What's green and white and has 34 legs?
A caterpillar?
No, the answer is the New York Jets' receiving corps.
The Jets did it again on Monday, signing yet another wide receiver -- Charles Johnson. It brings their total to 17 receivers on the 86-man roster, which is rather mind boggling.
The average team has nine, according to updated depth charts posted by Ourlads. The New York Giants are a distant second at 13.
The Jets have enough receivers to start their own NBA team.
They have enough for every syllable in a Haiku poem (17).
The goal is to create competition at the position, but the Jets have taken it to the nth degree. Maybe they're planning to install a run-and-shoot offense. (Kidding. I think.) There is a highly-technical name for their unique approach at the position:
Throwing mud at the wall and hoping some of it stick. Only three of them have more than 100 career receptions -- Andre Roberts (244), Jermaine Kearse (218) and Robby Anderson (105).
Only five are former Jets draft picks -- Quincy Enunwa, Chad Hansen, Charone Peake, Devin Smith and ArDarius Stewart.
Three are free-agent additions -- Terrelle Pryor, Roberts and Johnson.
Some are lesser-known holdovers -- Jalin Marshall, JoJo Natson, Lucky Whitehead, Tre McBride, Brisly Estime, Damore'ea Stringfellow and Daniel Williams.
By the season opener, the Jets will be down to five or six receivers (did someone say seven?). There isn't a proven No. 1 receiver among the group, which has to be disconcerting. One thing appears certain: They may need extra chairs in the receiver room when the offseason program begins next Monday.
