Devin Smith’s season is over before even began. Again.
At the conclusion of the NFL Draft Saturday evening, Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan announced that Smith tore his right anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in 16 months. And as a result, the oft-injured receiver will be sidelined for the entire 2017 season.
Maccagnan said Smith, their 2015 second-round pick, suffered the injury “prior to the first set of OTAs” and believes the 25-year-old has already undergone surgery.
“He had been around [the facility], he had been working and training,” Maccagnan said hours after he selected California wide receiver Chad Hansen with 141st overall pick less than 24 hours after taking Alabama wideout ArDarius Stewart.