With the 2025 NFL Draft less than a week away, the Jets are set to add youth to an already young roster. They currently own eight draft picks -- single picks in Rounds 1 (No. 7 overall), 2 (No. 42 overall), 3 (No. 73 overall) and 4 (No. 110), plus pairs in Rounds 5 (No. 154 and No. 162) and 6 (No. 186 and No. 207).

"It's a young man's game," said first-year HC Aaron Glenn at the NFL Annual League Meeting last month. "I was always taught that you can't be afraid of the young players. I think what you're able to do, you're able to mold these guys into who you want them to be and what kind of a team you want to be."

In free agency, the Jets brought in 15 new players with the headliner being QB Justin Fields. When the draft commences next Thursday, the Jets are scheduled to go on the clock with the No. 7 overall pick before 9 p.m. EDT.

"It's wide open right now," GM Darren Mougey told reporters in Palm Beach, FL. "I mean, like I said, we're going to really dive into that next week when we get back and for the entire month, but I feel good about the options that could be there at seven right now."

It's the time of year when need and best player available are debated throughout the league.

"That's what we always want to do is get the best player, and hopefully that player can fit a need for us," Glenn said. "But I think for what we try to do is make sure we try to align ourselves with who are the best guys we can draft that will help us be the best team that we can be, and we try to create that as much as possible, just get as many good players as we can, and let us as a staff try to figure out what to do with them."

Everything will be on the table as Mougey and Glenn embark on their first draft with the Green & White. But CBS Sports analyst Leger Douzable and NFL Network's Brian Baldinger believe it's unlikely the Jets will move up in Round 1.

"I don't see a scenario where the Jets potentially want to move up." Douzable said on "Jets Overtime: NFL Mock Draft Special." "Usually, teams that want to move up in the top 10 are looking for a quarterback. They signed Justin Fields to a two-year deal -- they're going to give him every opportunity to be the future quarterback for the New York Jets."

While the Browns and the Giants could be looking to add quarterbacks, they may use the No. 2 and No. 3 overall selections on Colorado playmaker Travis Hunter and Penn State edge Abdul Carter, respectively. Most pundits believe the Patriots will take an offensive lineman at No. 4 and the Pats will be followed by the Jaguars (No. 5), the Raiders (No. 6) and the Jets (No. 7).

"You have to have the conversation, but who are you going up for," Baldinger said. "Who are you making sure that you get that Jacksonville may take or somebody else might jump in front. You have to do all your diligence, your due diligence on what people want but who is that player that somebody wants to get to. Who do the Jets want to get to 5 for, that's the question."

If the Jets stay at No. 7, most prognosticators believe they'll target a T, DT or Penn State TE Tyler Warren. Michigan's Mason Graham is expected to be a top 10 pick and might hear his name called in the top five.

"This is probably one of the deepest defensive tackle classes we've seen in the last 20 years, so you have to weigh that option when you're talking about Mason Graham," said Douzable. "How much better do you see Mason Graham being than Walter Nolen or some of these other guys, Kenneth Grant, and are you willing to give up future draft capital to move up. Right now, I don't think the Jets are in that ballpark just because this is a deep defensive tackle class."

While the Jets could entertain offers to trade down, not all first-round picks are the same.

"I think there is a lot of depth to this draft especially at the running back and defensive line positions," Baldinger said. "I think when you are looking at the great players, the players when you are talking about perennial Pro Bowl players, I don't know if there is more than 10 or 12 of those players in this draft. And if you are in position to take one that really helps your team in whatever capacity that is, I don't think you pass that up in this draft."

The Saints own the No. 9 overall selection and they could be on the QB hunt early next weekend. If they have locked in on a target, they could potentially look to move up as well.

"The Jets were in this scenario I believe last year when they were at the No. 10 spot and the Minnesota Vikings moved up one spot to get J.J. McCarthy because the Jets were fielding calls," Douzable said of a different leadership team electing to move back one spot and take Penn State T Olu Fashanu. "To Baldy's point, if you have a guy you really covet and are in love with, you take him at the No. 7 spot. But when you look at your draft board and there are two guys that you probably have an equal grade and you can get one of those guys at 9, then you see what it would take for the Saints to come up to the No. 7 spot and what you would get in return. If it makes a lot of sense, you pull the trigger on the trade. But if there is somebody you truly covet, then you stay at the No. 7 spot."