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NFL.com pegs Jets QB Sam Darnold as 1st-time Pro Bowl candidate

After a strong rookie season that had plenty of peaks and valleys, New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold could be in for a breakout campaign in in 2019.

With some added firepower at the skill positions, improved blocking, and a new scheme that plans to aggressively attack opposing defenses, Darnold is a popular pick to prove this year why the Jets made him the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft.

One such voice expecting big things from Darnold this year is NFL.com’s Marc Sessler, who picked Darnold as the team’s most likely candidate to earn his first Pro Bowl nod in 2019:

Not unlike Browns fans wearing Baker Mayfield jerseys, hanging Baker Mayfield posters on their walls and drinking gleefully from Baker Mayfield coffee cups, Jets faithful finally have a rising sun to wake up to each morning.