Jordan Palmer sees the future in Sam Darnold and he believes the Jets rookie passer won a lottery of sorts when he was selected by the Green & White with the third overall selection in the draft.

The 33-year-old Palmer, who was a member of six NFL teams from 2007-14, is a quarterback consultant who trained Darnold for three months this spring in Southern California. One of the key points of emphasis during their time together was making Darnold left-hand dominant, so keeping two hands on the football would become second nature.

"With Sam, very simply, we just made him hold onto the ball with his left hand all the time," Palmer said on the latest installment of The Official Jets Podcast. "It sounds pretty oversimplified and it is, but it's really any time somebody gets comfortable with having one hand on the ball all the time, we try to isolate that. With Sam, I think it helped. But honestly it's going to come down to the coaching staff and him making it a point of emphasis as he starts his rookie year and I don't really see it being an issue."

While ball security will remain paramount as Darnold makes his transition from the college ranks to the pros, Palmer contends his playmaking ability will make him a winner on Sundays.

"He also took one hand off the ball and ran around and made some amazing plays," he said of Darnold's two years starting at USC. "You don't want him to lose that edge and so I think it's just going to be him managing and minimizing that risk/reward of how he carries the ball in the pocket because I think the future of the quarterback position is the quarterback's ability to create time and space, to buy more time in the pocket."