J., and answered questions about the team’s pre-draft plans via a video conference call.

Saleh and his coaching staff opted not to attend the first few days of the six-day N.F.L. combine, the most prominent player evaluation event on the league’s calendar, which started on Tuesday. Instead,…