Some mild nerdery: this year's waivers claims.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

That's absolutely right, far as their draft position was concerned. The biggest reason they killed the draft was because of all the high picks.

It's legit weird, much as we love to hate on the Jets (and/or me), that teams across the league saw six of their castoffs as must-have snags to pad the bottom of their rosters.

I think it's weird because you usually associate so many players getting claimed from one team as evidence that this team has a loaded roster. Spoiler alert: the Jets do not have a loaded roster.

So it really means that the Jets cut a lot of enticing guys with desirable traits from their garbage roster.

I don't follow the Jets close enough to know the story there: are they coached purely incompetently?

Saleh's been there a year; maybe he was ready to move on from a bunch of otherwise really promising players who he simply didn't like for one reason or another. Couldn't he have flipped them for picks?

Six players being claimed, despite on paper being some kind of insane bragging rights for the Jets, seems to be kind of a stain.

Their roster could still be garbage. This simply means that a team likes one of these players better than they like their 53rd guy. That's it. So, even a team with a better roster might simply want that particular guy (due to position, age, contract, etc.) more than their guy.