Source: New York Post
See Also new york jets Jets should throw caution to the wind in favor of game-changing NFL draft stud Nineteen years ago, Mike Tannenbaum, conducting his first draft as an NFL general manager, used the Jets’ first two picks in the first round on D’Brickashaw Ferguson and Nick Mangold. Little could Tannenbaum have known at the time that Ferguson would man the left tackle position for the franchise for the next 10 years, starting in all 160 possible career games, and Mangold would play the next 11 as the team’s starting center, logging 164 games. The Jets were coming off a 4-12 season in 2005 and, out of that 2006 draft, Ferguson and Mangold not only immediately helped the team win but they became generational players who helped the Jets get to the playoffs in three of the next five seasons.
