“You can tell he’s a great guy,” Tippmann said. “Great quarterback. Great leader.” And Tippmann said the Jets are getting to know Fields outside of football. The second-year player said Fields has already been on multiple post-practice excursions to a golf simulator.

But for all the good work the Jets have done this offseason, there is one big and glaring hole that the franchise has yet to fully address - the receiver position. Mason Taylor and Arian Smith were drafted, but right now, they aren't needle movers or players who the Jets and Fields know will come through on gameday.

NEW YORK -- For a three-week period in the New York Jets ' offseason -- from the Feb. 13 announcement that Aaron Rodgers would be released to the start of free agency in March -- Tyrod Taylor was thought to be a fallback option for the starting quarterback job.