1. The great QB search: The Jets have entrusted a former quarterback with the job of finding of their post-Aaron Rodgers quarterback.

We’re talking about general manager Darren Mougey, 39, who learned the position from his late father (a former Southern Illinois QB), became a three-star recruit in Scottsdale, Arizona, and played quarterback for two seasons at San Diego State. In high school, he trained one summer with former NFL star Donovan McNabb, who called him “Sunshine” because of his blond hair — a reference to the quarterback in the movie “Remember the Titans.”

Whether it’s this offseason or next, Mougey is expected to address the team’s long-term quarterback issue. His predecessor, Joe Douglas, faced the same challenge, as did his predecessor and the guy before him and … well, you get the point about the Jets’ QB history. None of their previous GMs fixed the problem, one of the main reasons they haven’t reached the Super Bowl since the 1968 season.

“Obviously, it’s important,” said Mougey, who backed up current Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell at San Diego State before switching to wide receiver. “We’re going to have a lot of dialogue and conversation about the quarterback position, and we’ll explore and exhaust every option.”

His positional expertise should help, but there are no guarantees in the business of player acquisition. Mougey knows this all too well. He came from an organization that struck out for years in trying to find a successor to Peyton Manning, who retired after leading the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl in the 2015 season. Mougey was a scout at the time.

By 2020, he had been promoted to the front office. From 2016 to 2022, the Broncos failed with high draft picks (Paxton Lynch and Drew Lock), bad trades (Russell Wilson and Joe Flacco) and a bad free agent signing (Case Keenum). It’s no wonder they had an eight-year postseason drought.

They also passed on Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen with the fifth overall pick in the 2018 draft. He was right under Mougey’s nose. Allen came out of Wyoming that year and Mougey was the Western regional scout. Of course, that decision — along with the others — belonged to then-GM John Elway, one of the best quarterbacks to ever play.

An inexact science, indeed.

They finally found what looks like will be a promising answer in 2024 first-round pick Bo Nix, handpicked by coach Sean Payton.

“We’ve kind of done it every way — trade for a guy, draft a guy, draft another guy,” Mougey said of his Denver years. “I learned a lot. I learned a lot that I’m going to take with me to this situation here.”