What did the Jets get in the Sam Darnold trade?

Sam Richard Darnold is a well-known American football quarterback who plays for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).

He enrolled to USC, where in 2017 he won the Rose Bowl as a first-year recruit. The New York Jets selected the young player in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft, on average. Since the merger of the AFL and NFL, he was the NFL’s youngest starting quarterback on the first day of the season at age 21.

The 25-year-old athlete began playing with the Jets in 2018 and continued through 2020 before being traded to the Panthers in 2021. On April 5, 2021, he was traded to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for a 2021 sixth-round selection, 2022 second- and fourth-round picks, and management rights.

What did the Jets get in the Sam Darnold trade?

Due to the Panthers’ belief that Darnold would be an improvement over Teddy Bridgewater, they offered the Jets a sixth-round pick in 2021 along with second- and fourth-round picks in 2022. Darnold’s fifth-year option was activated, guaranteeing him $18.8 million in 2022. They went a step further.