Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News conducted an informal poll of the New York Jets' locker room about the team's back-up quarterback position, and the results show that an "overwhelming majority" favored Kellen Clemens over a more experienced passer like Mark Brunell.

"Brunell? Isn't he like 50 years old?" one player said.

Another said he "didn't even know Brunell was still in the league until we played them last year,", Mehta reports.

Brunell, who spent the last two seasons as Drew Brees' backup quarterback in New Orleans--which explains his anonymity--has been linked to the Jets since early April. Because of the "Final Eight" plan of the uncapped season, the Jets haven't been free to add players at will this off-season.

The Jets are expected to sign Brunell prior to the 2010 training camp.

Jets tight end Dustin Keller was willing to go on the record in his support of Clemens.

"Nobody knows this offense as well as Kellen," Keller said. "If anything would ever happen to Mark, we know we have a solid guy that will go in there and knows all the checks. He doesn’t have to get all the reps (in practice) to learn this stuff, because he already knows everything."