Defensive Tackle · New York Jets

Darrell Jackson

No. 78 · Rookie

Number 78 is new to the Jets, and so is everything else

The roster spots nobody talks about are the ones hardest to hold onto. Darrell Jackson Jr. is stepping into one of those — a depth defensive lineman on a team still figuring out what it has up front, wearing 78, trying to make himself impossible to overlook.

At Florida State, his final season showed what he can do in a real game: 45 tackles and 3 sacks in a college program that plays in the spotlight. That kind of production earns a draft call. What it doesn't guarantee is a year two.

The Jets selected him, and now the work is the quiet kind — practice reps, film, staying ready for when the call comes. Depth linemen live on the margins of the roster, and the ones who survive are the ones who make coaches trust them before they need them.

This is the beginning of something. Whether it becomes a story worth telling is still up to him.

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