Nobody should have been surprised. After general manager Mike Maccagnan set a Jets franchise record with five draft-weekend trades last April, he declared a few weeks back that the possibilities were endless.
“The thing that excites me most about the draft is there are so many different things that could potentially happen,” he told reporters at the NFL Combine. “We have no qualms about potentially moving up, we’d have no qualms about sitting where we are and taking a player. We have no issue potentially moving back and, if not at the top, at any pick of the draft.