TJB Hall of Fame: Aaron Glenn

When honoring Aaron Glenn’s career with the New York Jets, fans should also walk away with a new understanding of professional football and — most importantly — life. Forget every cliché about size and how big a man must be for a successful NFL career, because talent knows no size; and don’t hurry to apply the ‘bust’ label to a man’s name, because every set back is also a learning opportunity. In the end, your first impression could be terribly wrong. The Jets, holding the 13th pick in the 1994 NFL Draft, shuffled the board slightly when then-general manager Dick Steinberg sent a fifth-round pick to New Orleans and swapped places with the Saints for the rights to select Glenn, from Texas A&M, 12th overall. When pre-draft speculation had the Jets targeting a wide receiver, the team instead went with the player who possessed the skills to cover them well. Instincts are, sometimes, everything. Glenn played the first eight seasons of his 15-year career ...