Team captains that NY Jets GM Joe Douglas could target in 2022 draft

Identifying the 2022 NFL draft’s team captains

He’s only completed two drafts as the lead decision-maker in Florham Park, but New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas is already well-known for having a strong tendency to draft team captains.

Douglas selected 10 team captains across his first two drafts, acquiring five of them in each draft:

2021: Zach Wilson, Alijah Vera-Tucker, Michael Carter, Michael Carter II, Jonathan Marshall
2020: La’Mical Perine, James Morgan, Cameron Clark, Bryce Hall, Braden Mann

With Douglas having made 19 selections between the 2020 and 2021 drafts, that means over half of his picks (52.6%) were team captains in college.

Of course, that brings us to this question: which players in the 2022 draft class were team captains?

I scoured through nearly 200 of the draft’s best prospects and noted which of them were captains for their college squads.

Keep in mind that it requires a lot of research to figure out whether a player was a team captain. There isn’t one place on the internet where this information can be easily located for any given player. I gave my absolute best effort to dig as deep as I could for each player, but it’s possible I missed one, so if you notice anything amiss, feel free to let me know.

Listed below are the 192 non-quarterback prospects ranked within the top-200 of NFL Mock Draft Database’s consensus big board (as of April 15, 2022) and an indicator of whether or not they were a team captain.

Board Rank	Player	Position	School	Captain?
1	Aidan Hutchinson	EDGE	Michigan	Yes
2	Evan Neal	OT	Alabama	Yes
3	Kayvon Thibodeaux	EDGE	Oregon	No
4	Ikem Ekwonu	OT	NC State	No
5	Travon Walker	EDGE	Georgia	No
6	Sauce Gardner	CB	Cincinnati	No
7	Kyle Hamilton	S	Notre Dame	Yes
8	Charles Cross	OT	Mississippi State	No
9	Garrett Wilson	WR	Ohio State	No
10	Derek Stingley	CB	LSU	No
12	Jermaine Johnson	EDGE	Florida State	No
13	Drake London	WR	USC	Yes
14	Jordan Davis	DT	Georgia	Yes
15	Jameson Williams	WR	Alabama	No
17	Chris Olave	WR	Ohio State	Yes
18	Trevor Penning	OT	Northern Iowa	No
19	George Karlaftis	EDGE	Purdue	No
20	Devin Lloyd	LB	Utah	Yes
21	Trent McDuffie	CB	Washington	No
22	Treylon Burks	WR	Arkansas	No
23	Tyler Linderbaum	IOL	Iowa	Yes
24	Andrew Booth	CB	Clemson	No
25	Devonte Wyatt	DT	Georgia	No
26	Nakobe Dean	LB	Georgia	Yes
27	Kenyon Green	IOL	Texas A&M	Yes
28	Zion Johnson	IOL	Boston College	Yes
29	Kaiir Elam	CB	Florida	No
30	Jahan Dotson	WR	Penn State	No
31	Daxton Hill	S	Michigan	No
32	David Ojabo	EDGE	Michigan	No
33	Boye Mafe	EDGE	Minnesota	No
35	Lewis Cine	S	Georgia	No
36	Breece Hall	RB	Iowa State	Yes
38	Roger McCreary	CB	Auburn	No
39	Bernhard Raimann	OT	Central Michigan	No
40	Kyler Gordon	CB	Washington	No
41	Logan Hall	DT	Houston	No
42	Arnold Ebiketie	EDGE	Penn State	No
43	Travis Jones	DT	Connecticut	Yes
44	Tyler Smith	OT	Tulsa	No
45	Jalen Pitre	S	Baylor	No
46	Kenneth Walker	RB	Michigan State	No
47	Christian Watson	WR	North Dakota State	No
48	DeMarvin Leal	DT	Texas A&M	No
49	Quay Walker	LB	Georgia	No
50	Perrion Winfrey	DT	Oklahoma	No
51	Christian Harris	LB	Alabama	No
52	Jaquan Brisker	S	Penn State	Yes
53	Trey McBride	TE	Colorado State	Yes
54	George Pickens	WR	Georgia	No
55	Skyy Moore	WR	Western Michigan	No
56	Daniel Faalele	OT	Minnesota	Yes
58	Drake Jackson	EDGE	USC	No
59	Isaiah Spiller	RB	Texas A&M	No
60	John Metchie	WR	Alabama	No
61	Nik Bonitto	EDGE	Oklahoma	No
62	Leo Chenal	LB	Wisconsin	No
63	Nicholas Petit-Frere	OT	Ohio State	No
64	Cameron Thomas	EDGE	San Diego State	No
65	Chad Muma	LB	Wyoming	Yes
66	Kingsley Enagbare	EDGE	South Carolina	Yes
67	Phidarian Mathis	DT	Alabama	Yes
68	Darian Kinnard	OT	Kentucky	No
69	Wan'Dale Robinson	WR	Kentucky	No
70	David Bell	WR	Purdue	No
71	Jamaree Salyer	IOL	Georgia	Yes
72	Tariq Woolen	CB	UTSA	No
73	Dylan Parham	IOL	Memphis	No
74	Calvin Austin	WR	Memphis	No
75	Alec Pierce	WR	Cincinnati	Yes
76	Troy Andersen	LB	Montana State	Yes
77	Isaiah Likely	TE	Coastal Carolina	No
78	Jeremy Ruckert	TE	Ohio State	No
79	Martin Emerson	CB	Texas A&M	No
80	Myjai Sanders	EDGE	Cincinnati	Yes
81	Sean Rhyan	IOL	UCLA	No
82	Jalen Tolbert	WR	South Alabama	No
84	Abraham Lucas	OT	Washington State	No
85	Greg Dulcich	TE	UCLA	No
86	Cole Strange	IOL	Chattanooga	No
87	Channing Tindall	LB	Georgia	No
88	Brian Robinson	RB	Alabama	No
89	Rasheed Walker	EDGE	Penn State	Yes
90	Sam Williams	EDGE	Mississippi	No
91	Kerby Joseph	S	Illinois	No
92	Justyn Ross	WR	Clemson	Yes
93	Coby Bryant	CB	Cincinnati	Yes
94	Brandon Smith	LB	Penn State	No
95	Khalil Shakir	WR	Boise State	Yes
96	James Cook	RB	Georgia	No
97	Ed Ingram	IOL	LSU	No
98	Marcus Jones	CB	Houston	Yes
99	Josh Paschal	EDGE	Kentucky	Yes
100	Damone Clark	LB	LSU	Yes
101	Cade Otton	TE	Washington	No
102	Derion Kendrick	LB	Georgia	No
103	Dameon Pierce	RB	Florida	No
104	Bryan Cook	S	Cincinnati	Yes
105	Rachaad White	RB	Arizona State	No
106	Jelani Woods	TE	Virginia	No
107	Darrian Beavers	LB	Cincinnati	No
108	Nick Cross	S	Maryland	No
109	Jalyn Armour-Davis	CB	Alabama	No
110	Brian Asamoah II	LB	Oklahoma	No
111	Mario Goodrich	CB	Clemson	Yes
112	Max Mitchell	OT	Louisiana-Lafayette	No
113	Tyler Allgeier	RB	BYU	No
114	Cam Taylor-Britt	CB	Nebraska	Yes
115	Kyren Williams	RB	Notre Dame	Yes
116	Alontae Taylor	CB	Tennessee	No
117	Verone McKinley	S	Oregon	No
118	Cameron Jurgens	IOL	Nebraska	No
119	Kellen Diesch	OT	Arizona State	No
120	Zamir White	RB	Georgia	Yes
121	Luke Fortner	IOL	Kentucky	Yes
122	Josh Jobe	CB	Alabama	No
123	Zyon McCollum	CB	Sam Houston State	Yes
124	JoJo Domann	LB	Nebraska	No
125	Zachary Carter	DT	Florida	No
126	Velus Jones	CB	Tenenssee	No
127	Terrel Bernard	LB	Baylor	Yes
128	DeAngelo Malone	EDGE	Western Kentucky	No
129	Marquis Hayes	IOL	Oklahoma	No
130	Danny Gray	WR	SMU	No
131	Dominique Robinson	EDGE	Miami (OH)	No
132	Jerome Ford	RB	Cincinnati	No
133	Akayleb Evans	CB	Missouri	No
134	Romeo Doubs	WR	Nevada	No
135	Jalen Wydermyer	TE	Texas A&M	No
136	Charlie Kolar	TE	Iowa State	Yes
137	Micheal Clemons	EDGE	Texas A&M	Yes
138	Luke Goedeke	OT	Central Michigan	No
139	Alex Wright	EDGE	UAB	No
140	Neil Farrell Jr.	DT	LSU	No
141	Matthew Butler	DT	Tennessee	No
142	Pierre Strong Jr.	RB	South Dakota State	Yes
143	Zach Tom	OT	Wake Forest	No
144	Tariq Castro-Fields	CB	Penn State	No
145	Jake Ferguson	TE	Wisconsin	No
146	Tyquan Thornton	CB	Baylor	No
147	Haskell Garrett	DT	Ohio State	Yes
148	Tyreke Smith	EDGE	Ohio State	No
149	John Ridgeway	DT	Arkansas	No
150	Thayer Munford	IOL	Ohio State	Yes
151	Damarri Mathis	CB	Pittsburgh	No
152	Tyler Badie	RB	Missouri	No
154	Mykael Wright	CB	Oregon	No
155	Isaiah Thomas	EDGE	Oklahoma	No
156	Bo Melton	WR	Rutgers	Yes
157	Joshua Williams	WR	Fayetteville State	No
158	Kyle Philips	WR	UCLA	No
159	Dohnovan West	IOL	Arizona State	No
160	Hassan Haskins	RB	Michigan	No
161	Tycen Anderson	S	Toledo	Yes
162	Jesse Luketa	LB	Penn State	No
163	Braxton Jones	OT	Southern Utah	No
164	Alec Lindstrom	IOL	Boston College	Yes
165	J.T. Woods	S	Baylor	No
167	Lecitus Smith	IOL	Virginia Tech	No
168	Justin Shaffer	IOL	Georgia	No
169	Otito Ogbonnia	DT	UCLA	No
170	Chris Paul	IOL	Tulsa	Yes
171	Cole Turner	TE	Nevada	No
172	Amare Barno	EDGE	Virginia Tech	No
173	Dare Rosenthal	OT	Kentucky	No
174	Daniel Bellinger	TE	San Diego State	Yes
175	Thomas Booker	DT	Stanford	Yes
176	Kalon Barnes	CB	Baylor	No
177	Grant Calcaterra	TE	SMU	Yes
178	Chigoziem Okonkwo	TE	Maryland	No
179	Zakoby McClain	LB	Auburn	No
180	Leon O'Neal Jr.	S	Texas A&M	No
181	D'vonte Price	RB	Florida International	No
182	Erik Ezukanma	WR	Texas Tech	Yes
183	Matt Waletzko	OT	North Dakota	Yes
184	Markquese Bell	S	Florida A&M	No
185	Andrew Stueber	OT	Michigan	No
186	Cordale Flott	CB	LSU	No
187	Logan Bruss	IOL	Wisconsin	No
188	Jaylen Watson	CB	Washington State	No
189	Spencer Buford	OT	UTSA	No
190	Abram Smith	RB	Baylor	No
191	Jeffrey Gunter	EDGE	Coastal Carolina	No
192	Sterling Weatherford	S	Miami (OH)	No
193	Tyler Goodson	RB	Iowa	No
194	Yusuf Corker	S	Kentucky	Yes
195	Christopher Hinton	DT	Michigan	No
196	Chasen Hines	IOL	LSU	No
197	Cade Mays	IOL	Tennessee	No
198	Ty Chandler	RB	North Carolina	No
199	Sincere McCormick	RB	UTSA	No
200	Joshua Ezeudu	IOL	North Carolina	No

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Of the 192 players in the table, only 50 were team captains, a 26.0% portion. That’s less than half of Douglas’ 52.6% rate of team captain selections. This makes it clear that Douglas’ affinity for captains is certainly much stronger than the league average.

Look for Douglas to snag at least a couple of the team captains listed above.

Identifying the 2022 NFL draft’s team captains

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