The Jets took tackle Armand Membou with their first-round pick and one of his Missouri teammates headlines the team’s undrafted rookie free agent class.
Quarterback Brady Cook is one of the 15 players who signed with the team before the start of rookie minicamp on Friday.
Cook threw for 8,591yards, 46 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions while starting 38 games for the SEC school. Justin Fields, Tyrod Taylor, and Adrian Martinez are the other quarterbacks on the Jets roster.
Guard Leander Wiegand is also in the group. Wiegand played one year at UCF before returning to Germany to play professionally.
The Jets also signed Kansas wide receiver Quentin Skinner, South Alabama wide receiver Jamaal Pritchett, Rutgers wide receiver Dymere Miller, Michigan running back Donovan Edwards, Purdue center Gus Hartwig, Clemson defensive tackle Payton Page, West Virginia defensive tackle Fatorma Mulbah, Florida linebacker Ja’Markis Weston, South Carolina State linebacker Aaron Smith, Cincinnati linebacker Jared Bartlett, Fresno State defensive back Dean Clark, Notre Dame defensive back Jordan Clark, and Ole Miss kicker Caden Davis.
The Jets announced the signing of four more draft picks on Thursday.
Third-round cornerback Azareye’h Thomas, fourth-round safety Malachi Moore, fifth-round defensive lineman Tyler Baron, and fifth-round linebacker Francisco Mauigoa have signed their four-year rookie deals. First-round pick Armand Membou signed his deal as well.
Second-round tight end Mason Taylor and fourth-round wide receiver Arian Smith are still unsigned.
Thomas had 52 tackles, five passes defensed, and an interception at Florida State last year while Moore started 46 games at Alabama. Baron and Mauigoa were teammates on Miami’s defense before joining back up with the Jets.
The Jets have signed their first-round pick.
They announced that offensive tackle Armand Membou agreed to terms with the team on Thursday. The seventh overall pick’s four-year pact is worth over $31.9 million and the Jets have an option for a fifth season.
Membou started 30 games at right tackle for Missouri and performed well at the Scouting Combine to solidify himself as one of the top offensive line prospects in the draft.
It’s the second straight year that the Jets took a tackle in the first round and 2024’s top pick Olu Fashanu is expected to be bookend the line at left tackle with Membou on the right side.
The Jets released three players Thursday, the team announced.
Linebacker Jimmy Ciarlo and wide receivers Easop Winston and Marcus Riley were cut.
Ciarlo originally signed with the Jets a year ago as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Army. The Jets waived him in August and re-signed him this offseason.
He served as a Black Knights co-captain in 2023 and started 24 games in 2022-23.
Winston signed with the Jets in January after spending the last six weeks of the 2024 season on the Jets’ practice squad. The Washington State wide receiver also has spent time with the Rams, Saints, Browns and Seahawks. He played three games with New Orleans in 2021.
Riley signed with the Jets as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Florida A&M after the 2024 draft. The Jets waived him in August and re-signed him this offseason.
For four seasons, Robert Saleh was the 49ers’ defensive coordinator under head coach Kyle Shanahan. After middling results from 2017-2018, Saleh coached a dominant unit in 2019 that helped San Francisco reach Super Bowl LIV.
Now Saleh is back with the 49ers after a four-year stint as head coach of the Jets. He told reporters on Thursday that he had no interest in working for another team as DC.
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for this organization,” Saleh said, via Nick Wagoner of ESPN. “They gave me so much and during the first two years, if you think about those first two years as the coordinator in ’17 and ’18, it wasn’t easy, and it could have been very easy for them to move on for me.
“I’m indebted to this organization, to those men for the rest of my life. They stuck with me and we made it happen. We did what we needed to do and the rest is history and I’m excited about the opportunity to get a chance to do it again with them.”
San Francisco ranked No. 2 in yards allowed and No. 8 in points allowed in 2019. New York finished No. 4 and No. 3 in yards allowed in Saleh’s final two full seasons as head coach.
