Jets fans, the 2025 draft classes here and the question looms.

Will this group join the ranks of legendary Jets draft classes like 2000, 2006, and 2022?

We're going to break it down today on Locked On Jets.

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Welcome, this is the Locked on Jets podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. It is Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, and I'm your host, John B from Geng Green Nation.com. Thank you for making the show your first listener, first watch every day. A big shout out to you every day. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week, Monday, through Friday. And today's episode is brought to you by Fandual. Right now, new customers can get $200 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. On today's show, we have our weekly mailbag. Thanks so much to everybody who sent in questions. Let's begin. Our first question, John, do you think that this Jets draft class has the potential to be one of the greatest classes in franchise history.

We all know the difference the 2022 class made with Garrett Wilson, Sauce Gardner, Brees

Hall, and Jermaine Johnson making immediate impacts. What are the odds this class has the same impact

right off the bat? So that's a good question. And I think it's always difficult to expect any individual draft class to be one of the best in franchise history. But if you think about like the recent Jets draft classes, by recent, I mean like last 25 years or so, when we talk about the ones that are the most decorated, the ones people talk about as being like the best of the best. They're really three that come to mind.

There's the 2000 draft class, the 2006 draft class, and the 2022 draft class, the class

of three years ago.

And those three classes all have something in common.

The Jets had extra early picks in all three of those years.

In 2000, they actually had four first round

picks and they used those picks to draft John Abraham, defensive end, Sean Ellis, another defensive

end, Chad Pennington, a quarterback, and Anthony Beck to tight end. And then they threw it in Laverneus

Coles in the third round at wide receiver, a phenomenal draft class. 2006, the Jets drafted

to Brickshaw Ferguson and Nick Mangold both in the first round and then

2022 Jets had four top 40 picks they picked Bruce they picked um sauce gardener fourth overall

Garrett Wilson 10th they traded they had they started with the day with two second round picks

they traded up for a third first round pick to get germane johnson, and then night two early in the second round, they drafted Brees Hall. So it's not actually, it's actually

not a surprise that those are the three best Jets draft classes of the 21st century, because those

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