Tight End · New York Jets

Mason Taylor

No. 85 · 2nd season

The Jets drafted a tight end in the second round, then used a first-round pick on another one a year later

There are ways to tell a player they're not the answer. A Tuesday phone call. A quiet trade. Or — if you're the New York Jets — you spend a first-round pick on someone who plays the same position, a year after you spent a second-round pick on them.

Mason Taylor came to New York as a second-round tight end in 2025. That kind of selection carries a message: we believe in you enough to invest early. A year later, the Jets went back to that same well and pulled out a first-round pick — on a tight end.

No one has said anything directly to Taylor. No one has had to. The draft board said it for them.

What happens now is the part worth watching. Taylor is young, still early in whatever this career becomes. But the organization just told him, in the plainest language a front office knows, that they are still looking for someone at his position. He can answer that. Or he can't. Either way, he'll know exactly what he's playing for.

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