After attending Penn State and being drafted within the second spherical by the Jets in 2016, Christian Hackenberg has poor reminiscences of his time in New York.
Hackenberg, who by no means took a snap in a regular-season NFL sport, opened up this week about his poor expertise in New York and the way Gang Inexperienced was not match for him.
“New York was in all probability the final place I ought to’ve gone, when it comes to the market, the expectations, the best way it was,” Hackenberg stated on the “Ross Tucker Soccer Podcast,” on Wednesday. “In my rookie 12 months, we ended up preserving 4 quarterbacks. So there was simply not plenty of alternative for me to develop and develop. No plan, sort of an up-and-down group.
“And I believe it was simply a kind of issues the place the timing and the place it ended up simply wasn’t within the playing cards for me at that place.”
Hackenberg was extremely wanted in highschool, rating because the No. 1 general quarterback recruit for the category of 2013, in keeping with ESPN.
After throwing for 8,457 yards and 48 touchdowns in three seasons at Penn State, he went to the Jets within the second spherical.
However Hackenberg spent simply two seasons with the Jets, who had a revolving door of quarterbacks throughout his tenure underneath head coach Todd Bowles.
Snaps got to Ryan Fitzpatrick, Bryce Petty, Geno Smith and Josh McCown from 2016-17, however Hackenberg by no means noticed the sphere for the Jets in a sport that counted.
Hackenberg was lastly traded after his second season with the Jets, being moved to the Raiders for a conditional seventh-round choose in Could 2018.
The previously extremely touted prospect would final simply three weeks with the Raiders and would have stints with the Eagles and Bengals that 12 months.
Hackenberg stated it was a “battle” with all of the expectations he confronted.
“There’s so many circumstances that go into it. And after I got here out, I nonetheless knew that I wanted loads that I wanted to get higher at,” Hackenberg stated of getting drafted. “However on the similar token, I additionally had all these expectations and the narrative on the market that this child was going to be good.
“It was simply this actually sort of battle internally after which externally with messaging and the way issues had been being portrayed that I needed to take care of.”
Hackenberg tried to ignite a baseball profession in 2020 after his NFL profession light, boasting a fastball that reached 90-plus mph, although he rapidly deserted that dream.
