James Morgan grew up within the shadow of Lambeau Subject. Now, he might get to face the Packers there sometime.
The Jets chosen Morgan, a quarterback from Florida Worldwide, with the second of their three fourth-round picks on Saturday within the 2020 NFL Draft. Morgan will get to be Sam Darnold’s backup, though he's really just a few months older than Darnold.
Morgan understands he isn't being drafted to start out, however the Jets additionally know they should develop some depth behind Darnold — he has missed six begins prior to now two years, and the Jets misplaced each a kind of video games.
“From the discussions we’ve had, one factor I feel I’ve tried to clarify to them is no matter position I could have whether or not it’s serving to Sam put together, competing, no matter it could be, that’s out of my management,” Morgan mentioned. “It’s as much as them to determine. All I'm going to give attention to is what I can management and that’s giving my full effort to serving to the workforce win. Nonetheless it shakes out, I’m simply right here to assist this group win video games.”
Morgan has a giant arm and is clearly clever. He started his school profession at Bowling Inexperienced and graduated from there in three ½ years with a level in pre-law. Morgan transferred to Florida Worldwide after a training change led to him dropping his beginning job at Bowling Inexperienced. He wrote letters to 30 applications and FIU gave him his shot.
In two years at FIU, he led them to back-to-back bowl eligible seasons and an upset over the crosstown rival Miami Hurricanes. The 6-foot-4, 229-pound Morgan accomplished 65.three % of his passes in 2018 for two,727 yards, 26 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Final 12 months, his numbers dropped a bit to 58 %, 2,560 yards, 14 touchdowns and 5 interceptions.
Morgan was projected to go anyplace from the fourth spherical to undrafted. He mentioned he received a way the Jets favored him via the pre-draft course of.
“I've had some completely nice interactions with them all through the course of it,” Morgan mentioned. “On the mix they had been the one official interview I had. That was improbable. I felt actually good with their coaches. I simply can’t wait to go begin working that relationship.”
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Rising up in Inexperienced Bay only a few minutes from Lambeau, he idolized Brett Favre and wore No. Four in youth soccer. He modified to No. 12 in highschool for Aaron Rodgers.
Morgan was a workforce captain, a pattern for the Jets’ third-day picks, and mentioned his work ethic is a power.
“I feel my high power is absolutely my preparation,” he mentioned. “Every little thing that I do week in and week out is to assist our workforce win. I’m a very good chief. I’m a great competitor. On the sector, I’d say my greatest power is my arm power. That makes me good with anticipation and throwing in home windows different guys can’t. I’m very assured with that. I feel I could make any throw on the sector.”
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