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Originally Posted by Rob0729

I don't know. David Harris and Jerod Mayo would easily be the best ILB duo in the league right now (all due respect to Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman). The Jets could have had Mayo over Gholston. The ILB position next to Harris was a position of need, maybe more so than an OLB since the Jets added Calvin Pace in free agency that year.

There is one thing both Gholston and Sanchez had in common. Their draft stocks both skyrocketed after the season was over. Gholston was a late first rounder/early second rounder before the combine. Sanchez has followed the path of a lot of QBs over recent years where people don't think all that highly of them in January/February and then they shoot up the draft board as April comes around (see Alex Smith). I agree the QB class of 2009 sucked overall (it was Stafford, Sanchez, Freeman, and a bunch of nobodies).

I also agree that 2008 was devoid of a lot of good pass rushers, but (I know hindsight is 20/20) the Jets could have had Mayo in the first round and Cliff Avril in the third in 2008 (granted so could the Pats). The Jets' starting LB corp would have been this year Avril, Harris, Mayo, and Pace.

Solid post overall but the bolded part is simply untrue. Gholston was a projected top ten pick a few months into the college season.