You can’t fill every hole in the NFL Draft, but the New York Jets tried to plug as many of them as possible. But one obvious gaping wound they let continue to seep was at edge rusher.
Not only did they ignore adding an edge rusher in the draft, but they didn’t bother to try and add one through free agency, either.
That means the Jets have no choice but to rely on generating interior pressure in 2018. Buth they’ll have to do it without two familiar faces—Muhammad Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson.
Wilkerson was released after the 2017 season and signed as a free agent with Green Bay Packers.