Jets explain one of their greatest draft mistakes ever

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Christian HackenbergTwo years after drafting him in the second round, the Jets finally pulled the plug on the Christian Hackenberg experiment.

The Jets traded Hackenberg to the Raiders on Tuesday for a conditional seventh-round pick in next year’s draft. This comes after Hackenberg spent two years without taking a snap in a regular-season game and was only active for five games total as a Jet.

The drafting of Hackenberg will go down as one of the great blunders in franchise history because he could not even get on the field. Now, he will try to get his career going with Jon Gruden in Oakland.

“I don’t have any regrets in this league,” Jets coach Todd Bowles said. “Obviously, a lot…