This is starting to be like fantasy fooball with all the trade possibilities. Vilma going here, Robertson going there, Rogers or Kris Jenkins coming to the Jets. Crazy stuff. And that doesn't even account for the free agency period that opens in a few hours.
For almost a week there have been rumors of a three-way deal between the Jets, Broncos and Lions in which the Jets get Rogers, the Broncos get Robertson and the Lions get Domonique Foxworth (plus a few draft picks sprinkled in to grout the gaps). But the Lions' interest in Jon Vilma may kill that plan. If the Jets can get their guy Rogers for Vilma, then they can move Robertson to a defensive end position as we proposed here last night. They'd still have to rework his contract, of course, but I think he'd be happy to stay and play at a more productive position. And if the Panthers are interested in Vilma and send Jenkins to the Jets, the same thinking may apply. Suddenly Robertson, who was being shopped in trades but unlike Vilma wasn't given permission to shop his own trade and therefore hadn't been essentially given up on, becomes a valuable commodity for the Jets.
Of course the Jets already have Shaun Ellis at DE, so moving Robertson there would force the Big Cat to an outside LB position. So maybe they unload Robertson for a bunch of picks anyway and keep Ellis and Kenyon Coleman at the ends.
Either way, if the Jets can get a prototype defensive tackle for the 3-4 scheme for either Vilma or Robertson, two players who were miscast in the system, they should do it.
The only guy who'd be upset by it would probably be Nick Mangold, who'd have to push around 340 pounds or so of defensive lineman in every practice. But I'm sure he wouldn't mind it come Sundays.
(UPDATE: I get a D in spelling because Shaun Rogers doesn't have a D in his name. My apologies and thanks to Jeff W. for the head's up!)