"If Fields fails his 2025 audition, the Jets can cut bait and look to find their quarterback in the 2026 draft," Cimini writes. "There is no clear-cut top quarterback, but it's regarded as a better class than 2025 even though it's not likely to include Texas' Arch Manning, according to ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller."

As Fields now prepares to play for his third team in the NFL, Pennington, who played for the Jets for eight seasons -- completing an impressive 65.6% of his passes for 13,738 yards and 82 TDs -- said that the Green & White's new quarterback has been learning in each of his three stops along the way.

While an admitted exaggeration, the way the Jets behaved in the 2025 NFL Draft gave the impression that they feel as set at quarterback as the Chiefs do with Patrick Mahomes.