Cade Klubnik

Klubnik has not played a single snap through five weeks of 2026, and there is no injury behind it, no designation since before week 1 of 2026. The Jets are just keeping the rookie parked. Listed second behind Geno Smith, with an offensive staff in year two under Aaron Glenn and Tanner Engstrand, he is not close to a starting job in an offense that threw on only 44% of situation-neutral plays last season.

The preseason case for him was thin to begin with. Our projection was 43 points for the whole season, built on 4 expected games, about 10.8 a game, and the middle range ran 16 to 69. He went pick 110 in the rookie draft, a round-four flier. He is 22.9 on opening day, so the age is not the issue, the situation is, and even our board sees only two players left in his tier before a 3.5-point cliff separates him from the next group. The offense he is waiting on won 3 games in 2025 and ran 33.6 seconds a play, a slow, plodding operation that gives a rookie quarterback little to inherit. If anything changes, it is likeliest late, with the bye not coming until week 13 of 2026 and a home-heavy close in weeks 16 and 17 of 2026 against NE and MIN.

He is a stash only if your league is deep and your QB room is set. If you needed him at all this fall, weeks 1 through 5 of 2026 already cost you. Let the roster spot go to a quarterback who will start, and circle back only if Smith stumbles or gets hurt.