INDIANAPOLIS — Jets coach Aaron Glenn is right here on the NFL Scouting Mix attending to know the gamers on this yr’s draft.
However there’s one participant right here who Glenn has recognized for the reason that day he was born — Clemson security R.J. Mickens.
Mickens is the son of Ray Mickens, who performed with Glenn at Texas A&M after which with the Jets.
The 2 former cornerbacks stay shut, and now Mickens’ son is projected as a Day 3 decide on this yr’s draft.
Might he find yourself with the Jets and Glenn?
“That will be actually cool to play for the Jets, simply realizing that [my dad] performed there,” R.J. Mickens mentioned Thursday. “That metropolis is a good metropolis, an important fan base and only a nice group. It will be actually cool.”
Mickens mentioned he had not met with the workforce but when he spoke to reporters Thursday, but when he does, Glenn received’t must do a lot digging to get to know him.
“He’s a very real individual,” Mickens mentioned of Glenn. “He’s an important function mannequin and an important chief, an important man. He’s actually particular, and he’s going to do nice issues there.
“I used to be simply so excited to see him get that job. That’s enormous for him and his household. We sort of grew up with their household. My dad clearly performed with him, in order that’s only a nice relationship.”
Followers of the Jets within the late ’90s watched Glenn and Mickens star within the defensive backfield below coach Invoice Parcells and defensive coordinator Invoice Belichick.
They youthful Mickens mentioned he has not seen numerous his father’s sport movie.
“I don’t watch numerous movie of him. It’s sort of arduous to get it,” he joked.
Ray Mickens spent eight of his 10 NFL seasons with the Jets after they took him within the third spherical in 1996.
“My dad’s helped me a lot,” R.J. Mickens mentioned. “Simply being a former DB, realizing how DBs assume, instructing me defensive schematics, all the things’s simply been enormous and having the ability to faucet into that useful resource at any time when I need has been wonderful.”
