Armagedon day has come early for Gang

In what was already looking like a disastrous season, the Jets have brought Armageddon upon themselves in the form of Armagedon Draughn.

Draughn, a 6-foot-4, 195-pound defensive back, was released this summer by the Ottawa Redblack of the Canadian Football League.

To make room for the safety, the Jets released defensive lineman Devon Still, who was thrust into the spotlight in 2014 after his daughter, Leah, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer and the Bengals signed him to the practice squad days after cutting him so he would have health insurance to cover Leah’s medical expenses.

Coach Todd Bowles said Still was cut because “we needed another corner with some legs.”

Yeah, yeah, Kony Ealy had a great effort for the Panthers against the eventual champ Broncos in Super Bowl L. But let it go, OK? People still bring it up. “More often than they should,” said the 6-4, 275-pound defensive end who the Jets grabbed on waivers after he was let go by the Patriots. “That’s two years ago. I’m ready to move forward and start my path from here.”

And that path, all concerned hope, starts with his ability as a rusher.

“It’s hard to let good pass rushers go. We wanted to see for ourselves what we had in him,” said Bowles, noting that Ealy, a cousin of Sheldon Richardson, will be outside in the 3-4. “He’s a 4-3 defensive end but we play a lot of sub packages so he’ll have a lot of places to play in that.”

The Patriots traded for Ealy in March, but it just didn’t work out.

“What I do and what I’m capable of doing and their defense, it just didn’t fit obviously,” said Ealy, who hopes to do a cram course to fit in for Thursday’s preseason finale against Philadelphia. His cousin can help with that. “Great having him here, playing with him before rekindling old college things,” said Richardson, who was Ealy’s college teammate for a bit at Missouri.

The Jets made several other roster moves. They traded for a long snapper, Thomas Hennessy, acquiring him from the Colts for safety Ronald Martin. Tanner Purdum, the incumbent long snapper, is the longest tenured Jet but has suffered some hiccups in preseason.

“We want more competition at the longsnapper position,” Bowles said.