{"id":482232,"date":"2024-04-22T19:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482232"},"modified":"2024-04-22T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:18:05","slug":"jets-trading-quarterback-wilson-to-broncos","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jets-trading-quarterback-wilson-to-broncos\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets trading quarterback Wilson to Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Jets, who believed they had the QB position locked up for the future when they picked Zach Wilson with the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> overall selection in 2021, traded him to the Broncos today.<\/p>\n<p>Based on what New York invested for the quarterback, they got almost nothing back in return \u2013 a 6<sup>th<\/sup>-round pick (No. 203) in the upcoming National Football League draft as Denver in addition to the quarterback will get a 7<sup>th<\/sup>-round selection (No. 256). New York and Denver are splitting the 5.5 million dollar Zach is due this campaign with each franchise covering almost 3 million dollar from his salary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 \ud83d\udea8 \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jets<\/a> starting QB and No. 2 pick Zach Wilson is on the move. Sources say he\u2019s being traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Broncos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Broncos<\/a>, hoping for a fresh start. <\/p>\n<p>The deal includes a late-round pick swap (6th for a 7th) and NYJ will pay some of Wilson\u2019s roughly $5.5M salary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Y1KShZ3sg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7Y1KShZ3sg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1782476288776663309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The exchange means that only 1 of 5 QBs picked in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the 2021 NFL Draft remains in the organization that drafted him \u2013 Trevor Lawrence, who was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> selection by the Jaguars. The other 4 \u2013 Zach, Lance, Fields, and Jones have all been exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>With Wilson no longer with the Jets, veteran Aaron Rodgers and inked reserve p Tyrod Taylor are the only QBs on the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Jets, who believed they had the QB position locked up for the future when they picked Zach Wilson with the 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482233,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17056,17324,17171],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18406,17873,20761],"acf":{"announce":"New York is sending QB Zach to Denver.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482242,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482232\/revisions\/482242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482232"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482232"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}