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Troy Aikman relates to Zach Wilson's rookie struggles, remains bullish on the New York Jets QB

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- A look at what's happening around the New York Jets:

1. Welcome to the club: Zach Wilson's rookie season wasn't pretty. No one can relate to that better than Troy Aikman, who went 0-11 with nine touchdowns and 18 interceptions after being drafted No. 1 overall by the Dallas Cowboys in 1989.

"I struggled as much as any [rookie quarterback] in the history of the game," Aikman said this week.

Not everyone experiences the Aikman-Wilson tribulations, which the former Cowboys star acknowledged by saying of Wilson, "Welcome to what has become a smaller club of struggling rookie quarterbacks.