It wasn’t hard to see that the New York Jets entered the 2025 season with an uneven wide receiver room. Leading the room? Garrett Wilson, who is arguably one of the league’s top 10 wideouts. After him? One could say the room was “unproven” if they wanted to be kind.

But unproven isn’t always bad. Sometimes unproven allows for a player to rise to the occasion and make a name for themselves. Among the options, the highest upside was generally considered to be rookie Arian Smith who the Jets took in round 4 of the draft for his superb athletic traits despite having little track record of great on-field success.

Thus far, Smith has yet to live up the challenge.

To be clear though, this isn’t really a knock on Smith. Smith was taken in round 4 for a reason, namely that a great deal of develo

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