McShay on the Deepest WR Class

Todd McShay is eight days from the draft and still working live intel on the deepest wide receiver class in recent memory, and one name that hasn't worked out yet is about to change the board.

Rich opens with a trade prediction from McShay's mock 4.0. The Jets move up to seven for Carnell Tate. The cost is the second-rounder Dallas sent them for Quinnen Williams plus a fourth and the sixteenth overall pick. The logic is pairing Tate with Garrett Wilson for whoever the quarterback of the future becomes.

McShay's reasoning starts with a name most casual fans haven't tracked. Jordan Tyson, Arizona State.

Tyson works out on Friday, two days before the draft. He started at Colorado. A serious knee injury, ACL, MCL, PCL, cost him most of 2023. He came back in 2024 for his best season, then broke his collarbone before the college football playoff. This past year he was mostly healthy, but a hamstring injury shut him down at the end. Combine, no workout. Pro day, no workout. Friday is the first real measurement teams will get, and the league whisper is that Tyson might be the most talented receiver in the class. Tate, Tyson, and Matthew Golden headline the first tier. Casey Conception, Jalen Royals, Denzel Boston sit in tier two. Omarion Hampton is the fourth receiver everyone talks about, but McShay's straw poll of evaluators says Conception is the actual fourth receiver on most boards.

That framing changes what the Jets are actually deciding.

Nine picks this year. Four in the top 44. Three first-rounders next year. If you are the Jets, the question isn't whether a good receiver is available at 16. A good one will be. The question is whether a tier-one receiver will be. McShay's math. Saints at 8. Chiefs at 9. Rams at 13. Any or all of them could take one of the top three. If that run happens, 16 lands you Conception or Cooper, both good players, both not Tate.

So the Jets have a choice. Sit back and take the tier-two receiver at 16. Go a different position. Or use the capital advantage, with this year's picks and next year's first-rounders, to move up and secure the guy.

Rich sees the strategic logic. Pair the best pass rusher with the best receiver in the top ten. Take the first pick of Friday night at 33 as one of the most valuable second-night slots in the draft. Let Arizona or someone else trade up into the back of the first and push another really good player down to you.

McShay frames this as a real debate inside the Jets organization. Not a certainty, not a no-go, a live conversation about how aggressive to be with the capital they have built.

Friday's workout for Tyson is the piece that could move the whole board. If he looks the part, teams at eight, nine, and thirteen have to decide whether to take him over Tate. And that cascade is how receiver runs start.