PHOENIX — While most people are talking about the North Carolina basketball team, the Jets are spending some time with a member of the North Carolina football team — quarterback Mitchell Trubisky.

The Jets will travel to Chapel Hill for a private workout with Trubisky on Thursday, The Post has learned. Trubisky is considered by many to be the top quarterback in next month’s NFL Draft. The Jets hold the No. 6 pick and have been open about the possibility of selecting a quarterback.

The Trubisky workout will be their third with a top quarterback in the draft. They already held private workouts with Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Notre Dame’s DeShone Kizer, according to a source. Kizer confirmed he worked out for the Jets at his pro day. The Jets also plan on having the quarterbacks take pre-draft visits to their Florham Park headquarters to spend more time with them.

The Jets attended all three of the quarterbacks’ pro days with at least scouts, but wanted to probe deeper with workouts. Private workouts have gained popularity with teams, though, because pro days have become scripted events in which the quarterbacks control the types of throws they make. The teams dictate the private workouts and can have a quarterback make the types of throws they have questions about.

If the Jets draft a quarterback at No. 6, it will be a seismic move. They have drafted quarterbacks in each of the past four drafts, but Geno Smith (2013, second round) and Tajh Boyd (2014, sixth round) are no longer on the roster. Bryce Petty (2015, fourth round) and Christian Hackenberg (2016, second round) are going to compete with veteran Josh McCown for the starting job, Jets coach Todd Bowles announced Tuesday. If the Jets draft Trubisky, Watson or Kizer, it would completely change the dynamics of the team’s quarterback situation. The Jets have not taken a quarterback in the first round since Mark Sanchez in 2009.

“You never say never,” Bowles said Tuesday about drafting a quarterback at No. 6. “We want to take the best player depending on how it falls at six. There could be a quarterback there that we want. There could be somebody else that we want. You have to see how the draft falls. You can never take enough good players. We’re not ruling them out, but we’re not ruling them in either.”

Trubisky’s stock has been on the rise since the end of the college season. The biggest concern teams have about him is why it took him so long to get on the field at North Carolina. He had to wait two years behind Marquise Williams before becoming a starter in 2016. He only made 13 starts in college, giving teams a limited amount of game tape to study.

At 6-foot-2 and with an ability to pass and run, Trubisky has the tools. He completed 68 percent of his passes in 2016 and threw 30 touchdowns and just six interceptions. He also ran for 308 yards and five touchdowns. Like many college quarterbacks, he operated almost exclusively from the shotgun. NFL teams are going to want to see him take snaps from center and drop back.

The quarterback decision is a critical one for general manager Mike Maccagnan and Bowles in their third season with the Jets. There is a school of thought that they can’t take a quarterback at No. 6 without being sure that QB is a Day 1 starter because there are so many holes on their roster. It also would be a damning statement about Hackenberg, who has not even gotten a chance to play. The flip side of the argument: If you think a quarterback can play, you draft him. You keep taking them until you get the right one.

The Jets have been searching for the next Joe Namath for 40 years. The search continues Thursday in Chapel Hill.