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Jets don't want to be footnote in Adam Thielen's amazing story

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- If there's a team in the NFL that can truly appreciate Adam Thielen, it's the New York Jets. Their locker room is filled with players who came up the way he did -- the hard way.

Undrafted. Ignored. Discarded.

The Jets have 16 former undrafted free agents, including six starters: Robby Anderson, Jermaine Kearse, Isaiah Crowell and Eric Tomlinson on offense, Steve McLendon and Brandon Copeland on defense. Each player is a success story, but what Thielen is doing for the Minnesota Vikings is truly remarkable.