03/05 — A thread that has run through the Jets' acquisitions in the last five days is the player draft pedigrees. Of the five players brought in either as free agents or in trade, only one — DT Kris Jenkins — was not a first-rounder. He went in the second round of the 2001 draft to Carolina.

No. 5 was added Tuesday, and it's not a player who has been on media and fan radar screens.

CB Andre Woolfolk is the newest member of the Green & White.

Why do we know Andre? And why have we forgotten him? We know Woolfolk because he was Tennessee's first-round pick, 28th overall, in the 2003 draft. He came out of Oklahoma with fine size (6'2", 197) and speed (4.45 in the 40), but injuries over the years limited him to 39 games, 11 starts and three interceptions from 2003-06.

On the second question, Woolfolk was out of the NFL last season after the Titans released him from their IR in August. So he's not an unrestricted free agent.

As for some background, Woolfolk is one interesting guy. His Titans media guide bio reads like a feature story. For instance:

● Woolfolk’s wife, Jaime, played center field for the Sooners' softball team. The two first met in the OU weightroom in 1998. In March 2003 they were married on a yacht in Newport Beach, Calif., honeymooned on Bora Bora, then returned stateside in time for Andre to be drafted by the Titans.

● Woolfolk is an avid golfer who shoots in the high 70s to the mid 80s. He scored his first hole-in-one on St. Patrick's Day 2005, which was also Jaime's birthday. His wife routinely beats him on the golfcourse with rounds in the mid-70s.

● An artist since he was a kid, he has built his portfolio and aspires after his football career to develop his own comic strip. (Sound familiar, Darian Barnes fans?)

● He was a teammate of Denver TE Daniel Graham (another first-round pick, by New England) at Thomas Jefferson High in Denver.

● And for all of you who wondered if Andre is somehow related to another Woolfolk, former Giants RB Butch, he is. He and Butch are cousins.

I was familiar with Butch from his sensational career at Westfield HS in New Jersey, then at Michigan. He got the Woolfolk family's first first-round selection when the Giants took him 18th overall in 1982.

Butch's seven-year NFL career with the Giants, Oilers and Lions was underwhelming, but he was a nice guy and I even remember reaching out and touching him — literally.

The occasion was a Giants game after he retired and was in the Meadowlands pressbox. We said hello and got to talking. He told me about a rib injury that he suffered along the way that had left a reminder with him. I certainly believed him but he said, "Feel this here." Not in the habit of fondling athletes' ribcages, I was a little hesitant, but he took my hand and put it over his rib, which seemed to not be in the right place and made an angle that I had never known ribs to have.

It is hoped Andre doesn't need a similar laying on of hands some 20 years later. Here's to good football health for the latest Woolfolk of my acquaintance, and to the hope that he can delay that comic strip ambition for another couple of years.

Here is a chart showing the draft status of the five newest Jets: