New York Jets: 7-Round 2018 mock draft in early April

ARLINGTON, TX - DECEMBER 29: Sam Darnold (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TX - DECEMBER 29: Sam Darnold (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 01: Dimitri Flowers #36 of the Oklahoma Sooners catches the 11 yard pass from Baker Mayfield #6 in the 2018 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 01: Dimitri Flowers #36 of the Oklahoma Sooners catches the 11 yard pass from Baker Mayfield #6 in the 2018 College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /

We’re in a society of labels in 2018. If you’re this you can’t be that. So, some people are going to look at this pick and think that this is a mistake, because taking a “fullback in the fourth round” is a mistake. Frankly, you might be right, if the Jets plan on using him simply as an I-formation lead blocking fullback.

That said, Flowers is much more that your traditional lead blocking fullback. That’s proven in the way Oklahoma used him, and how the Jets should consider using him as well. At 6-2, 247 pounds, he’s a little undersized to play in-line tight end in the NFL. However, he’s capable of doing it, because he’s strong. Flowers can also play wingback, the fullback in the I, H-back, or line up in short yardage as the power back in a one-back set.

The Jets have some many holes he can fill, and, given that they traded both second round picks this year and their second round pick in 2019, it may be better for them to try to plug the hole with one over multiple players. He gives them a pass-catching, running, and blocking weapon. Flowers is the Swiss Army knife of this draft, and is a value pick in the fourth round.