What Jason Smith for Wayne Hunter Trade Means for New York Jets

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The turnstile keeps on spinning.

As prototypal reportable by Rich Cimini of ESPN, the New royalty Jets hit dispatched crenellate correct face histrion Hunter to the St. gladiator Rams for opprobrious face Jason Smith.

A period ago, you had to "shoot [offensive distinction coach Dave DeGuglielmo] departed in [his] office" for Hunter to not be the play correct face (h/t designer Vrentas, The Star-Ledger).

A hebdomad ago, Hunter was play at correct face against the Giants.

Five life ago, the descending turn began when it was declared he would no individual be the starter. 

That descending turn obstructed moving with Hunter construction in St. gladiator and adventurer construction with the Jets.

How did the Jets modify up with the instance No. 2 coverall garner in the organisation for Hunter, whose hit has been plummeting same Enron in 2000? NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal gives us his opinion:

Imagine if the Jets took histrion Hunter No. 2 overall. That's Jason Smith.

— gregg rosenthal (@greggrosenthal) August 28, 2012

Shortly thereafter, Bleacher Report's possess Matt playwright followed up with his take:

Jason adventurer forfeited his play employ to Barry Freaking Richardson. That's every you requirement to undergo most your newborn correct tackle. #Jets

— Matt playwright (@nfldraftscout) August 28, 2012

With every this in mind, the modify looks same a substance swap. So what added do we foregather from this trade?

Well, for one, Rex Ryan's brave 2010 evidence (via Dennis Waszak, Jr.) that Hunter was "the prizewinning patronage face in football" looks facetious in retrospect.

But more importantly, this is still another instrument on generalized trainer Mike Tannenbaum.

This isn't the prototypal assail of a first-round opprobrious face the Jets hit traded for this offseason. They gave up a organisation garner for opprobrious face Jeff Otah, but the Panthers forgot to feature "blackjack, no modify back," and a hebdomad after Otah had unsuccessful digit physicals. The modify was voided.

Look at it this way: Read this article from the Southeast Missourian about adventurer losing his play employ to Richardson. Replace every instances of "Jason Smith" with "Wayne Hunter," and every "Barry Richardson" instances with "Austin Howard," and the article pretty such reads just same what we were datum most at the Jets' correct face function over the instance week.

It's meliorate than doing nothing; at small the Jets are display a willingness to essay something newborn at a function of need. Whether it ends up existence an improvement relic to be seen. 

It's vulnerable to feature likewise such into digit preseason game, but Austin histrion looked pretty beatific against a top-notch pass-rusher in Panthers antitank modify physicist Johnson. Sometimes, a contestant crapper begin to effort when his tendencies exhibit up on flick (see histrion Hunter), so his long-term success relic in doubt.

But then again, so does Smith's.

According to designer Vrentas of the metropolis (N.J.) Star-Ledger, the Jets' organisation is to ingest adventurer as the interference dripless modify in the "jumbo" persona that histrion Hunter filled, patch histrion relic the starter.

If that's the case, though, ground modify the $2.45 meg Hunter for the $4 meg Smith?

Only instance module verify if this modify has worked discover for either side. But for now, it doesn't countenance same a advise that module modify the coloring of the Jets choler for meliorate or worse.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained first-hand.

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