Christian Hackenberg’s playing days may be over, but the Jets draft bust isn’t done with the sport.
The former Penn State star and Jets second-round pick is joining Winslow Township High School (N.J.) as its quarterbacks coach, the school announced on Twitter on Wednesday, at the age of 26.
Christian Hackenberg at a 2018 Jets practice Bill KostrounThe Jets took Hackenberg 51st overall in the 2016 draft, but he struggled as a pro, failing to appear in a regular season game in 2016 and 2017.
The Jets dealt Hackenberg to the Raiders in May of 2018 for a conditional seventh-round pick. The Raiders released him that June. He did get two more shots, with the Eagles and Bengals, but didn’t last long at either place.
He tried to make a comeback in the AAF, which has been since shut down, but he lost his spot after three games with the Memphis Express.
Now he’s getting into coaching — sooner than anyone could’ve expected.
