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NY Jets draft countdown: The greatest 163rd overall picks of all time

The New York Jets are set to come to Las Vegas’ NFL Draft podium nine times between April 28 and 30. In celebration and anticipation, Jets X-Factor looks back at the finest names chosen in their respective current slots.

We begin at the back of the order with the 163rd overall pick, a fifth-round selection gained through the Jets’ 2020 trade of Avery Williamson to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Jets' Bake Turner hauls one in against Falcons' Ken Reaves during an AFL-NFL preseason game at Legion Field, Birmingham, AL, 8/23/1968. pic.twitter.com/gS7f2ciudD

1962: WR Bake Turner, Baltimore

Don Maynard is the first in franchise history to pull it off, but Bake Turner is, literally speaking, the first New York “Jet” to register a 1,000-yard season, doing so in the first year away from the “Titans” branding in 1963.