Wide Receiver · New York Jets

Jamaal Pritchett

No. 81 · 2nd season

Nobody drafted Jamaal Pritchett. He showed up anyway.

There is no easier way to get overlooked than to go undrafted. No announcement, no jersey photo, no moment. You sign a contract that most people never hear about, and then you have to earn everything the hard way.

Pritchett came out of South Alabama without a team calling his name on draft day. He found his way to the New York Jets, made it through a first year, and is now deep into a second one — still working, still proving. His role is not glamorous: depth wide receiver, backup on special teams returning kicks and punts. The jobs nobody notices until something goes wrong.

The Jets have 53 spots on their active roster. Every training camp, a wave of players fights for a handful of them, and most of those fights end quietly. Pritchett is in one of those fights right now.

What keeps an undrafted player going into year two is not a guarantee. It is the fact that they have already done it once when nobody expected them to.

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