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Ex-Jets QB O’Brien tutoring

INDIANAPOLIS — Mike Glennon already will have a Jets connection if Gang Green ends up drafting the North Carolina State quarterback this spring.

Glennon said Friday at the NFL scouting combine he’s being tutored by former Jets QB Ken O’Brien after meeting him last summer while attending ESPN’s Elite 11 competition for high-school passers.

The connection probably isn’t welcome news for Jets fans who recall O’Brien’s nine mostly underwhelming seasons in the 1980s and early ’90s, or that the team passed over Dan Marino to take O’Brien in the first round of arguably the greatest quarterback draft class of all time in 1983.

The 6-foot-7, 225-pound Glennon, though, said he is thriving under O’Brien’s tutelage and said he hopes it will lead to his first-round selection in April’s NFL Draft.

Could the team that takes Glennon be the Jets? Don’t be surprised if it happens, considering the Jets have openings at that position and already reached out to formally interview Glennon at the combine.

Glennon has a strong arm — which he plans to show off by throwing at the combine — and a leg up on the rest of an unimpressive QB class after running a pro-style offense in college. But scouts continue to shudder at his stick-figure frame.

“I’ve been trying to put on weight, but I haven’t been very successful,” Glennon said.

One scout told The Post yesterday Glennon needs to add a minimum of 20 pounds.

“He’s just not going to last very long in our league at that weight,” the scout said.

* The NFL leaked details this week of a plan to string out the offseason schedule so that there would be one “big-news event” per month, but don’t look for that to happen anytime soon — if ever.

Sources within the players’ union immediately said they wouldn’t agree to the changes, in large part because it would push back the start of free agency by a month.

The NFLPA has to sign off on any major changes to the league calendar as part of the collective bargaining agreement, and it appears that won’t be happening in this case.

* Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was amused by the Richard ShermanDarrelle Revis Twitter feud but said he doesn’t think Sherman’s boasts about being the best cornerback in football are a laughing matter.

“He’s having fun playing with the whole thing,” Carroll said. “And he had a tremendous season and a very, very good last season, so he’s got something to stand on right now. It’s better than when he used to talk when he didn’t.”

Added Carroll: “I’ve never known how you scale the very best corner, you know, but he’s up there in consideration.”

* Manti Te’o will face the media in a group setting Saturday for the first time since the Notre Dame linebacker’s fake-girlfriend controversy erupted . Players at the combine have the choice whether to speak to reporters, and combine organizer Gil Brandt said Te’o told him he is eager to get it over with.

* Rutgers tight end D.C. Jefferson might have been the victim of a bad break yesterday when he injured his biceps just three repetitions into the bench press.

Jefferson was taken to a local hospital Friday night to be examined, with the fear he had torn the pectoral muscle just two months before the draft.