A little over a year ago, I was sitting with someone from the New York Jets and we were discussing where it all went wrong with Zach Wilson. It was a lengthy conversation about all manner of things that impact a young quarterback’s growth — from maturity to confidence to patience and team-building ideology. In the grand analysis of everything, the tapestry of errors made by the organization boiled down to one regret.
Wilson never should have started as a rookie. The team wasn’t built for his success, and he wasn’t built to overcome the organization's shortcomings.