Saints’ Tyler Shough offers Jets an important risk-reward draft reminder

Tyler Shough isn’t just a quarterback that the Jets let get away. 

He is the quarterback that gives the Jets hope the future is not Fernando Mendoza or bust. 

The Jets will start undrafted Brady Cook in a battle of rookie quarterbacks Sunday against the Saints, whose late-season optimism stems from their second-round pick Shough’s development over his first six starts (3-3) after a seven-year college career. 

“He’s been through a lot of adversity and so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s playing the way he’s playing right now,” Jets head coach Aaron Glenn said. “He was a guy that was on our list. He’s a good player — we all know that — and I think he fits what they are trying to do very well.”